To go along with the New Year's resolution thing, we as a family have decided to start weekly family challenges.  Not sure yet what we'll call it but it'll go something like this:  A week of no tv.  A week of no sugar.  A week of no computer.  And so it's not all negative there will also be:  A week of Spanish.  A week of poetry.  A week of jumping jacks.  I'll post what challenge we are doing and maybe you can join us.  I think it'll be lots of fun.  We'll aim to start the week of Jan. 20.  

And, guess what?  It's Girl Scout cookie time again!  I know!  Why do they have the girls sell the cookies right after the holidays when everyone says, "Oooh, I actually don't need the sweets right now.  I'm trying to lose weight."  Anyway, I will still buy a box and won't regret it.  As we were walking around the other day, we came up on houses where no one was home and thought we should've had a note to leave letting the home owner know that we had been there.  Voile!  I created a Girl Scout cookie door hanger and you can have it too.  

Girl Scout Cookie Door Hanger Freebie

Click the image to take you to the free download.  PLEASE leave me a comment to let me know you've got, like it, hate it.  It prints 8.5x11.  Print it on card stock for durabitily, cut out the hole at the top, add your number, name, and troop number.  All of the clips, fonts, images that I used were free to download.  Let me know also if there is trouble with the download because I'm new to Dropbox.  Please don't sell it but Pin It, blog it, whatever.  

Have a great day!

 Merry Christmas from our family to yours. 

Tradition.

Sisters.

 

Boys.

 

I love when Mom lets them be kids.

 Found Hermey the Elf sitting at the laptop this morning.  We woke the computer up and saw that he has been doing some online shopping.  

Headbands from the fantastic My Sassy Pants.  Hopefully she'll have them in the shop soon.

OK, this is so sad but I haven't posted on here for so long that I had forgotten how.  Really.  All my settings, how to format my images.  I get emails all the time about why I've been gone and all I can say is that I had been blogging for sooo long that I think I had just gotten tired of it.  The girls' lives take over my life and in the end I pushed it aside and I didn't miss it.  But I do now and I think that is good.  I think it's a sign that I'm ready to pick it back up.  Hopefully a few of you are still there.  Mom?  :)  

I found one of these (well, two of these with different images) at TJ Maxx today and had to get them for the girls for Christmas.  They are hoodies with ear buds on the hoodie strings.  The right pocket has an extra zipper pocket for your iPod or MP3.  How cool is that?!  And at a much better price than whats on the web.  Shhhh, it's a secret.