It is at this time of year that I truly enjoy every second of everyday. I anticipate Christmas morning, I love to travel and see family and baking and cooking are my two favorite things. Along that line, I have been trying new recipes every night and coming across some wonderful meals, my hubby loves all the new things too and I enjoy sitting and going through all of my books and loose recipes, finding ones that I never tried. It's like a treasure hunt. Lately, we seem to be very busy and that is okay for now. Life is exciting, my calendar is full, I'm visiting with friends I haven't seen in awhile and eating until my heart is content...smiling big!
Brian started playing piano again and we are going to start practicing Christmas songs. We are actually planning our parents' Christmas gifts for next year. We are going to record a CD of Christmas music for each set of parents, Brian will play piano and sing and I will sing and we will have Hayden sing a song also(he can sing Jingle Bells really good!). Brian's friend knows how to do all the recording and has all of the studio equipment...I'm so nervous and excited at the same time!! Our first step is getting all of the sheet music, which Brian's mom has a lot of so I asked if I could make copies but she has no idea what it is for, she thinks we are just having fun at home singing and playing.
Exercising has been on the back burner for awhile, I go swimming but it isn't doing anything at this time with all that I'm eating...hehehee. Oh well, when I get motivated again, I'll start back into more. I haven't been able to get the kids outside much, it has been too darn windy and then Hayden doesn't like it because it's too cold and Vanessa hasn't been real thrilled outside either. Her snowsuit is letting in some moisture and I think because she has to sit the whole time, she starts to get wet and cold and fussy. Brian had them out for maybe a half hour and they wanted to come back in. I even ask the little boy that I babysit if he wants to go outside and play in the snow and he says no, it's too cold. It would be fine if we didn't have the wind, that just makes everyone more cold.
So, inside we have been but we are doing lots of crafts and puzzles, Hayden is helping alot with baking for our neighbors and he even helped his dad make dessert this past Sunday for a dinner we went to. I will also start taking them to the library more and more. Another big thing right now is Hayden is playing computer games and I am actually researching the little computer games from V-Tech and Leapfrog for my mom to get him for Christmas. I was even trying to find a toddler size computer and get him a desk and let him have computer time daily. He will be starting on the computer at school in January and he LOVES it, he begs everyday to play games. Nice thing is they have great games for his age on Noggin.com.
We have two projects we are going to start working on also, one is a mailbox for outside of his bedroom where he can put mail (drawings) for Mom and Dad and we can put mail for him and the other is a birdhouse we are painting for Spring...I figured after the holiday we can start those. So the holiday season for me started back at Thanksgiving and I am real thankful for everything good that we have happening in our lives...I think we may have actually found the church we want to attend, the pastor's wife is a pastor also and she came and spoke at MOPS and I felt such a connection to her speaking, she was so inspirational and FUNNY...Gotta love a funny pastor!
I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! One sad thing that happened is one of my all time favorite singers died recently and he did one of my favorite songs called "Olde Lang Syne" and I've been hearing it a lot played on the radio, probably because of his passing and it was one of his biggest hits, but I always loved the storyline to the song and wondered if it really happened. I went online the day he passed away and there was the news coverage of his death and I read the article and it had a link to his website so I went on and he died from Prostate cancer and actually had a message on his website for men to start checking when they are 40 for early detection and I thought it was a great message, almost was haunting like he knew he was not going to make it.
Well, long story short, you could click on a FAQ'S and fans asked him questions and the first question was about that song and if it had really happened and sure enough it DID really happen. I smiled from ear to ear because all of these years I have loved that song and wondered and it has such a magic to it. It's sad that it took me all this time and his death to research that because it would have been neat to write him and tell him how I felt about it. I don't know what it is about the song, maybe I wonder about the woman herself and if she regretted not being with him. It was like a short story that I just loved the very first time I heard it when I was just a kid. He will be missed, I'm sure he is singing up in heaven now and they are listening to his beautiful voice. Rest in peace, Dan.....
