Happy Birthday to Hubby!

Today is the 36th birthday of the man I love, and I do love him for so many reasons.

Happy birthday, babe. I love you so much more than I can say. Te amo con todo mi corazon.

Christmas Eve

Can't embed this video, but this is one of the most powerful songs about Christmas Eve I have ever heard, and I just heard it yesterday!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqqlaTRBxas

True friends will nurture your obsessions

....and get you things like this for Christmas.

Who throws a shoe?

After all this brouhaha over Bush and the shoe-throwing incident in Iraq, all I can think of is this:


Call me hopeless.

Last-minute Christmas gift

If you are still looking for a good Christmas gift to give someone and are just out of ideas, you might want to check out this site. It is very cool - you donate money to the site, and the person in whose honor you are giving it to gets to choose how it will be spent. A friend of mine did this for me and I got to use it to help buy new desks for a school in a high-poverty school district. Very neat, and very needed.

Oops.

Today while we were having computer problems:
"Mommy, don't say dammit. You have to say, 'Oh no.'"
He's probably right.

Christmas is here!!!

Finally, a tree!


My personal favorite non-made-by-Daniel ornament:

A letter from Santa!!!

Thank you, Aunt Kirsi & Aunt Maiju for reminding Santa to send a letter to Daniel!!! :)

Kirsi and Maiju were the ones who clued me in that Santa really lives in Finland.

Here's a link to his post office: http://www.posti.fi/postimerkkikeskus/jpp/en_index.html

Christmas cheer

...or don't let your 4 year old get bored with the dry erase markers in hand.

Playing possum, and trying not to laugh.



At the pumpkin farm a few weeks ago...so now he can milk a cow. Cause you know, we have so many cows wandering around our neighborhood needing milking...

Marine Corps answering machine

For those of you with ties to the Army, Navy, or Air Force, this is (of course) just a joke. :)

This is why....

....Daddy is the preferred playmate. My traintracks are nowhere near as cool.

Me: "Daniel, you and Daddy are silly boys."
Daniel: "Yeah, and we're crazy and gross too."

More stuff that entertains me when I'm sick.

I surprised myself here. Apparently I am a socialist. Who knew? I fall in between Mikhail Gorbachev (turns out he's been a Christian all these years!) and Barack Obama.

Now, that doesn't say much about how I feel personally about certain things. It just says what I think government's role should or shouldn't be in a given situation.

This is what I do when I can't sleep

NameThatDisease.com - Identify The Disease

Thank you, viral illness!!