Month: December 2017

Another lovely Christmas in the books!

Noomi and I made Christmas cookies, and the guys were nice enough to try all of them.  The family favorite was the snickerdoodles.    We had Christmas Eve at our house this year, but due to the storm Aunt Liz and her family didn’t make it up.  We had a ton of food for the rest of us though and had a lovely evening.  Christmas morning started at 6 am (which I’ll call a win).  Ajax said he was up at 5 am but forced himself back to sleep.

The kids got some really neat gifts and so did Dave and I this year.  We tried driving into Dearborn but the highway was so slick we slide around and then decided to turn around.  Going up the highway a few miles equated to an hour in the car and just wasn’t worth the stress.  So we got home, got back into our PJs and had a lazy day watching movies and playing with new toys.

After Christmas we headed up north to Mikado.  Everyone was up north and we had a lovely time.  We had to come back home on Thursday night because on Friday 12/29 we closed on our new house!  This means we are officially on Baby Steps 4, 5, and 6!  We are debt free, except for our house, and we are rounding off our emergency fund.  What a Christmas present!

Oh as Noomi is missing her 2 front teeth, I can’t even tell you how many people asked what she wanted for Christmas lol.

Oh my gosh, I’m so behind!  I don’t even know where to start.  We’ve done stuff and I only remember 1/3 of it.

We had the Williamston light parade in town. Noomi and I walked in it and Dave and Ajax watched and waved from the sidelines.  Ajax collected a bunch of candy which annoyed Noomi, but he was nice enough to share.

Dave took the kids to his sister, Lisa’s house, for a family get together setting up Great Grandma Indish’s Christmas Village.  The rest of the cousins were there and the kids had a great time. I ended up staying home sick because that’s how it goes.

We also got family pictures at a neat tree farm in Owosso and the pictures look great!

Noomi is thoroughly enjoying girl scouts and both kids are loving swim class.  Ajax also had his third grade economics fair.  He and his partner, Dylan, made Kool Aid play dough kits for $1.  They did pretty good, but I still don’t know what they learned from the project except they were excited to donate the money to a charity.

We also had a family dinner in Mexican town this past weekend, saw Santa, did last minute shopping and I also made Ajax get a haircut.   Oh, Noomi also had a birthday party at the theater in town and was so excited as it was the first party where I just dropped her off and left. She was beyond excited.

I don’t even know what else we’ve done. It’s been a whirlwind.  I know we have Christmas coming soon, this darn Elf creeping around the house, and wet winter snow.