Hanukkah - Day 8!!
FINALLY, IT'S OVER!! The festival of presents is over! Okay, I will admit I loved Hanukkah this year because Carly really understood the concept of pressies and opening them. But she got A LOT of toys and ate A LOT of gelt. Enough. On the big finale night, let's see, what did she get? From Grandma Cookie & Grandpa Lee, she got a Thomas tool kit. Walking around with the hammer was fun. From Grandpa Alan and Marie, she got a book with a CD that sings the songs and "Big Bear Little Bear" book with a matching polar bear mommy and baby stuffed animal. From us, she got a Dora Fairy Tales book (which she had to "read" and flip through before she opened any other presents), a Princess cell phone (fake but makes lots of noise) and a baby crib for her dollies. Well, let's talk about drop everything and play with that. Between dressing and undressing Dora today in the clothes from yesterday, and then putting her in the crib and feeding her about 10 bottles of milk, this is a huge hit. So much so that she insisted that the dolly crib, with Dora in her PJ's, be set right next to her as she sleeps in her Princess sleeping bag (from Night 1) Now, comes the great project of weeding out the old and finding places for the new. And putting all the Hanukkah decorations and encoutrement away tonight so that she doesn't think that there's more Hanukkah tomorrow.
This is one pretty much says it all for Hanukkah 2005. The dollhouse, the doll crib, the Princess sleeping bag bed and blanket on top, hugging Snoopy on one side, the Clifford the Big Red Dog backpack on the other. What you can't see is that she's clutching two of the dolls from the dollhouse aptly named Carly (with red curly hair) and Cammy (dark blonde with ponytails)
Well, there's a little more Hanukkah tomorrow (it is the last DAY after all). We're going to our first Havarah get together and the kids are doing a book exchange. I hope the Havarah thing works out. I'd really like to have more family activities with other families. Michelle asked us to join this new group that they started so even though a lot of the families know each other, not all do so it could be nice. I hope so anyway. Everyone seems nice from the first organizational meeting at Jerry's a few weeks ago. We'll see how it goes tomorrow. Made my second batch of mini-cheesecakes in 2 days. Yummy but get them out of my frig. Diet starts on Tuesday.
Didn't do anything today on the first day of the new year. Nothing exciting anyway. I spent about 3 hours going through the endless show binders and condensed them down from about 30-35 binders to about 13. Dumped TONS of paper. Kept the basic info from what I need from shows. Adios with the rest. At least there's some shelf space now in the office. Still more crap to get rid of but this was a huge start.
posted by Juls @ 9:14 PM
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