Yesterday

Our guests started to arrive at 10 am for our weekly homeschool group meeting. We are going to start having it here at the house since it is a wee bit cold sitting at the picnic tables at the park in the winter. Although somedays I wonder if the inside of our home is really that much warmer. When you put 18 children and a group of adults in our home is cozy.
How much paint do you think children can put on wooden gingerbread men? And I am not sure I understand where the fanged teeth come into play either. It was great fun seeing how creative the kids got. I wanted them to make something that would last a few years and they would get a kick out of when they are teens.
Can you believe the only mess was from Quayde and his bag of potato chips (he wasn't supposed to have)?
It will be nice to have everyone over each week. Just got to come up with enough activities.
After everyone left , we had about an hour before our next company showed up. A much calmer crowd....well maybe not as Quayde came running through without a shirt and claimed the girls took it. My best friend brought me Dr. Pepper. Always a much appreciated thing. Okay.... so I worship the ground she walks on for being an enabler of my addiction. I need to be very sly next time though. Lydia has a Dr. Pepper beacon. She spotted it and promptly drank about half, when she wasn't trying to share (forcefully) with Kristi. Good thing Kristi is very patient.
Kristi and her kids head off giving us about an hour to get ready for our ward Christmas dinner, can't call it a party really, there wasn't anything except dinner and the little nativity thing. Michael promptly took the next 40 min getting himself ready. Meanwhile I am trying to calm a crying baby, prepare food for Lydia, get Quayde's wiseman box finished etc... Needless to say the two little ones and I arrived about 25 min after the rest of the family and all I could find to wear was a dirty purple shirt. Guess who is not on my happy santa list?
But then I can't really blame him because he's only like really lived with us for 6 months now, and is still learning.
So we are headed into the weekend here and part of the power is out in the house I need to go hunt down which breaker has tripped, but man it is cold out there. I am not doing anything today.....and if you believe that...I really am an alien from Mars.