Tis The Season...

We've really been getting in the holiday mood with special treats. Wednesday evening my sister and I took the kids to dinner at Dublin Square Irish Pub in downtown San Diego. Really good food and Guinness the way it should be, from the tap. Mmm Mmm good! Then we went to the Civic Theater and saw Lord of the Dance. Amazing! We'd seen it on DVD but to see and hear it live was so much better. It was also very cool because the kids could recognize steps that they do. We had a great time.

This afternoon the kids and I went to Holiday Jubilee at the California Center for the Arts. It was mostly Christmas carols and dancing. It reminded me of a cross between The Lawrence Welk Show and a Donny and Marie Christmas Special. It was fun though. We also got to see Santa and the city Christmas tree lighted.

Shhh%#t!!

Now I'm the only hold out for the Hawkins barforama. Paul threw up all day Saturday in Malibu while on a strike team. The nice residents of Malibu brought him all sorts of tummy settlers but it didn't help much. The guys lost him for awhile. They didn't realize he was on the floor of the engine in the fetal position. He came home yesterday and slept from 4:00pm till this morning. We think he's over the worst of it. Kyle and Kendra on the other hand stayed home from school today and filled buckets. They ate a tiny bit of dinner and haven't lost it yet. Maybe a good nights sleep and they'll be OK. My stomach is making scary sounds. I can't get sick. I'm the Mom. I'm not allowed to get sick.

Just a random cute picture.

Stick 'em up!

Shhhh

Kieran is sleeping at almost 9:30 in the morning. He's had some type of tummy bug since Tuesday. The first day he threw up at The Coffee Bean And Tea Leaf store-luckily on the outside patio, in the lingerie department of Wal-Mart, and then at home. Wednesday he was back to his normal self-Hooray, just a 24 hour bug. Thursday on our way out the door to my sister-in-law's house he tossed his cookies "near" the bathroom, in or rather on the bathroom and all over himself. Change of clothes and we'll try to get to Moreno Valley. We set off with two barf buckets, a roll of paper towels, rags and water bottles to swish out said bucket and the offensive mouth. We made it all the way to Bonsall before the first stop. Then I think we made it into Moreno Valley for stop number two. Kieran was OK all day, he didn't eat a lot and just lay around watching movies. What he did eat left him somewhere in Temecula I think, on the ride home.
So far so good since then. I had to get a haircut yesterday-it's been 6 months! My "girl" moved to a shop in the mall. So, we had to go into the mall on the day after Thanksgiving. Aaahhhh! Gotta love the Irish luck. We got the first spot in front of the door on our first trip down a row! I took the pretty bucket with us. I was on a mission, I needed a haircut. We met a couple with their 1 year old triplets on the way to the salon. Kieran did fine although he made me carry the bucket. And he's still asleep. Hopefully he's at the end of this bug.

No motivation

I have no motivation to write or type today but I do have some cute pictures.

Kyle doesn't seem to realize he's using Elsa's blanket. She's also a little pushy.

Great multi-tasking Kyle.

Watch TV, be a cat bed

and scratch the dog's tummy.

The Lion (Elsa) lies down with Lamb (herder-Sadie)

Flip This Room

We decided to take out the window in our downstairs bedroom and put in French Doors. It's going to be a pool/mud room. We're planning on putting down tile so this will be the access to and from the pool.

Isn't Nature Cool

This is "our" Coopers Hawk. I say ours because he is always on the light post outside our house or on the back fence or roof. He's quite a handsome fellow. I know, I know he's scoping out the bird feeders. He also likes mouse though and that's a good thing.




This is my San Onofre Nuclear Plant affected tomato plant. This is it's second growth. I cut it way back after it's first harvest of literally hundreds of tomatoes over the summer. It's not that impressive unless you take into consideration that the fence panel directly behind it is 6' x 8'
wide.

One days harvest!

Have your kids brought home a seed in a cup yet? How nice, learning about how plants grow. This monstrosity taking over our back yard is/was Kyle's sprout in an 8oz plastic cup.

Curling part deux

Here is my second try at Kendra's hair. She had 54 Soft Spikes in her hair the first time. This time I got 71 spikes in. A wig is looking better and better.

Poor thing she got the Condon/McCafferty billboard forehead. Their pediatrician says it was used for breaking through ice thousands of years ago. And this is why I wear bangs.

We went to the Harvest Festival at the Del Mar Fairgrounds yesterday just to get out. It was so crowded. And there was way too much fragile stuff for 6 little hands. I think I said, "Don't touch" about a gazillion times. Cool stuff but without the six-armed Octopus it would have been easier. Then again it would have been more expensive too if I could have concentrated.

The bird guy was really nice though. The whole time I was thinking, "Please don't hurt the nice man's birds, please don't hurt the nice man's birds..."