Merry Christmas

We made a quick trip to the North Pole after Thanksgiving.
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With a tummy full of ham and cranberry sauce, Landon couldn't resist a cat nap in his lazy boy by the tree...Hope you're T-Day was full of Thanks, Turkey, and Catnaps.

Trean Up

Clean-up, clean-up Everybody get some toys.
Clean-up, clean-up All the little girls and boys.
Clean-up, clean-up Everybody do your share.
Clean-up, clean-up Everybody, everywhere.

If you have a toddler, babysat a toddler, or know a toddler that has been in daycare, you probably know this little ditty. The other night, Landon decided to pick up his toys from my bedroom and sang..."Trean up Trean up...bo-dy trean up" It's so nice to know he's learning something at that daycare because anyone who knows us knows he's NOT going to learn to 'trean up' at home :-( But I DO love to sing with him!!!

Pretty Boy

Landon did a great job modeling fru-fru clothes for Angel Babies Children's Boutique at Les Boutique de Noel this weekend. He was the prettiest little boy there... His daddy really loved all those smocked rompers (hehehehe)

Jingle Bells Jingle Bells
Jingle all the way
Five weekends till Christmas comes
Santa's on his way...Hey

Reader Poll

Since my blog is suffering from a severe case of NO COMMENTS, today's perils gave me a perfect poll question to hopefully generate some feedback that I genuinely need...

Is there such a thing as being too nice?

This morning, Gary revealed to me that the Accelerated Reader books (he's required to read and test on at least 5 per week) that I spend HOURS searching for in the library, don't always get read...by him. Apparently, he lets his friends read them, then if he has time to read and test on them before it's time for me to return them to the library, he'll do so. Hel-lo? Also, he ended up at school without a belt somehow. Three times and he has to spend a day in GASP. He's already on the list two times, so this should be his last chance. No problem, though, I keep TWO extra belts in his backpack just for this reason. Guess what, he's loaned those out to friends so he was left at Randy's mercy. I hated to call and wake him, but I had no other choice. I am proud to have "the nice kid" but how nice is too nice and how do I teach HIM the difference?

This'll help you get in the spirit!

Click there => http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJNzF-Seg74

Lessons I learned last night...

With Christmas upon us, here's a few facts I'd like to share about snow globes.

1. That "water" inside, isn't really water. It stinks-like chemicals!
2. The glass they are made of isn't tempered, it splinters into 10,000 pieces.
3. The glitter inside, once let loose, takes flight and can travel for miles!
4. Delicate things, like snow globes, have no business in a home with males inhabitants.
5. Even though it's shaped like a ball, it won't bounce off the night stand and bed rail like a regular ball. It breaks, which is how we learned lessons #1-4.
6. If you're on blood thinner and your youngest son plays basketball with your oldest son's snow globe, don't step on the trash bag that your wife is using to clean up the mess. You'll bleed forever!

**Six more Saturdays till Christmas!

Randy's Great-Grandmother, Hattie McLemore, is 106 TODAY....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMMIE!!!!

We have a baby in the house again...

..sort of. Landon has croup caused by a viral infection and is on breathing treatments every three hours round the clock. We had both forgotten how it was to wake regularly during the night. Thankfully, it will only last through the end of this week and we can get back to snoozing. I'm holding Halloween the culprit, he started "barking" Thursday morning.

5:41 AM

That's the time the computer read when I opened it to check the news/weather during breakfast this morning. I hurried through eating since I only had 45 mintues to finish getting ready for the 8 a.m. service, so I thought! In light of my booboo, don't forget to set your clocks back this morning or else you might show up for church an hour early like I almost did! If you're reading this blog early Sunday morning b/c you too were caught off guard by the extra hour, go ahead and get ready and join us at 1st Baptist Haughton. Today is Friend Day AND Open House AND Building Dediciation Ceremony. As a church, we've worked several years to make this day happen and would love to have you join us! Services are at 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. with Sunday School at 9:30 a.m.

Phase One...nearly complete

Mr. Lord finished cutting the timber out of our yard this week. We don't have an exact count yet, but he took more than 60 pine trees plus lots of underbrush and saplings. We still have a ton of work to do before actually having grass, but we're a lot closer than we were three months ago when this project began. This 1st pic is of our house (yes it's back there) from the street before anything was cut. The boonies

Randy and the boys riding the 4-wheeler through a maze of tree-tops before their first burning. (yep, this is our yard too...)

They LOVED watching that blaze! Landon hid behind a distant tree.

Phase two will be clearing more underbrush and grinding ALL those stumps.

Can I play too?

Landon can't wait to be a Buc. He loves to play in Bear's helmet and share his "tote" (Coke) after the game.