Mama On The Move

Kerry was served some VERY fresh seafood! Horrifyingly fresh.

I took the girls out for lunch today at Buffalo Wild Wings.  We were doing some last minute Christmas shopping and decided we needed sustenance and there just happened to be a BWW in the shopping center. I love their boneless parmesan garlic wings.  Katie wisely chose honey bar-b-que wings.  Emily, however,  got a wild hair and ordered the third spiciest wings on the menu. Those wings were forevermore hot.  I had one bite and the heat was pretty intense.  Luckily I had celery sticks, ranch dressing, my own non-hot wings, and a sweet tea to help clear the spiciness out of my mouth. Emily kept eating those wings.  It became a source of great pride to be able to finish those wings without crying (or dying).  She has since stated that this was not her best decision. By the end of our meal, she was slugging down water and rubbing ice cubes on her lips. Katie, who needed to clean her Invisalign braces with water before she put them back on h...

The puppies always want to get off the bed, get on the bed, get off the bed, get on the bed.  This is especially aggravating to me in the middle of the night.  They can't jump on the bed by themselves, so I have to pick them up and put them on the bed.  It's not difficult with Leo; I can scoop him up with one hand.  Gus on the other hand has gotten pretty hefty.  I have to get out of bed and use both hands to heft him up, I decided to invest in some steps so they could climb up without assistance, saving me some sleep and a hernia. I put treats on the steps. They ate the treat off the bottom step and couldn't figure out how to get to the others. This, despite the fact that they climb steps every day of their lives to get in the house. How I get to treats? Finally, Leo started to get the idea first.  But he wasn't taking his back feet off the floor.  That top step treat just wasn't tempting enough. Leo finally got br...

 Katie's ballroom dance class had a masquerade ball. She went as a 50's chick.  Fortunately we had a dress from when Emily took ballroom dance. And we had a leather jacket from when Ben was in the same ballroom dance class. She added a mask because it was a masquerade! It was a lot of fun to see everyone dressed up in costumes with the masks! This is only the third week of lessons, but they've all gotten to the point where they can dance and talk at the same time!

They've never experienced this before!

 Katie's taking archery lessons again. That girl's turning into a formidable weapon.

 As part of a scout project, Katie had to learn to "arm knit". This is where you use your arms as the knitting needles. After a few mishaps, she got the hang of it, and even helped some of the younger girls with theirs. She made two of them before she was finished and donated one of them to charity!