wogoman weekly - volume 4 issue 26

I hope this email finds you all happy, healthy, and ready for the new year!

Christmas was so magical with a 3 and a half year old. She loved every minute except Christmas morning. She woke up but was too tired to open some of her presents right at the beginning. We thought for sure she was sick and even took her temp. Nothing. Just turns out she really isn't ready to open presents until she is wide awake. By the time she opened her markers from Santa, she was much more lively. :)

We spend Christmas Eve morning with Phil and Sharon. There she got Bitty baby. Bitty doesn't have a name other than Bitty baby. It sleeps with her every night and even when to church with us on Christmas Eve. It is a reslint doll. It got candle wax on her head and the doll didn't even cry. :) Neither did the mommy Tenille because she got the wax off befor Tenille saw it. Then it was off to my Aunt Doreen's house. We got to see tons of family that we haven't seen for so long. I even got to meet my cousin's daughter finally. They live in Canada and I was sick when they were here for Thanksgiving. We of course had out white elephant gift exchange there. I am the proud owner of the tug boat rock for the next year. My Uncle Jack found the rock at it look just like a tug boat. My brother had it last year. This year I have it. It will go back into the gift exchange next year. That is the rules set up My Uncle Jack. You have to take care of the rock and you have to bring it back next year. We have that and a gaint nome. My cousin Jordan and her husband have had it for two years. Maybe next year we can get the nome!

Christmas morning we stayed home until 1 and then went to my parents house. It was awesome as always. It was cool to see Tenille and Katie help eveyone open their gifts. By then Tenille was into opening everything! It was wonderful to spend so much time with some many family memebers. And we were blessed that J didn't have to work EITHER day! Pretty cool?

All in all I got 10 books and an Amazon Kindle. If you can't find me in the next few months it is because I either have a my noise in a book or ..... no I will probably just have my nose in a book! :) One book is already done by the way and I am head long into my next one.

We have enjoyed our time off of school. Tenille has only cried once that she wants to go back to school and see her friends. I guess that is a good thing. We are having another couple with two boys over for New Year's Eve so hopefully that will help her because she will have TWO boys to play with. Grandpas, no fear, we have Dad on the lose here that is ready to make sure those two boys behave themsevles. Their parents have already decided that Tenille should marry one of the boys some day. So we will be sure to let you know how the night goes. Not really sure about taking Tenille back to daycare. She has more bruises and straches from spending a week with me then she gets in a whole month of daycare. Currently she is working on getting a black eye from running around Jeff and Heather's house last night and running straight into Jeff and his glass he was drinking from. She didn't even cry. :) What a tough lady.

Well the sushi rice is done cooking and now has to cool down before we can start making all the sushi for tonight. The kids are getting pasta. :) Have a great da, enjoy your time with family and friends!

wogoman weekly - volume 4 issue 25

I keep forgetting to mention every week and Tenille can spell her name.
The first time she told me she spelled it t-e-n-i-l-e. I said that is great honey but you have two L's in your name. We did that so people wouldn't call you Te-Nile. she looked at me and said, "Well I don't like two L's in my name! so I am going to spell it t-e-n-i-l-e. I guess as a parent you never win. Since this first spelling conversation she has learned to spell her name with two L's and then adds, "You did that mommy so people wouldn't say my name wrong, right?" I really have to watch what I say around her.

I was able to scratch some time to myself in the last week and a half and read the Hunger Games series. If you haven't read it, you should. Hunger Games (the first book) is coming out as a movie this spring. It was such a good book that I didn't get much sleep at night. It is hard to read with a 3 year old running around asking you to play with her and her antlers. So off to bed she would go and into my book I would go. So there is my book(s) pick of the week. :) The third book was my least favorite, and I milled about the house for two days being mad at the way it ended. Very mature I know.

We did have a family scare this week. Jason's mom Sharon fell and broke her neck. She didn't have to have surgery and is now fitted with a big brace to keep her head still. She has to be in that for 8 weeks and then another neck brace for a few more weeks after that. So a quick prayer her way would be greatly appreciated I am sure.

The pictures this week consist of flies, doughnuts, and bowling. What a sentence! Friday night we experience the flies. I purchased food at Harding and then 4 days later we have flies. hmmmm you do the math. Anyways, we took at as an adventure. J armed with a rolled up magazine, me with a towel, and tenille with . . whatever she could find, ran around the house chasing and killing flies. The number is in the disgusting factor so I will not go into that but I am happy to say that I only saw one stubborn one this morning and that my friends is an achievement. These things would NOT die. We hit them, stun them, and then they would get back up and fly again! Yuck!

Saturday Tenille got to go to a birthday party for one of her friends at school. They went bowling and had SO much fun. They also got to play arcade games and eat pizza and cake. She passed out in the car on the way home.

Lastly we have the doughnut picture. We made (from scratch) doughnuts. They are awesome! We made them Saturday night and then baked them and put sugar on them Sunday morning. So fun. A tad messy.

Tenille is trying her best not to tell anyone what their presents are. She keeps asking me, can I tell them what their present is NOW? I am so proud because she hasn't spilled the beans at all. We took her teacher a present this morning and as Ms. Terry was opening it she asked me, Mom can I tell her now? I said I think she can figure it out tenille. :)

We gave the neighbors and the other people in Tenille's life jars of honey. The honey came from my Uncle Jack's hive. They have been a BIG hit this year. Everyone is so excited about honey. Who knew? And the best part is, it is something good for you! May have to do it again next year.

Okay, last but not least I am posting Tenille's quote of the week. Sunday (after eating all those doughnuts) Tenille is trying SO hard to go to the bathroom while J and I are brushing out teeth. Tenille is making all sorts of noises in the bathroom and then says, "Hey, I'm just like a ketchup bottle. I make a lot of noise but little comes out" It was all I could do not to laugh right there in her face because she was so serious and J actually had to cover his mouth to keep the toothpaste from coming out. Our kid is so smart and funny. AND she and Hank BOTH slept all night last night. Praise the Lord. It is a Christmas miracle. :) I hope this finds you prepared for the Christmas season. We wish you all and Merry Christmas!

Catching flies

Not sure why but we had 30 flies in our house yesterday. Well they kept coming back to life so maybe we just stunned a couple many times! Yep we let Tenille catch em too! Yes we wash our hands!


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wogoman weekly - volume 4 issue 24

Another week . . another story!

Tenille is currently living in a Rapunzel dress. We get up . . put it on. Take it off for school (wants to wear it to school but we finally convinced her she might get it dirty/she didn't have enough to share with everyone) come home from school and put it back on. Ask to wear it to bed. Pout because the answer is no and end up sleeping with it next to her bed. Repeat. Except on the weekend. She can wear the living crude out of the thing and love it. Bath last night . . . right back into the dress . . now with a crown. Loves the dress . . loves it. I'm starting to wonder if it goes in the wash or not . . I think not. We might lose the sparkles. She keeps saying that she is pretending it is Halloween. She also burst into song while in the dress.

J had a super busy weekend. He split wood, stacked wood, and most important put in a new door in our garage. Yes, we have replaced the rotten wooden door with a door that shuts and holds out the snow and wind. We had a hole in the last door that was the size of a baseball. Our garage is so much warmer now. :) Another project checked off the to do list around here. Awesome.

In my world I am now the proud owner of an Iphone . . so cool. I love the camera . . it takes better pictures than my camera. School is almost done. Eight more school days. 4 of which are midterms. My kids are finally starting to get the fact that maybe they should try to study . . .what an idea. Their midterms are worth 20 percent of their grades and I have kids saying . . .yeah . . I'm not going to study. AHHHHHH! Make me want to pull my hair out.

Hank is doing well. J got 4 pigeons this weekend. A friend of our raises them and races them. These 4 were not racing well or breeding well so now they are training tools for Hank. Unfortunately the birds don't make it through the training session. We are down to one bird in our chicken coop. Tenille seems OK with the whole thing. We gets so excited when hank brings the bird back that she doesn't mind the fact it dies. Hmmmm I wonder what exactly we are teaching her. It is probably the same thing that we are teaching her when we let her play with a pair of antlers J got off a buck a few years ago. What does our girl do with them? Why put baby Jesus in there of course. She wanted to sleep with the antlers . . hmmmm no. She wanted to take them to school.... hmmmm no (teacher was afraid of snake skin, what do you think she will do with part of a deer head). We compromise with putting the antlers in the car and taking them places but NOT taking them out of the car. Oh this girl. What are we teaching her?

I took her to a swim meet this week. It was senior night and I wanted to see my kids swim. This is a sport I actually get and can cheer for. Tenille's questions are as follows:
1. Mom which ones are your naught kids
2. Where are their floaties?
3. How come they wear goggles and hats? I don't wear a hat when I swim.
4. Why are those kids flopping around down there? (the divers were practicing on mats)
We left early to go help my nephew with math homework. Ahhh the job of a teacher never ends.

Well that is about it. Hope your day is great and your shopping is done. How's that wrapping coming along.