Valentine's Day

Happy Valentines Day! We've never been big on this holiday. We acknowledge it but never celebrate in a big way. Cory worked tonight anyways. So I got to spend the evening watching a movie with Madeleine and folding laundry. Maybe Cory and I will go out to dinner later this week or something for it, less crowds too!

Thursday Afternoon

Well Madeleine has been to early morning preschool this week, and so far so good. She seems to be adjusting fine to it. The early mornings are harder on me than her I think. Since I'm the one running around in the morning trying to get her to school on time.

Currently I'm procrastinating laundry. I've been going nonstop this morning and sat down for lunch, and now I'm having problems getting going again. But I NEEDS to do laundry no one needs to see me running around without a bra on tomarrow.

Law School!

Here's a picture of Madeleine taking a nap on our bed. I seriously don't know how she does it.

Well the exciting news this week is that Cory got accepted to law school at University of Tennesse. Its in his top 3 choices of schools, so it is excited. I'm just glad we heard so quickly from one of his top choices.

I went to Madeleine's IEP last week. They would like her to start going to the morning special ed preschool on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. To help with some of her speech and social skills. I'm hoping that going to school on Monday, Wednesday, Friday afternoons then going Tuesday, Thursday mornings won't be too weird or tough of a schedual for her. She starts her first Tuesday class tomarrow, hopefully the transition won't be too stressful for her. Though Madeleine and I have turned into pretty lazy morning people, so this will also be a challenge for me to get her to school at 8:30 am.

I haven't been up to too much. Cleaning up from the holidays. We did make it to Disney Land the other night. It was cold since it had been raining earlier that day, but we were able to just walk on all the rides. Madeleine had a blast and even asked to go on Pirates at the end of the night.

A Quiet Night

New Years Eve was very quiet for us. Cory of course had to work that morning and had to wake up early for work the next day. So it was a typical night for us. About 5 minutes after laying Madeleine down the power went off. Madeleine of course woke right up since the house was pitch black. We found some flash lights then looked outside and saw that the whole neighborhood was out. We played downstairs for a bit with the flashlights but after an hour or so and with Madeleine being so tired, we decided to go for a drive. Cory manually opened the garage and we drove around for a bit, by the time we got home the power was back on. We laid Madeleine down and us shortly after. I don't even think Cory and I were up at midnight.

Christmas Fun!

Here are the beginning of the cards that I made for Madeleine's teacher and teacher aids. I used her hand prints as the angels wings then wrote "Thanks for being an angel" on them. These were then put in the goodie bags full of cookies that Madeleine helped me make.


Here is Cory on Santa's lap!



Here's me on Santa's lap!



And of course Madeleine.

For Christmas eve we went to a family friends. There we had dinner with LOTS of food and treats. The kids acted out the Christmas story. Santa showed up and gave us all Nerf Guns! We all opened them up and started running around the house shooting each other. I think it helped wear out the kids in excitement of Christmas the next day.

We went to Candy Cane Lane. Its a street where every house is decorated in some amazing way. The city even blocks off traffic, so only foot traffic is allowed and Santa comes and sits at the end of the block in his sleigh.

Even though our car ended up breaking down Christmas Eve, and we were in a panic to find a rental car, this was a great Christmas.

Parchment Paper

What can I say? I'm a fan. I made so many cookies last night and this morning that I still feel like I'm swimming in them. It was so nice to be able to slap that on the cookie sheet and not worry about having to clean it after. Yay for that it made my holiday a little bit easier.

Here's a picture of Madeleine's bed currently. With all the boxes from xmas I decided to open one up. Madeleine and I sat on the floor and drew in crayon (unfortunately you cannot see our beautiful designs) a door, windows, flowers, pets and even a car. She calls it her house and insists on having it on her bed when she goes to bed at night. Who needs the fancy toys anyways!

Seriously?

So as I'm browsing posts this morning and I see this add:


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Sexy Santa Dresses? Are you serious? People like order those and like wear those?



Also no test scores from the LSAT, and yes its starting to drive us a little crazy... just a little so it means our insanity level is about the same that it is always at.