Jingle Bells

This is how Stella sings Jingle Bells:

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.

Oh McFun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh, hey!

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way

Oh McFun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh.

Close Stella, but not quite....

The Christmas Play

This is the first year Stella is old enough to be in our church's Christmas play. She was very excited when I told her that she would have to learn a song and dress up. Her first question was "what am I going to be?" "A sheep" I replied. Well, that apparently is not good enough for her. She wanted to know if there were any roles of butterfly, bumble bee, or fairy available. I told her not this year. Yesterday was the dress rehearsal so I wanted to get her excited. I talked about how she had to wear a white shirt and how all her friends would be there, etc. "Well I am not going to be a sheep, I am going to be a butterfly" she said. I once again explained how she couldn't be a butterfly and that soon enough she would get to audition for a part if she would like. It all went pretty smooth at dress rehearsal so we will see how my little butterfly does on Sunday.

The Nova

My best friend Amy has been with her husband Billy since high school. I met them both when I was a junior. At the time Billy had the sweetest car in the world...a Chevy Nova. This car was seriously the coolest thing ever and we had so many great memories that involved it that I wanted to write a post about it to pay tribute to that great piece of machinery.

To give you a little visual the Nova was Ferrari red. The ceiling was falling apart so at any moment random fuzz, drywall type material would fall into your hair, in your eye or even better in your soda if you didn't have a lid on it. One time we were downtown Milwaukee and ran over a road barrier and dragged it about 20 feet, it was sparking and catching fire, but the Nova pulled it along like it was a semi. There are many great stories like that but, all of our favorite activity to do that involved the Nova was hitting shopping cart in the local Walmart parking lot. That's right, Billy would find lonely shopping carts, position the Nova behind them and then slowly and steadily increase his speed. When they were rolling pretty fast he would slam on the breaks and we would all laugh as the shopping carts went flying.

So here's to you Nova, we all really miss you...

Daylight savings time

What is the point in daylight savings time? If the point is to make me crazy and make me want to throw myself off a bridge then fine. Daylight savings time is always horrible but it is even worse when you have little kids. It makes the witching hours of 4-6 even worse. Yesterday I put both the kids in the bath for an hour just because I didn't know what else to do. Who made this up anyways? I bet it was a single man, that's who because if he had kids he wouldn't have done it. So daylights savings time, I hate you.

Sister Wives

When I heard that TLC was going to have a new reality show called "Sister Wives" which showed the everyday lives of a polygamist family I knew I had to watch. What I didn't expect was that after watching it that I would somehow understood where these women were coming from. They only have to deal with their husband once every 4 days, they ALWAYS have someone to pawn their kids off on, AND there is someone else who cooks for you. Doesn't sound like that bad of a deal to me....

"How may I help you?"

To all of us normal civilized people the phrase “How may I help you?” is a very kind and polite question but to a 3 year old this is clearly an insult. I learned this today as Stella was playing with her Disney Princess phone. When you pick up the receiver a very nice lady says “Hello, how may I help you?” To which Stella replied “NO! I DON’T NEED ANY HELP!” She put the receiver down and picked it up again, and when she did, she received the same nice lady “Hello, how may I help you?” “I TOLD YOU I DON’T NEED ANY HELP!” I then tried to jump in to try and dissolve the escalating tension between my daughter and an imaginary fairy godmother type woman. “Honey, she isn’t asking if you need help, she is asking what she can do for you.” I said trying to explain what the phrase meant. “Well I don’t need her to do anything for me, I can do it myself.” Stella replied. This is when I gave up. So for the next 15 minutes Stella continued to pick up the phone and get madder and madder until she finally threw it on the ground.

We Have A WINNER!

The winner of the Rosewood hair clip giveaway is LINDA!!! I will be email you today to see what type of clip you would like.

Thank you so much everyone for entering. I got a much greater response than I thought I would. Because of such a great response I decided to extent a discount to everyone who entered the contest. If you would like to purchase one of my clip I am going to discount them from $7 to $4.50. Shipping will be an additional $1.25. If you are interested you can contact me at rosewoodstyle@yahoo.com and I would be happy to get started on your order!

Thanks so much again everyone!