Molly And My Necklace

At the beginning of the year I gave myself and the girls "mommy and me" necklaces. You can read about the necklaces here. Well, for whatever reason I always kept these necklaces on a silverware holder that sits on my stove. It wasn't the most ideal place for them, but it was a place I saw every morning and knew I'd remember to put them on.

One night Molly, who had not had the best day (she's 3 1/2.......), picked up my necklace and dropped it down an opening on the stove. I realized what she had done and was so upset by this. I didn't know if we'd be able to get it out and Ross wasn't home at the time to help me. Then it got worse when Lucy found out what had happened! Lucy is an emotional little girl and this greatly upset her, resulting in sobbing tears.

Thankfully, that night Ross was able to pull out the stove/oven and retrieve my necklace. I was so happy he was able to do this. I know I could have bought another one, but this necklace has grown to mean so much to me. :)

Trading School Pictures

Lucy and Molly both had school pictures taken this past fall. The package I ordered for Lucy's pictures had some 5x7s, wallet sizes, and maybe a 1 1/2x2 picture size that came with 20 pictures. I couldn't figure out why anyone would want to order so many pictures of this small size, but thought whatever, I'll go with it. It wasn't until Lucy came home from school about a week after all the pictures went home that I realized what that size was for: trading pictures with friends! She had a picture of one of her friends from school in her backpack and it just made me smile! I remembered all the times as a kid that I traded pictures with friends at school and was fun to think of Lucy doing this now. I wrote her name on the back of each picture and sent them with her to school to give out to her friends. I so wish I could have been in the room to see this process unfold! I wonder if she just gave the pictures to her friends or asked if they wanted a picture. And I'm betting she didn't fully understand why she was doing so, too! Elementary school..........

Molly's "Artwork"

I've shared lots of posts about Molly's artwork and the places she likes to do her artwork the last few years. Here's another of those posts to add to my archives.

We discovered Molly colored on our wooden window seat in the family room and I'm pretty sure she did so with a non-washable marker. I tried to clean it off  and a little did come off, but there's still a lot of work left to do on it. We do so love Molly..........

Advent Calendar

We did an advent calendar with the girls this Christmas season and it turned out to be a very good experience. A friend told me about this calendar and I decided to give it a shot. It was pretty neat and I'm glad we did it. I has a 3-D tree that unfolds and each day you read a small devotional and put an ornament on the tree. It basically tells the lineage of Jesus and gives a short synopsis of the whole Old Testament leading up to Jesus' birth. The girls seemed to like it and did a good job paying attention for the most part. However, we did have some rough days where the devotional reading was interrupted with threats of taking toys away if they didn't pay attention, but nonetheless, we persevered and finished it!

Happy 2019!

Happy New Year! We had a very uneventful, yet fun, New Year's Eve last night. Ross had the day off work and he smoked a brisket all day so we had that for dinner. We also had potato soup and then got the girls ready for bed a little early so we could have a NYE dance party in our family room. We found some fun NYE countdown shows on Netflix and had a fun time with that. Then we just sat on the couch in our jammies and robes and watched the NYE shows on TV. We watched the New York ball drop at 11pm and called that our midnight and went to bed. We're old.........

Since 2013, I've taken a picture of Lucy, then Molly in 2015, sleeping before I went to bed on NYE and continued that tradition last night. I love these posts. :)