I Added A Christmas Countdown Ticker!

I added a Christmas countdown ticker I thought it would be fun. I think I will leave it up after Christmas to countdown until next year. Maybe then I will start early in the year and not have to try to figure it out now when there are only 89 days to go.

Speaking of holidays, I am about halfway done with my gifts. Some people are causing me brain strain to figure out what to give them. If you are someone I give to during the holidays and you are reading this you know if this applies to you, lol. I want to be completely finished. I don't want to have to do any last minute shopping in December.

Also as the holidays draw nearer, I am worried about my diet. I don't want to blow it, but so much of our celebration has been about food. I am going to try and find fun crafts and such to do with the children instead of baking cookies as frequently. I am thinking that it might be good for them to not think of food as the main attraction of the holidays also.

I have jury duty on Monday. This is a bummer because I don't feel comfortable driving our car an hour away which is where I need to go, and my husband has to lose time at work so I can do this. I have to show up to ask to be excused. They really need to excuse me because David doesn't get sick time, and we cannot afford at all to lose any money if he has to stay home with the children. My heart wants to fret about this but I can't I have to give it to the Lord. You know the funny thing is, that if I weren't a homeschooling Mom and my husband could take the time off, and we had a reliable car, I wouldn't mind serving for jury duty. I always wanted to when I was younger, but now that I am picked I can't serve or we can't make our mortgage. Isn't that how life works sometime. So please say a prayer that they look favorably on me and release me from jury duty.

Yesterday, I was washing the dishes and my two year old Brook, came into the kitchen, walked over to the laundry room off the kitchen and started to load the washer. We have a front loader and the children have gotten into the habit of tossing dirty laundry in front of the washer on the floor (which makes it difficult to get to the washer to wash the stuff). Brook waded through the laundry and started to load it into the washer. She got most of it too! Isn't that cute! She is my dishwasher unloader helper too. Every time I go to unload the dishwasher she comes up and starts to hand me the clean dishes. It is so cute! And Chloe has started to load the dishwasher with the dirty dishes. If this continues, in the next couple years I won't have to wash dishes at all, woohoo!

Well, I guess that is enough rambling for today. I need to get some other things done.