Some of This and That

I know all of you are done shopping for Christmas gifts.  I, however, haven't quite started.  Chloe is getting her playhouse and so Christmas is no mystery for her.  Brett, on the other hand, is a slippery slope.  My children believe in Santa Claus and if we look at Santa's rules then good gets presents and naughty gets coal.  According to Santa's plan, Brett's homework hiding and discipline infractions at school should result in coal.  Right?  He can get gifts from Mom and Dad because their gifts come from the heart, but Santa will be giving coal.  My mom, Grandma, thinks I am insanely cruel.  Your thoughts?  ALTHOUGH, while I was pretending not to shop today I found something that I considered buying for Brett until I saw that one of its features is glass breaking.  He wouldn't want to just know it does that, he would want to actually put it into practice.

Tonight was the Miss Universe Pageant.  I am a fan of pageants or at least a fan of viewing pageants.   Brett was sad when I sent him to the shower during the swimsuit competition, but Chloe announced that she would like to do pageants!  I think NOT!  I think the sparkly dresses and stage lights got her excited.  When she heard the cost of each dress she had second thoughts.   It was a nice ending with Miss USA being crowned Miss Universe 2013.

A quick update for you on Kiki the impaled cat.  She is fine and has become an indoor cat.  It has been one week and two days since she stabbed herself jumping out of a cedar tree and she is doing great.  Thadd says she probably keeps wondering why she didn't do this sooner as she is getting the royal treatment and gets to sleep in our bed.

Today I wore boots, leggings and a sweater.  Can someone please tell me where the cold front went?  It surely didn't come here and so I was standing in the carpool line waiting for my kids, sweating.  Is it really December?  Every morning I look at my bedside weather station and yet it seems to be lying to me today as it previously predicted freezing weather and rain.  Oh well.

Wherever you are, have a wonderful night.  I am thankful for the beautiful springlike weather even when I dress for winter (Day 25).  Goodnight Friends.