When to put up the decorations?

It has always felt right to have the tree and everything up before December 1st. I say this because December 1st is when we start the count down to Christmas with the advent calendar. It doesn't seem right to start counting down to Christmas is we don't have the tree or anything up. I don't think that we are feeling the holiday season yet, which tempts me to wait, but also tempts me to put them up. Maybe a little bit of lights, and a sparkling tree will put everyone in the holiday spirit. Then again, maybe it will be just one more thing to keep the baby from touching. 

Holiday's

Holidays are always so much work. That's not saying that I don't love them, but think about it for a minute. Halloween, we spend the money on the kids costumes, make up and accessories. All of that so they can go out for one night and get candy to hype them up till the end of the year. I doubt this holiday is really necessary, but the kids love it. So I guess Halloween is just for the fun of dressing up to get candy. Though it still costs money. Then comes Thanksgiving we go out and fight the crowds to buy the things we need to make the yummy traditional dishes for a single day of eating so much food we feel like exploding. The Moses family was lucky this year. We got two Thanksgivings. One at my parents house the Sunday before we left after my sisters birthday party, and one yesterday that we worked to prepare. The good thing about Sunday's is we it was delicious and we didn't have to do a lot of work to get it prepared. Yesterdays was an accumulation of 2 days worth of baking and cooking. All this prep so we could sit down for 20 minutes and gorge ourselves to the point of not moving, and then spend over an hour trying to put everything away. Though one good thing comes of all this cooking and baking, all the leftovers. I won't have to cook now for at least 3 or 4 days, and after that there is frozen beef stew from Wednesday that I made. Like always, after Thanksgiving comes Christmas, the most overly commercialize holiday yet. People spend so much money buying gifts for people. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about the giving. I'm just not feeling the buying this year, and like always money is tight. I'll be happy when January comes around. Then it's back to buying for birthdays, and trying to find storage for all the stuff the kids got for Christmas. Though this year for my family is going to be special, we will be spending Christmas with my family and not at home. We will be traveling till almost New Years, and then we will be home to do our Christmas.

This time of year it's all about spending. Today is Black Friday, the biggest retail shopping day of the year. I still have stuff to buy, but you couldn't pay me enough to go out and battle the crowds today. As a matter of fact, I'm still in my jammies and I didn't get up until almost 10am, it was glorious.

It's quiet here, except for the sound of Halo(Tyler is playing). Jon is working a little bit. Julie went to Grandpa Moses's for the weekend. Kaylee is napping, and I'm really just sitting here. I wouldn't have it any other way today. After two days of cooking and baking, doing nothing sounds fantastic.

Oh the Joys of being a kid.

The birthday party was a success. A few of Julie's friends were unable to make it, but the kids still had a good time. Was nice to not have to clean up after everything was all over. The cake made it too, which was a nice surprise.

I watched the kids bowl, and then play in the arcade. They ate pizza and cake, and had a blast. 

This year I have more patience for other kids parents. Last year, I had very little I wonder if that has something to do with the lack of sleep I was experiencing due to a new baby. Lack of sleep makes me kind of cranky. The kind of cranky that spills out into most other aspects of my life, without fail.

This year there was little to no stress about the party, though I struggled with making the cake more then I did last year. Birthdays are always a good time to reflect on the previous year. Kids don't get that, the only thing they think about is presents and cake.

Oh to be a kid again.

Birthday Party!

Even though it is early today we are celebrating Julie's 9th birthday. She won't be 9 till the 17th of this month, but this is the only weekend we will be around to do it. Next weekend we will be in New York celebrating my sister's birthday, and the weekend after that is the weekend after Thanksgiving. That weekend is probably the biggest Christmas shopping weekend of the year, aside from maybe Christmas Eve ;). Here in a couple of hours we will be heading to the bowling alley in Colchester for a 2hr party, and then we will be heading home to enjoy the rest of the day. Will be a nice relaxing rest of the weekend. Will also be nice to be able to leave the party mess there, and not have to worry about clean up.

Other then that the weekend here at the Moses house is going to be a calm one. Hoping for a couple of drinks a few movies and nothing stressful. YAY weekends!

Well that's all that's really going on here. Guess it's time to start getting the baby's lunch together, and then it will be time to get ready to go. Hoping her princess castle cake holds up to the car ride there. If not we have decided we are going to call it castle ruins and not get all bent out of shape about it. It is going to taste good no matter what it looks like. In the meantime it is in the garage trying to solidify the frosting in hopes to increase its chances of making it there. Wish us luck.

Hope everyone has a great day, and an awesome rest of the weekend!

Up Coming Events.

It's been awhile since I've taken the time to blog. I have gotten a new blog that is completely devoted to my personal thoughts, because sometimes they are not appropriate for a family centered blog. So let's see, what's new... Kaylee is walking off and on, not all the time yet and only when she wants to, but she's walking so that's a start. She also had the wonderful experience this morning of learning what laundry soap in the eye feels like. She's fine now, but boy was she pissed getting her eye rinsed out and if I had to guess is stung pretty good. It was only a single grain of a powdered all natural detergent, but I can't imagine that made it hurt any less. Afterward all she wanted was Mommy and blankie, binky and a little cuddle time, understandably so. 


Julie turns 9 next week, though her party is this weekend. We have taken the cheaters way out, and decided to have her party at a bowling alley. Not only does this limit the number of guests it provides, food, and clean up. The only thing we have to bring is the cake, which I can totally handle. Since for Tyler and Kaylee I made a big fancy cake, Julie will get nothing less. Her cake is going to be a princess castle if I can pull it off. Pictures will be posted. 


The the weekend of the 20th we'll be heading to my Mom's in New York to celebrate my sister turning 21. I can't believe she is going to be 21 already, it doesn't seem possible. Funny thing is? Trinity started walking right around the same time Kaylee did. Kaylee took her sweet time, and now her cousin is catching up with her. I can't wait to get the girls together so they can play, should be a good time. It will also be wonderful to see everyone again. It's been since September since we were there. This is mostly due to having to save for Christmas. 


So that's really all I have for now. Not a lot going on here, really just trying to get ready for the holidays.