i want to share a quote i just read:
"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve.
Middle age is when you're forced to."
~ Bill Vaughn
i know for sure both of our kids would stay up to welcome the new year in. our hope {and dream!} is that they would both sleep until noon as a result!
we sure don't feel forced to stay up. so i'll guess that we are now officially in between youth and middle age....
keeping positive!
my GRAND PLANS for December fell quite short. we finally decorated our cookies {the ones we baked on Christmas Eve day} a few days ago.
Aidan has used icing before. and he knows how sprinkles work! now he is getting confident enough to use his skills for design. he had some very nicely decorated treats. although towards the end of his session i caught him licking the icing knife! thankfully no cookies were compromised...Kiara is new to all of this. it is tough for me to do the preparing and baking and keep an eye on TWO children. she gets the short end of the stick frequently. Aidan still needs a close eye. but Kiara still needs to be taught. which takes a lot of energy and time! i love the confidence...but she still needs to learn some skills. like....when you add the coloured sugar coating...you don't dump the container upside down and put ALL of the sugar on ONE cookie! maybe she likes over-sugared cookies? probably. that is her pink snowflake sugar cookie in the top left hand corner...
so nice to have Kristian at home and on holidays. i have had lots of extra time to do some odd jobs around the house. and i've had more time to work on my scrapbooking. that has been a treat! i've been doing some thinking on how i could rearrange some things upstairs to include a few of my scrapbook supplies and the kids creative work. they are both now at the age where it could become a rewarding experience for everyone. we may need to think about a storage space in the office and then have the basic stuff nearby. paints and glimmer mist does not need to come out every time...
Kristian knew what he was getting us into when he bought me the cricut. i love his support! all the snowflakes scattered were cut by the cricut. and so were those 2 pink swirls. the snowflakes are actually flowers....but i still think they can masquerade as snowflakes....or maybe that is frozen Canadian brain...we see more snowflakes than flowers in any year. i layered the snowflakes for added dimension. and i used some glimmer mists to add colour. all of those pieces were cut from white paper. yes, i am pleased with myself! i get a kick out of bragging to Kristian about what i have done. and he seems to also enjoy listening and feigning delight and surprise! truth be told he is probably relieved that i am using and enjoying his gift....
those photos were taken of them last year. pretty much one year ago to be exact! hopefully we'll have some more pleasant weather that will make skating more enjoyable. we went out yesterday to sled right across the street. boy were we cold. Kiara discovered this winter that we often have warm air blowing through the floor vents....her vent of choice is in the kitchen! you know she is freezing when she will sit their and let the air warm her up.
in my next post i'll do some reflecting on 2008 and my dreams for 2009.
for now....
Happy New Year!!
