Holiday Season 2010

This morning I decided to make a "Holiday Season" calendar. The girls and I wrote down some important dates like, Thanksgiving and the day after when we go to the Christmas store in Kemah. I let the girls pick out their favorite ornament for the year (I got that idea from my good friend Jana). Also, we wrote down the 2nd Annual Mont Belvieu Christmas parade that Layla will be in. Her little dance class will be on a float with red noses and jingle bells. And ... I will attempt to host a Christmas Cookie Exchange, consider this your invitation (heh, heh) I plan on making flyers and sending the girls up and down our street to put them in mail boxes along with inviting some ladies from my church and other family members. I think it will be a come and go thing with Harry Conick Jr. jazzy Christmas music in the background and hot apple cider. We'll see how that goes.
In the mean time I'm trying to find "DISCOUNT" tickets to the Houston Ballet's Nutcracker. I really want to take the girls but $56 a pop will break me!!! Oh well, I'll worry about that later. My mother is heading to South Texas this Thursday to pick up Nana. We are so excited because she will be here for a whole week before Thanksgiving and we love that! Oh! be looking out for my famous Hominy dish I make every Thanksgiving ( I know you are probably thinking, "YUK" but it's really good).

Holiday Expo

Today was our first Holiday Expo at First Baptist. Hats off to my sister, Michelle that brought all of it together. You are FANTABULOUS! We had a great time and I think the ladies of First Baptist really enjoyed themselves.
When I got home, the kitchen and living room were clean. I can't express how much I love my husband... I moved my Nana's old kitchen table into my front room to set my sewing machine onto. I don't know what it is about the holiday season that makes me want to jam out with some Pandora and sew stuff for my girls.
Oh well, I will share some of the things I plan to sew for the girls with you and holiday recipes too.

My Little Patriot

Yesterday I, like many Americans, headed to the voter's booths. I was planning to stop by after school and I had Layla with me. I told her that we were going to do something very special and used other interesting words like that to help explain the voting process.
The drive from Baytown to Mont Belvieu is about 20 minutes, just enough time for a tuckered out 4 year old to get comfortable and fall asleep in the car. I knew this would happen and after thinking that it would probably be frowned upon if I left her in the car in front of the court house (windows cracked of course) I got her out and carried her to the polls.
Layla has very "generous" tonsils, poor baby, so she snores ... God love her, she can't help it. Anyway, there I was holding this child that is very LONG and not only did she fall asleep, but she fell asleep with Barbie sunglasses on and she is SNORING loudly.
Well, this nice lady that was there assisting people in the court house, comes over to me and asks if she could hold Layla while I voted. "Sure!" I say and soon after I finish my duty as an American, grab Layla and head out.
If you will recall, I said I had tried to explain to Layla using interesting words what the voting process was, I must have done a bang-up job because when she woke up and realized she had missed the whole thing, she started to cry.
I couldn't settle this girl down. All she kept saying was, "I wanted to help you vote Mommy!"
My sweet little patriot.