An early christmas

I like to take pride in the fact that our family is a little bit different,

like most families we have our traditions, this we do every year.. something my family started

about 8 or 9 years ago was celebrating christmas early, i'm talking late november to early december. It gets rid of all the chaos on the actual day set on the calendar. no body has to rush off to another family gathering, stuff their bellies with yet another turkey dinner in the same day. I fell it is more relaxing... just sit back enjoy the company of cousins we only see at special

occasions such as showers weddings and christmas :) also, when shopping for gifts, people are still friendly, they are not all in hurry trying to get last minute things, nope, some shoppers havn't even begun to think about christmas yet!anyways, this year it was at my cousins new house in surrey. the house we go too has to be large enough to fit everyone and their dates. yes!!! date are invited, to our already large family gathering. so during these christmas's

something special happens... we get and early visit from the one and only sinter clause, he is the dutch santa, who grandma invited to our dinner on a special request. he enters in with a song that grandma plays on a TAPE DECK (what the heck is that) and he is followed by black pete his handy helper.

he calls out the name on the gift pete hands him, and that person runs up and sits on sinter

clauses knee to receive the gift. it is a very enchanting moment :)this year some this went down that was a little scandalous... I caught sinter clause on tape kissing one of my cousins wifes... oh my what a shocker...

besides that christmas was a blast like always.. the strawberry mouse always a hit and who

knew wild salmon and lasagna was part of the christmas feast...

enjoy your Christmas traditions with your families, it is, the best time of the year :)

xoxo

A happy believer

Hudson G all decked out in his dress shirt and vest :)

Early morning

well, I'm just sitting here on my long break at work. its too late to fall asleep, and to early to go home... 1 1/2 hours left to go. I can do it. any ways, while I was catching the baby for the c-section I started thinking about my crazy little monkey sleeping in his bed at home. who would have imagined he would turn out to be such an fun loving energetic little monkey. He is 14 months now and walking every where like crazy. he still doesn't speak English too well, but i know that will come, then i will be wishing I could get some quiet.
any ways... the thing about little monkeys is that they like to get into everything, which kinda makes cleaning/ cooking and showering difficult tasks. lately since I have been busy packing up our whole life, (and man oh man, we have tones of stuff, its ridiculous) Hudson G gets these great urges to wanna help, which is great, but his form of helping is unpacking the box while I am turned around getting more stuff to put in it, which makes packing double the length. another fun thing to do is flip into the box and play peek- a - boo. man that kid is none stop, always going going, going, wish some of his energy could rub off on me sometimes and even things out a bit... any ways, I'm about to fall asleep at the computer, g'nite and for most of the world good morning
xoxo

Almost done

Oh my goodness, it has been such a long time, so much has changed since the last time i wrote.

The painters have finished their painting job, and our house has been sold for about a month and a half now. I thought it would be easier to find a house to buy and make our own, then try and sell our house.. I turns out I was wrong.

we have had no luck in the house hunting department, seems as though people wanna stay in their house for the holidays. I had dreams of actually getting a christmas tree this year, and decorating our house for christmas. making new memories and starting new traditions. seems like that dream will be put off for one more year. In the mean time we have been slowly moving all our stuff to my mom and dads house. kind of handy, but not at the same time. It's good cause we aren't with out some where to go, and hudson will get to spend extra time with his grandparents. bad thing is that we have to move twice, but I guess thats the price we have to pay to find the perfect house.

xoxo