Welcome to the December edition of the Fly on the Wall. If you haven’t been here before, here’s a simple explanation: These are snippets of life from my house. I am simultaneously posting these snippets along with other participating bloggers. Please, please, pretty please stop by the links of the other participants at the bottom of the post or you may find reindeer poop in your stocking!!!!!
We last left our superheroes starting to get ready for Thanksgiving dinner… We hosted Thanksgiving again this year. We had Evil Genius’s now traditional turkey in a bucket and the not so traditional turkey made of cheese, sausage, and crackers…
Words uttered the week of Thanksgiving: “It’s Tuesday. Do you know where your turkey bucket is?”
My parents came up for Thanksgiving. Can you tell who the dog was most taken with?
Conversations held on Thanksgiving in our house:
Me to the Professor: “Are your pants on inside out?”
The Professor: “Oh.” Looks down at his pants, inspects them for a bit. “I guess they are” (Goes right back to watching tv).
Evil Genius: “Go fix them please!”
Tell me, what is wrong with this picture?
Now we are busy prepping for Christmas here at the house of nuts Almond.
There was Christmas shopping. He bought himself an early present. He’s so good to him.
Here are the roles currently assumed by the people who occupy this place:
The Princess: Craft Nazi
The Professor: Christmas Expert
Evil Genius: Evil Baker and Evil Chef
Me: Space Occupier
The craft Nazi busy at work. She wants to do crafts every second of every day!
Me to The Princess: What are you going to make for Christmas gifts this year?
Princess: I don’t know.
Me (thinking I’m very smart and clever): Should we look on the internet for some ideas?
Princess: SURE!
I pull out my laptop and stupidly google “homemade gifts kids can make”. At search result #1, she gasps. At result #2 she squees… At result #154 she’s still ooing and ahhing.
An hour later, it’s quite apparent that she wants to make ALL the presents.
“All” as in every.single.craft on the internet. Be ready, people, be ready for all the crafts!
Evil Genius gets back from the ISU game to see me frantically trying to paint The Princess’s nails because it was bedtime and we had almost run out of time to do it.
Evil Genius: “I thought Moms enjoyed doing that with their daughters?”
Me: *Angry glare as I manage to paint my thumb holiday red*
Christmas nails.
Princess: Daddy what’s in these enchiladas?
Evil Genius: Chicken, sour cream, cheese, cumin-
Princess: Ew, HUMAN????
Evil Genius: No, CUMIN!
Rest assured that all of the cooking the Evil Genius does is 100% human free!
One thing that has recently come out of the Evil Genius’s kitchen: Chocolate Peanut Butter trees! (Yes they washed their hands but apparently not their faces!)
Speaking of holidays, today marks a special day. After a few months of growth, my husband will finally be allowed to shave his beard. They were not allowed to even trim them lest pay the fine of $100! The picture below is almost three weeks old, so his beard is much scragglier even now. There will be a lot of happy wives this weekend. I hope to get a before and after picture that I can share!
He looks annoyed, but he loves it when she cuddles with him, because at least she’s warm!
That’s all I’ve got. Have a Happy Holiday! And be sure to check out the links down below this picture of Christmas cuties or they just might very well tell Santa on you!
This month’s Fly Participants. Give them a round of buzzzzzzzzzzzz…
http://www.BakingInATornado.com Baking In A Tornado
http://www.justalittlenutty.com/ Just A Little Nutty
http://themomisodes.com The Momisodes
http://spatulasonparade.blogspot.com/ Spatulas on Parade
http://followmehome.shellybean.com Follow me home
http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/ Stacy Sews and Schools
http://www.menopausalmom.com/ Menopausal Mother
http://batteredhope.blogspot.com Battered Hope
http://dinoheromommy.com/ Dinosaur Superhero Mommy
http://www.JuiceboxConfession.com Juicebox Confession
http://www.risanye.com Risa Nye
http://berghamchronicles.blogspot.com The Bergham’s Life Chronicles
http://www.clutteredgenius.com Cluttered Genius
Love that your little girl wanted to do ALL the crafts!! Everyone looks so happy. BTW, that is one cute turkey cheese plate.
I think it was 12:01 December 1st, when I handed Mark the shaving cream and a razor….
So glad to hear that your husband isn’t cooking with humans.
And I have to say, you’re one very smart lady, you’ve got the best job of all!
Crafts… crafts everywhere!
Its all fun and games until someone spills the glitter and tracks it through the house. 😉
I’m glad to hear you have successfully avoided cannibalism with your enchiladas and you got to nibble some tasty trees.
I love the last picture of your kiddos. So precious!
Wishing you and your sweet family a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!
My favorite spice is cumin and of course, love Mexican food. Loved the chocolate faces — they tell a wonderful story! And the dog — sure knows his place!
I have 2 craft fiends here. Cailey and Colin want to craft 24/7. LOL Unfortunately, I have been a little too busy to keep it going for them.
LOVE those chocolate peanut butter trees!!!! SO YUMMY!!!!!!!
I begged and begged and BEGGED The Hubs to shave his beard. I rejoiced when December came and he finally did. My kids have gotten all craft crazy too. Drives.Me.NUTS!
Sweet photos. I love that grandpa has a lap dog.
Is that Magic the card game? My son loves that.
Crafts get crazy here, too – especially once school lets out. But you all are making some really fun memories!!
Your Evil Genius and my Bigfoot should get together and play… Magic. That wasn’t meant to sound creepy. Ha!
Oh, and that’s where my dogs and kids sit, too!
the cuteness of your kids is just too much…OMG too cute. I love them sitting on the dog bed and the dog sitting on the couch…that always happened when we had our Balboa. OMG that last pics…LOVE IT.
Just wanted to drop by and wish you and yours a happy and healthy holiday season!