Category Archives: Holiday Time

Dec 4

Cookie Challenge

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Last weekend we were watching the Iron Chef America Sugar Battle. Great job on the win Paula Deen and Cat Cora, everything looked delicious. The challenge got me thinking about baking Holiday Cookies. I decided it was a good opportunity to get out the cookbooks and look for cookies to bake for Santa. Thade had fun flipping through the cookbooks, and Dylan had fun pushing his cookbook around on the floor 😉

I’m planning on making a ton of cookies this holiday season, so things are going to be very busy in Nico’s Kitchen. I started my list and estimated that I will need to bake 15 dozen. Then I added a few more places that I need to take cookies, and now it is looking more like 20 dozen. If only Paula Deen could come to my rescue 😉

Dec 2

Going Shopping

My hubby and I are going shopping today. We are Christmas shopping for the boys, it is going to be fun. Thade is so excited about Christmas this year, he can’t wait. I’m still a little panicked about the Holiday Season: the shopping, the cooking, the entertaining, the stress really gets to me. I’m working on it though 😉

My mom is coming over to baby-sit today, so I know the little ones will have fun too. Thade is feeling a little under the weather, I hope that he is up and feeling better soon. At the moment he is crashed out on the couch watching some cartoons, he doesn’t seem mind that Dylan is playing with all of his toys… He must be sick 😉

I hope that we will get all of the shopping finished today, for the kids anyway… I still have a few things to get for my hubby and a dvd to order for my brother. After that I’m all finished! Thank goodness 🙂

How is your Christmas shopping going? Are you completely shopped out, or still have a few presents to pick up?

Dec 1

Thank Goodness Its Over

Oh my goodness, we have had quite a time getting those Christmas pictures taken ( I hope the Grandmas will be happy). Thanks again to my hubby for taking off work early to help out with the crazy kiddos, there is no way I would have survived the task on my own. I do have to say that our photographer was great and very patient.

Where to start… Dylan (who hasn’t spit up in months) went through a change of clothes before we left the house, so we dressed him with the plan of changing him as soon as we arrived. We got Thade dressed in a nice white shirt, and we quickly got the kids in the car before Thade had an opportunity to spill anything on his shirt. He loved his shirt and called it his “handsome shirt”.

James took Thade and we signed in at the Photography studio, I took Dylan for a change of clothes. I got Dylan onto the changing table, and he started screaming at the top of his lungs. He was so loud that the boys could hear him on the other side of the store. Dry pants, cute clothes, a few cuddles, and he was calmed down and we were good to go.

Thade was happy too, he was playing and ready for pictures.  Then the dreaded photography table made an appearance and Thade completely lost it. James was holding Dylan, and Thade was clinging to me for dear life. My first attempt at placing him on the table resulted in two little fists digging their little sharp claws into my neck with all of their might. Wow I’m going to have quite a bruise tomorrow. Finally we got him on the table, I still have no idea how, and he wasn’t happy. Then it was Dylan’s turn to sit on the table of doom, he was o.k. at first. All quickly changed, he screamed and cried when the first bulb flashed, and there were so many pictures left to take.

Both of the kids were not happy, but we all worked together to get the pictures taken. They turned out really cute, even though it was a hard hour of screaming and crying kiddos. We even saw a few pictures where Thade actually smiled, but not Dylan he is way too serious. Next year I’m thinking about staying home and taking their picture in front of the tree and calling it good 😉

Nov 27

Off to the Parade

I somehow managed to get everything that was on my to do list done today! Yahoo Nico 🙂 Tonight we are off to the Christmas parade, and a quick weather check has the temp at 50 degrees (but it feels like 46). I had better bundle up the boys and get ready to go 😉

Nov 26

Christmas Shopping and Staying Warm

I’m looking for some deals this Cyber Monday. I have just a handful of gifts that I still need to buy, and free shipping sounds good to me. Well that and not having to leave the house, go out in the cold, and drive a good hour and a half with two screaming kids, and fighting off hungry shoppers 😉 One more cup of coffee and I’m off to browse for some deals.

Are you shopping Cyber Monday? What deals are you looking for?