Have Yourself a Very Merry Christmas...

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. December seemed to have flown by and I have lost days somewhere in there with all the hustle and bustle of events that seemed to get packed in.

Where Are You From?

So it seemed like all my friends on Facebook were linking up to this quiz on the New York Times web page. After over 11 years of moving around (Texas, Ohio, New Jersey, California, and now Illinois) I was wondering where I would land on the spectrum. I know a lot of people upon first meeting me wonder where I am originally from...well until I say something that has an "O" in it....then they have a handful of phrases they just can't wait to hear me say! Sure you betcha, I can do dat for youse guys...Is usually my response.

But I guess I am a MN girl at heart.

Even though I recognized a lot of the other answers to the questions I went with my gut, and apparently   22 years in Minnesota still hasn't been beat out of me these past 11 years. I have really enjoyed living all over the country and having friends from different regions that have distinct accents and learning all the different terms or slang for items different then what I grew up with. J may even joke that I must have spent a lot of time with certain friends during the day...suddenly I sound like I am from Mississippi and start "fixin'" to do something and calling everyone sweetie y'all.

Go ahead and see what you come up with. Come back and share. Is it different then what you expected?

Almost Christmas

 Seasons Greetings from the boys. Christmas is almost here and we have been busy with parties, shopping, decorating, and soon baking. Today just so happens to be the boys last day of school, Christmas break starts in 20 minutes or so. It was a great day for them. J is his classes student of the month and I was able to go and watch the presentation (and watch him gobble down two sugar coated donuts) while his two teachers rave about what a great student and fun boy to have in the classroom. M was super excited to have french toast sticks for lunch (yup the little things with him) and N didn't have to change out of his pj's since it was pajama day and movie day in prek and he was thrilled to show everyone his Yoda slippers.

MN Thanksgiving

In most squadrons that J has been in they do a lottery for the leave over the holiday season. In the past when we lived so far away from MN we never really put in for the holiday leave, 5-7 days just simply wasn't enough to drive to one set of parents and then to the other set and then drive back to where we were living. What kind of vacation is that anyway? Living much closer now we decided to sign up for the Thanksgiving break, and got 7 whole days for traveling and visiting family. We managed to see all of our immediate family members and had a wonderful time. On J's side we took the opportunity to spend some time with the matriarchs of the Detloffs and have also snap some pictures...they are a little blurry, my choice of lens and the timer option didn't work out they way I wanted.

Halloween Flashback

I just realized I never posted about our Halloween...you would be missing out if I didn't post about it! The older two boys decided they wanted to think a little outside the box (or bag you could say) this year and M wanted to be Legolas and J wanted to be Robin Hood. After doing some research I found that making their costumes would assure that the boys would be happy. Thankfully JoAnnes had an awesome sale going on for patterns and material so off I went with my ideas and came home with bags full of fun.

I got to work cutting out patterns and material...boy I wish I had a separate craft room!