Wednesday, December 28, 2011

After the Show


Season's Greetings



It's grand central station here in the "White House".


I will however post some pixs from the Big Day! 
 Logan was up at 6.45am crawling back into bed to tell me Santa made it! 
 He was soooooooooooooo excited, oddly calm, and very eager for the rest of us to the H E double L up!

The tree was surrounded with gifts from TN, TX, and Chicago.....we several LATE nights with John and Kelli and friends....ate WAY too much prime rib and drank WINE like water....

Saw  the movie "Breaking Dawn" with my favorite niece and ate popcorn covered in butter and daydreamed about being a Vampire with Edward for days :-)  

Anyway,  here are some pictures. 

 Missed the Toads very much.  















The pictures vary from days before to the big day.

  I have more to come, but thought I would get some up for the TX Toads asap!  I will gets some pictures in their new coats soon and post those as well!

Til' then, 

keep "merry-ing"
-s-

Wednesday, December 21, 2011



best friends forever
little Romeo

the boys


The Winter Holiday's have arrived!

Logan and Jack are out of school today and there is a SERIOUS COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS here at the Anderson house.

I spent all day yesterday with Logan and his kindergarden class.  I haven't had a chance to really participate with him and his class.  I am so happy to have had the chance to play "room mom"  we ate, crafted, sang, played musical chairs (which Logan won the boy's game) and took a lot of pictures!  We had a blast.  Very sweet class,  Logan I am SO PROUD of you!

Ah, Kindergarden....the golden years......

looking forward to the journey...



craft centers
santa watching

logan horse
Mrs. Houser, his teacher
what a cute class and very SWEET
logan winning "musical chairs"
i LOVE being a MOM...

Monday, December 19, 2011

Logan is a True Kindergardener

Logan cracked me up today.  Not that that is unusual, but he's just full of "kindergarten"

He said, "Who wants to play baseball, raise their hand"

It made me laugh.  Tatum was over in the corner raising her hand.

Who raises their hand? but school children?  I don't raise my hand to say ANYTHING!  I am too quick with the gun to be so nice!
" I could of killed you Dick, I could have killed ya."  (those Young Guns movie will get that reference ;-)  )

Every day he comes out smiling and telling me all about what a fun day he had and how he had "ham salad" for lunch.  I am not sure if he did, but he has an account and he can get what ever he wants so I let it alone and him find his way.

He is so.....

LOGAN....

It's really something to watch.  His language and his perspective.  His concerns and his LOVE for his new found friends.  He really LOVES going, but HATES getting up.  He is always asking what day it is?  He "HATES" Mondays, and LOVES Saturdays!  Pretty surprising huh?!!!


I am going to his Holiday Party tomorrow morning.  He wrapped a gift for a "boy friend".  Here is what he did.












And here is how I fixed it.



I will post what he gets in exchange.

He really wanted the "Toy Story Car that was inside.  Of course I processed to tell him how Christmas was very much about GIVING instead of RECEIVING.  It's a hard lesson to learn, but one day........the joy will come......to see the smiles on those you love when you give them  a gift of LOVE.....

PEACE....
&
HAPPY GIFT GIVING

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Deep In to the Season



Season's Greeting's


Jack made this at school!






I have been shopping my double a  SS off since my last post.  
I have found the "perfect" gift for everyone on my list but REALLY 
WHO and WHY would anyone buy this....
should I ask?  
You gotta love BIG ORANGE COUNTRY FOR SOME REASON......


What the......@##@@!!!  I don't want to meet the person that would actually wear this!









As for the Anderson family is building Christmas for 2011.

the tree is lit

the christmas music plays and ......

a new tradition was put into play......

THE ELF on the Shelf 

meet "Jenkins Belle Healthy Family"
 AKA," Jenkins"


The story is read and you find that you have an elf that sits in your house and watches you all day and night, then flys away and tells Santa, you have to come up with a name and NEVER touch him, each morning he comes back,  but is in a different place in the house, and we have to find him!


They woke up and searched until they found him!  Too cute, I wish I was the one who thought of this!


I would be RICH!








Sunday, December 11, 2011

All I Ever Needed to Learn I learned after 40

Today is my Big Day BDay! 

 Happy Birthday to me!

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."

"You're never too old to learn something stupid."

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public."

"Age doesn't matter unless you are cheese"


Thursday, December 8, 2011

Thursday Bliss

Thursday has come and past.
I am grateful,  The weeks keep turning to months and the months keep turning to years.  I am somehow "aware" that life is moving....as I am moving....so nothing stands still.   I am often awed by this and sometimes scared, but hey, it's only LIFE after all.

The kids are happy, growing and honestly alive.  Ha Ha...I say that in jest, but somewhere down somewhere in my bones, there is truth.  I am so pleased to know that no matter what, I am accomplishing my goal...my children are HERE.  That's all that matters.  I am a HAPPY PERSON.  HUMAM. 
MOM.





The "countdown" to Christmas is here.  Everywhere you look there are lights and there are trees inside windows.  There is the overflow of traffic and christmas music humming up above as I move through the city.  I am reminded everywhere I go that"the holidays" are ALIVE!

I love the excitement.  I love the energy.  As much as it is seems consumer driven, I feel at least people are ALIVE, they are IN THEIR SKIN, instead of SLEEP WALKING through LIFE.

EYES WIDE OPEN.

IONS are all over the sky!



Love is in the air.

ENJOY!

Friday, December 2, 2011

It's Friday---
REALLY?
This week has flown by 
which is totally rare considering I am coming off of a holiday--it usually drags like a tired horse at the end of a plow in the summer heat.  Wow that's a doozie.  I don't know where that image came from but hey, I'll go with.  I think that's kinda how I feel sometimes after a long day and then racing upstairs to give baths to three kids already running water, throwing in bubbles and fighting over toys.   

I am not in the mood to pontificate on the woe's of American Commerce right now.  My plan was to go away from my last post, research a little and listen to the news a little, (which I avoid at all cost) and come back with some heavy hitters on what I "think" is going on in my home land i.e. the land of the free.   Instead I have been tracking down school administrators and teachers and such over the past week regarding Jack and his education.  Damn what a journey!  I knew coming into school and the "system" that it was going to be a challenge.  Jack is NOT black and white.  He is so special, so gifted, so capable of so much.  I just need a teacher that can pull it out of him.  When he engages and is challenged he is brilliant, he is beyond his seven years, amazing and unexpected.  But if no one is pulling his string. If no one is on top of him, he will just "do his thing" and that is compute.  Stay on the computer and hang.  He could do it 24 hours a day.  I could go into so much, but that is another post for another time.  I have to put three kids to bed while Matt is in NYC.  I have to get them up and get them to school.  Which by the way, ironically, is much seemingly easier when Matt is out of town.  We think it's because I am such a planner that when Matt isn't around, and I have to do it myself, I plan ahead to such a degree that I am smack dab on time.  It's how I have always been, until I met Matt. LOL :-}


I just let some steam out of my pot. 
 thanks for listening.  it has been quite a week.  along side, matt traveling, and jack and school, i have sold two of my first paintings (happy to say) and i am having to get them ready and framed.  the buyer bought the first one knowing it has a "partner without seeing it...i am little unnerved and hope they like it.  I am doing  a series of Shakespeare characters.  my first was
titania and puck from "a midsummers night dream"  i love them.  i hope they do.  it is hard to let go of them, but am pleased that they have sold. bitter sweet .

i have no tolerance for correct capitalization and sentence structure tonight, please forgive me.  i am happy to at least share with you what is going on in the WORLD OF STEPH, in between the milks, baths, putting out fires as we say, "fights" between sybling's  it's a ZOO and I love it,  and have to loath it at the same time. i'd love to sit and type for hours about what is going on in the world what is going on in my head, my perspective.  Instead, I am drinking wine, writing in iradicated "correct english punication, spelling and syntex, enjoy a glass of wine and actually some silence- for there is NO sounds of diagreements and needs from the other room as I type this.   That's called a "break" in the world of Steph and I am certainly soaking up the moment.   I have to get them ready for bed and asleep in less than an hour.  

Matt have a drink for me and some adult conversation.  HEEHHHEHE (love you babe)

As for all the rest.  



It's  all moving right along.  

And I am MOVING with it.

Here are some random pictures to share from Thanksgiving and beyond.........


they look like twins, especially this close up!  the male / female version of the same thing

what a looker what a kid!

mr. is staying "in between" the lines, school is really teaching him A LOT!

logan & tatum LOVE hanging all over Cyn,
 I think she LOVES it too


teeth are finally coming in! he's getting so big!

going to workout with friends

handsome is as handsome does

cyn is now kitting too, she's better than i am

i see a young twenty something guy in here, he's going to be an outdoor kind of dude

dancing with the turkey on thanksgiving morning before we start cooking it
thanks to uncle mario, it's a family tradition!

finally got them slippers, logan played outside with them like shoes---of course right?

what eyes! 

one kid scarf down, i knitted it and it is NOT perfect, but made with LOVE

i go past this every day to drop the boys off, i love it
such teenage energy

the "clark gable" of dogs
happy weekend to all....where ever you are