Or in some cases, the Most Notorious
My Little “Angels” 😉
- Favorite moment from our church’s Christmas Eve Nativity Play: the camel that stopped to graze on the bald man’s head. No, Virginia, it was not a real camel.
- Favorite new dish added to Christmas menu (in Mommy’s opinion but definitely not the children’s): mushroom casserole.
- Most Stressful Moment 1: My late-night Christmas Eve meltdown. (You can ask my husband about that one. Let’s just say it involved a can of crushed pineapple and a box of lemon jello being thrown with considerable force. Thrown by whom? Ah, that’s the question.)
- Most Stressful Moment 2: when our Christmas Day dinner guests called at noon and said they would be arriving at 2:15. I had planned on serving dinner at 1:00.
- Biggest A-Ha Moment: Realizing that, as always, everything would turn out just fine in the end.
The Gang’s All Here (We love you, Grandma & Grandpa!)
- Proudest Moment: Listening to the kids recite their Christmas poems for Grandma & Grandpa.
- Most Sheepish Moment: Giving Grandma her homemade Christmas gift, which at that point (and at this one) was just a pile of supplies.
- Most decadent dessert (and therefore everybody’s favorite): pumpkin cheesecake.
- The sweets that disappeared the fastest from the cookie tray: the Santa’s Surprises and the peppermint bark.
- Hit Christmas gift of the year: DDR. If you have to ask, you’re so not cool. (PS. I was so not cool.) Thank you, Auntie Megan!
- Biggest Mental Challenge #1: sitting through Night at the Museum with my sons on Stephen’s name day. (Being little boys, they loved it. And that was the whole point.)
- Biggest Mental Challenge #2: playing the mind-numbing game Candy Land with my daughter. (Being 4, she loves it. And that, too, is the whole point.)
- Naughtiest Moment: when Daughter #1 did all of the stickers in Daughter #2’s new book.
- Most Excruciatingly Difficult Moment (for the children): Being told that we were saving some of the presents to open later.
- Most Guilt-Ridden Moment (for Mommy): not writing a lengthy, personal message on all 125 Christmas cards. If you’re reading this, mea culpa! Know that you are loved!
- Wish-I-could-have-been-there Moment #1: When my friend got home from the grocery store and saw what she’d been charged for that gorgeous standing rib roast. Tina, I’ll never tell if you won’t!
- Wish-I-could-have-been-there Moment #2: At my mom & dad’s as well as with John’s family on Christmas Day. Oh, to be a saint and bi-locate!*
- And the Number One Christmas Gift for Mommy: each & every chance to die to self! Oh, to be transformed in Christ!*
Waiting…always waiting.
*Ed. Note: see List of New Year’s Resolutions for 2007
What a fun list, Margaret! So glad to share in your days this way….
I loved reading your list. I laughed out loud at your most sheepish moment. I too am not so cool, but I did recognize the DDR when I went to the link.
I love your list Margaret! Very funny! I am not cool, and I am glad you put up your peppermint candy recipe!
Sounds like a Christmas packed with memories. I checked out the DDR (not so cool myself) and I htink maybe there is a form of exercise I might like after all!
Also I loved your tale of pg tests. How exciting! I can totally relate, being addicted to pg tests myself.
My one and only time I forcefully threw something across the room was early in pregnancy #1 – hot rollers at my husband.
This was a great list, Margaret!
Thanks for the videogame (DDR) lesson. I am definitely NOT COOL!!!
What a fun list! I am so not cool. I loved the naughty moment. Whoops… I am sure she didn’t really mean to do that!
Can you believe we might see some snow soon here in MN!
Blessings,
Theresa
Sounds like a great Christmas!
Margaret, you are so much fun!
These pictures are too much. You are all beautiful, and those girls are like the cover of a magazine!