and baby makes 6!

Hey you.  Wanna see 8 kids play at a place called Goose Island, even though I haven’t seen one goose yet?  Mom placed a clicky thing here.
Umm, by the way, what’s a goose?

Can you guess which one Mia made?
 

It is 8pm, and our bellies are full.  We made it through 5 of the fishes, and were too full for 6 and 7!  The scallops and shrimp will have to wait until Tuesday night.
I loved this day.  I started cooking at around 2pm and we nibbled antipasto until around 7pm.  The food was very [...]

Climbing the walls in a small town

 
Yes….I finally took the kids Christmas pictures.  Tonight.  As in this evening. 
Do you think this counts as late? Whatevah!
If I print, address and mail them tomorrow, they might get there by the 12th day of Christmas.
It’s all good.
Christmascardapalooza 2006 is up at Flickr.  Enjoy!  I know I did…..

I want to share a couple of pics with you.  They are not spectacular in their quality.  But the subject matter makes me feel like we just might be doing something right with these kids.
The photo is blurry, but Quinn has his arm around Mia, and she has her head resting on him as they [...]

I made it through the office parties.  Large crowds of people that I do not know always make me feel anxious.  Especially since I do not like to dress up. 
After combing through my closet and determining that I could not dress up the glittery Roxy shirt no matter how hard I tried, I finally came [...]

Hard to get
 
Demure
 
I’m yours
 
Just wait until my leg is better, Chuck baby. 
Great shirt, Dooce.

-Have your credit card in your hot little hand.
-Call the online store that has the exact guitar your son found in Fredericksburg, but only $100 cheaper.**
-Ask a few questions about the guitar.
-Listen in disbelief as the salesman is a cranky ass, who obviously does not care that I am about to spend $200 at his [...]

Kitchen renovation continues at the jody2ms house, and is nearing completion.  We actually have a backsplash!  And textured walls!  And it only took us…5 years!

Loving the zoom lens
 
Before
 
After

 
Things that remain to be completed, but it might take a bit since it is my part of the job:
-sanding, staining and putting polyurethane on the trim and moulding.  Loads [...]

Learning to love chocolate even though her mother does not.
 
 

Chris wrote a fun piece about Holiday Traditions of her blog In The Trenches Of Motherhood and invited everyone to share their traditions as well.
Our family is such a melting pot of traditions. 
Being of Italian descent, one of our traditions is a large Christmas Eve dinner.  My grandmother used to make a “pizza” with anchovies and [...]

We are in the kitchen. Dinner is cooking on the stove.
The kids are wild. In 1 more day St. Nick will come and fill their stockings.
They are running through the house, sliding on the floors and laughing. Running ’round and ’round the kitchen.
Bill is sitting in a chair at the table, thumbing through [...]

I have a bunch of friends here.  People I love very much.  People who are so good to me that it hurts.  It hurts because I feel lost in their midst.  The flurry of lunches and teas and shopping and trips to get your hair done.  Girlie things.
They are wonderful, beautiful people that I am so grateful for [...]

Mia spilled an entire carton of blue cheese crumbles on the kitchen floor.  The 76 or so year old kitchen floor with the gaps between the floor boards wide enough to lose a small child in.
As I was cleaning the mess up, the crumbly, smooshed mess that required a knife to scrap the cracks out, I stupidly [...]

Satanic pin out, feeling better, but still jailed. 

It is going to be a long 4 weeks for the dingo dog.
 

Honey thinks she is a cat. 
She curls up on the sofa with us in our laps.
She leans up against our legs all the time.  When I am standing at the sink washing dishes, watering the yard or taking her for a walk. 
She also gets on the window ledge outside the kitchen.  This ledge extends from [...]

 
Moving on to red and green soon. 
 

We have made a few blenders of these
 
and some fish tacos to munch on.
Friday night is so damn fine.