Family draw night

Birds, clocks, boats, robots--these were the subjects of tonight's first family draw event.  There's some real talent in this trio, no?  I'd like to make this a weekly event.  Along with game night.  And vegetarian night.  Oh, I have plans.  Plenty of plans.

Yesterday was a bit of a wash.  I felt sickish all day, though not enough to get out of a grocery store run--we needed EVERYTHING.  Mercifully, Walmart was relatively calm and easy to get out of--rare indeed.  We kept Lolly for the day since Molly had to work at the hotel (HEY!! Anyone interested in buying a historic hotel/restaurant?  Email me.)  The girls played together amazingly well.  Enough for me to finish stripping the Christmas tree.  We even accomplished crafts activities.

Great accomplishment for the weekend:  Christmas is GONE.  Everything is packed away for next year.  I'm thinking the middle of October.  Maybe I'll get sick of it and have it all down by the day after Christmas.  Nah.

What would a post be without mentioning the Wii?  (Note the rhyme--I am just that good.)  I've lost my "pro" bowling status.  I'm thinking I'll start getting up a half an hour early every day and build that back up.  Right.  Which reminds me, Loverboy has brain washed Little Miss.  We have a Sarah Palin mii on the Wii.  It's kidda funny, believe me.  Nothing cheers me up like hitting a line drive at her chicken neck!  But Anne looooves it/her.  God only knows what right wing nut job hysterical political filth he's filling my precious baby's mind with when I'm not here.  What he doesn't know however, is the over-riding gentle goodness of her heart.  As I was about to dismantle the tree today, she was in back of it and found one last ornament I'd forgotten.  A donkey on a blue jingle bell (I'm pretty sure Loverboy moved it to the back when I wasn't home).  She was cooing about how cute is was.  I explained it's the mascot for the Democratic party and went briefly into the wonderful points of being a democrat, reminding her how she went to help me vote in the most historic presidential election, where "we" cast "our" vote for the winner, President Obama.  With glowing eyes, as she cradled the little donkey in her precious litttle pudgy hands, she looked at me as said, "I am a Democrat." 

God bless America.  There is hope for the future.  And she likes to draw clocks.