Nativity

 I'd been eyeing some Nativity sets on Etsy. The cutest little handpainted peg sets. However, I started to think they'd be too chewed on and $50 was more than I wanted to spend. 

Then I stumbled upon this set at Walmart when I was getting wrapping paper. 

The girls, especially Jeanie, played with it for hours the first day. "Mom, mom, it's Mary and Jo-fess!!!" For $16 I guess I didn't really notice the wise men were like several heads taller than Mary and Joseph. And who cares the sheep really looks more like a dog. And that baby Jesus has a little hot dog body when he gets pulled from his swaddling cloths. 

But this part does make me laugh:

It's more like Abraham and Sarai instead of Mary and Joseph :) 

You guys couldn't find anymore brown yarn, had to use gray!?!

Weeks of sickness

 

A mystery bug has been going thru our family. 

One night I found August asleep on the bathroom floor. The next day he told me his stomach didn't feel good, but he had no fever and no other symptoms so I sent him off to school.

Only to get a call an hour later that he threw up on the bus and to come get him, :( poor guy!

He never did throw up again, but he developed a mild fever later in the day and spent most of the day sleeping on the couch. Which if you know August, you KNOW that means he was sick because this boy is all energy.

He spent a total of 3 days off school since the school has a no fever in 24 hours policy and the fever went, but returned again the next afternoon.

He got better and then Doug and I both ended up with coughs and cold symptoms for the next week. Jeanie escaped the sickness somehow! And poor booger-nose Lucy is still suffering, she had a couple nights low-grade fever, but mostly the booger nose plagues her. 

This was her bed this morning, a fun time pulling out all the kleenex was had by her while I slept next to her blissfully unaware. All that kleenex, but did she bother to use one to wipe her nose faucet?!? 😆

The Evolution of a Smashed Thumb

 

July 19th. 

Stupidly stupidly stupidly tried to "slow the close" of my car door somehow and it just slowly crushed on my thumb. All to catch the mailtruck in my neighborhood on the way to swim class. 

Drove to swim, rushed into the next door Hibachi place for a cup of ice, and my thumb was in there for the next hour. 

It swelled like crazy and hurt for days.

August 17th

A month later and so much uglier.

September 15th

As it grew out I noticed it had actually cracked while it was behind the quick and it grew out like a shattered windshield area. I was worried after all these months it was finally going to chip off

September 24th, people finally started to stop commenting on it.

And some of the old blood must have seeped out from the nailbed crack because it very quickly lightened up.

September 29th

Pieces of the top of the nail started to flake and peel off.

October 10th

Still flaking and peeling off the top of the nail.

October 27th

The ratty part finally grew off only to catch on a glove at work and rip half of it off. Ouch! Very short on that one side for awhile.

Today, December 5th. 

The chipped/gouged part has like 3-4mm's left to go before all the evidence will be gone. 

Wow, 5 months to get over one little accident!