High Maintenance Mom

One of the highlights for me this year in the card giving area is the ability to make collage cards from Shutterfly.com. We have a hard time getting a picture of the whole family so it's nice to be able to include separate pictures of the boys doing things they like to do - smiling as a family apparently isn't a highlight for them...

I've also started including stories from the boys in our holiday letter - they take up space and are often much more humorous than something I could write. Here's N's favorite, "Once upon a time there was a truck carrying a broken track. The End.” We went through about a week where he told his story several times a day in the car.

Here's the one he came up with when I was writing our holiday letter. N’s story: “I’m going to tell you, once upon a time a fire truck carried a firefighter to a fire and gets out the hose and connects to the fire hydrant and sprays like this spssssss spsssss and they get out of the house. Here’s a screwdriver (holding a screwdriver) here’s the other screwdriver (holding another smaller screwdriver). And the hook and ladder truck comes and the pumper truck brings out all the hoses. Here’s another screwdriver. It fell down (as he drops one of the screwdrivers). Then the fire truck driver goes back to the fire station and he hangs all the tools up on the hooks in the fire station and he goes to sleep. Then the firefighter wakes up and goes to the next fire.”

And here's B's story from yesterday after getting a book from a friend about magical beasts: "I’m going to do a scary one about knights fighting stuff. Once there was a palace with princess, kings, and queens and knights ruled outside and there were lots of archers. Because they lived in the land of magical monsters and unicorns. There were lots of unicorns and griffins, and wolves, and dragons, and trolls, and lots of fairies and stuff like that. And they always ran up to the walls trying to get the princesses. That’s because the princess had lots of precious jewels and they wanted the jewels. So they forced the unicorns to go and get the princess and get the jewels and come back and give them to the monsters. And soon all the monsters were yelling at the gods to get a sea monster. And the gods were trying to make something that would force the sea monster to go and get the jewels and take them back across the sea and ocean. And tear the city up because they lived on the other side. That was their place. And now it was called the city of ruins. They’ve tried to get the jewels back but it’s no good because they guard their caves or their lairs where the jewels are. And they each have a unicorn to charge them if they got in. And there were two dragons, one wolf, one griffin, and a big angry troll.”

Happy Holidays!

(See the Holiday cards post from last year) that talks about storing cards from one year to organize card giving for the next year.