Wow, time sure has flown by lately...
I took the week of Thanksgiving off and decided to take my youngest niece to the Children's Museum at the Gateway. We had lots of fun, once she decided it was okay to play. We had lunch and went to Build-A-Bear to look around before going back home.
At Christmas, I had 2 weeks off. Before Christmas, I borrowed my niece again and we went to see “The Princess and the Frog”. We bought popcorn and she was so cute. We got to the theatre and sat down and she put her napkins in her lap and pointed to the bag of popcorn. She was really good through the movie and just kept asking for popcorn. I think she ate more than I did!
We had a really good Christmas and it was fun to have everyone together. As usual, Mom went a little crazy and spoiled us all.
The Monday after Christmas my sister went in and had her 2nd baby. So my youngest niece now has a little brother around the house. She wasn’t sure she liked him when we took her to the hospital and she was a little afraid of her mom in that big hospital bed, but she warmed up eventually. When I was holding him, I got her to come look at his little feet, but she wouldn’t get too close. With the new baby, I now have 3 nieces and 3 nephews and 1 nephew on the way.
New Year’s Eve I got to hold the little guy. His sister got a little mad telling us he was mommy’s baby. I’m sure there’s been a discussion about how she shouldn’t pick him up. She’s a little rough with her baby dolls and my sister was a little nervous about it.
It was a great end to the year!
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"I cannot live without books."
Thomas Jefferson
"When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship."
Spindle's End by Robin McKinley
"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you."
Winnie the Pooh
"Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it." The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery
"When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
"Because when you're imagining, you might as well imagine something worthwhile."
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
"Even for me life had it's gleams of sunshine."
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
Winnie the Pooh
"I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true." Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
"Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live."
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
"His own heart laughed, and that was quite enough for him."
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
"I told Dad about yesterday...I told him how I made all those mistakes.
'But you kept on playing?' Dad said. His eyes got wide when he said it. I could tell he was proud.
'Everybody does,' I said. 'You can't just get up and walk away every time you mess up. You'd never get anywhere."
A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban
"And he is up there with no one and nothing to love. It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it."
The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.”
Winnie the Pooh
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
"'Were they not satisfied where they were?' asked the little prince.
'No one is ever satisfied where he is,' said the switchman."
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Thomas Jefferson
"When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship."
Spindle's End by Robin McKinley
"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you."
Winnie the Pooh
"Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it." The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery
"When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
"Because when you're imagining, you might as well imagine something worthwhile."
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
"Even for me life had it's gleams of sunshine."
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
Winnie the Pooh
"I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true." Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
"Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live."
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
"His own heart laughed, and that was quite enough for him."
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
"I told Dad about yesterday...I told him how I made all those mistakes.
'But you kept on playing?' Dad said. His eyes got wide when he said it. I could tell he was proud.
'Everybody does,' I said. 'You can't just get up and walk away every time you mess up. You'd never get anywhere."
A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban
"And he is up there with no one and nothing to love. It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it."
The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.”
Winnie the Pooh
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
"'Were they not satisfied where they were?' asked the little prince.
'No one is ever satisfied where he is,' said the switchman."
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"It didn't matter. He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about."
Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet by Jamie Ford
"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
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2 comments:
I can see that you have had some fun experiences and that surely help time fly. I am glad. Time has crawled for me but I haven't filled it with the same things you have. Maybe next year I can enjoy the season as it is meant to be enjoyed. I like to hear about your events. You are a good aunt! I hope your sister and brother appreciate you!!! Congratulations on a new nephew - what is his name?
Oh, I love that you "borrow" your neice and I love that you are able to take them one at a time. That is VALUABLE to them. They get to go somewhere special ALONE! I wish it for my children. I wish I could take them out alone a little more often. It makes them feel unitquely important and very special and it builds a better relationship. Don't you agree?
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