We finally got the Christmas card picture taken. Last year, I just had them jump in front of the tree and got it taken in 5 minutes. I knew it was going to be in black and white so I wasn’t worried. It was wonderful!! So my hopes were high this year to have the same experience vs the no one cooperates and I get mad and they get upset and Gracie has red eyes from crying etc….
Well it only took approximately 5 minutes again, but it was not the best 5 minutes! So this is the best we got. It was actually more of Hunter not cooperating, but the kids insisted he be in it, so I was trying to get him to cooperate but the kids couldn’t leave him alone…..long story short, next year there will be a picture of the kids with a separate one of the dog on the card, not together! lol
As if things weren’t crazy enough, as I sat on the floor putting groceries away the other night and talking to Chris in the kitchen, out of the corner of my eye I see something moving by the back door, then I watch the stupid mouse run behind my stove! blehehehehech!! EVERY YEAR! well then I noticed mouse “presents” on the boxes of jello in the half bath pantry. (we have a small pantry in the kitchen and then we turned the half bath in to a pantry as well). Well I decided I needed to take everything off the shelves in there and scrub it all down before I would put any new groceries in there. Chris was so nice and helped me get it all done. I would have been up all night and totally stressed out if he had not helped. I so appreciated it. We ended up putting the jello and stuff in plastic bins and moved all the box foods and plastic bagged foods into the kitchen pantry where the mice could not get it and moved a bunch of canned foods and glass jar foods into the other pantry. we did discover though, that mice like chocolate as much as human. The stupid things had chewed on the end of a brand new, unopened bag of chocolate chips, when that wasn’t working for them, they went right for the middle of the bag and found the pay load! Now the bathroom pantry looks like this…..
and the kitchen pantry looks like this……
Also while shopping at Michaels craft store, I found these adorable Christmas bags for those weird shaped presents! I LOVE them!! They were only $2.99!!
Finally, this year I decided instead of baking plates of cookies for friends, I decided to bake some breads. It was much easier!! HOWEVER for some reason, a lot of them kept caving in, in the middle. I have yet to figure out why! It was so frustrating!!! So I may go back to cookies next year unless I can figure out why it does this!! !
Wow! The pantry looks fantastic!
ReplyDeleteMy guess about the bread...it`s probably not completely done in the middle. You might have to cover the top near the end of the baking so it won`t get too brown and let it cook another 5-10 minutes. Just an idea based on some of my own flops!! :)
thanks, i'll try that, the rest is done but i don't want to burn them so the top usually is a little undercooked, but i will try the covering and see if that helps....
ReplyDelete5 minutes for a Christmas picture? And a cute one at that? Jealous! You probably didn't even have to bribe them with marshmallows, huh?
ReplyDeletecara, marshmallows would not have done it at this point, they want cold hard cash! lol don't worry your 5 min. pics will come one day. believe me, we have had many a teary eyed 30 mins sessions in the past! lol
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