YESTERDAY'S PHONE CONVERSATION WITH DAD

Since dad works hard for the money, we try to keep in touch with him as much as possible.

WHAT MIMI WILL TURN YOU INTO.......

At least that is what Mike (Zoe's dad) says. This stemmed from the day that Shelley heard Mimi over the phone when Mimi was having a complete meltdown. This is my present from Shelley.

AFTERSCHOOL FUN

Our friends in California is getting pounded with rain. Although we did not get any rain today, it is still super cccooold! Brrrr. After school Mimi and I went around the neighborhood passing out our goodies for our friends and neighbors. By the time we got home we saw Shad and his family taking advantage of our so called "good weather". They were playing outside and that is what Mimi wanted to do and so we did. All she could really was sit on the sidelines so she and Halli entertained us with Christmas carols.

POLAR PARTY

Today was Mimi's last day of school for 2010. The school mascot is a Polar Bear so therefore todays theme is the Polar Express party. Parents were invited to come and join them too. They made tortilla snowflakes by cutting and brushing melted butter on it and sprinkling cinnamon and sugar and popping them into the microwave. The next table they made marshmallow snowmen, then another table was for Christmas crosswords/wordsearch. Oh my stars! The kids are soooooo excited about Christmas.

SLOW BOAT TO CHINA

That's the cruise the Putney family is taking these past SEVERAL YEARS. To add to the pile of stuff that is going on in my life right now, you know..... rain/windy weather, the crazy phone call about how my brother is dead, breaking an arm and a leg, and this is not to mention the crazy hectic life I already have with an almost 8 year old who has a super abundance of energy and who just simply can't wait for Christmas to come so much so that almost everything in her brain has gone out of the window, we get a e-mail from our home study guy Mike at 10:00 pm Sunday night stating that he needs some paperwork from us in order to complete our home study. The man came to see us way BEFORE Halloween and he is just now getting around to completing our home study by asking us to fax over more paperwork?! Lisa (Nathan's mom) said he is slow as they have the same guy for their kids but DANG ! I sometimes wonder if we will ever get to China. I think I can hear the Le Creme wine calling me. I think I will go answer it.

ANXIOUS

Mimi is so very anxious to get her cast off this Thursday that she could scream. She says that it is going to be a Christmas present to herself. May take her to see Yogi Bear afterwards to celebrate. I am so ready for it to come off too. That child (despite my warnings) is running everywhere in the house. I caught her jumping too. She soooooo needs to get back into the gym ASAP!!!

AFTER SCHOOL PLAYDATE

This is a short week for Mimi. Short school days as well. Because of the snow we had in the beginning of the month, there was no school which in turn meant no school conferences. So this week is conference time for the majority of the students.

I enjoy it when Mimi's friends come to play mainly because they keep her entertained for the afternoon so that I can get things done such as ......laundry and so on and so forth. Both she and Rachel had loads of fun playing with Butch and the laser light. There was tons of laughter everywhere.