Christmas is a time to share....

That was one of the choir songs that we sang at Church on the Christmas program day, and it hasn't left my poor brain alone since then. If I ever go insane (yes Michael there is a slight chance that I won't) you will find me rocking in a corner singing "Christmas is a time to share, a time to love and a time to care". Anyhow, I have been putting of the official Christmas blog and the reason really comes down to CARTER. During Jackson's football season (Sept. or Oct.) I was video taping Jackson's game while plugged into a light post at the field. For whatever reason my battery was uncharged, let's blame that on Carter too. Anywhooo there was no way the Cougar man could sit with Michael or my parents in the stands. Instead he was busy tackling my legs to make sure the video would make people motion sick in the future. When alas, (I feel I don't use the word alas enough in my writing enough, alas a new resolution use alas much more) he didn't center his tackle and slipped off my legs hitting the cord causing the the battery charger to crash to the ground and then spark, pop and a little blue flame even appeared. I bet you thought the camera crashed to the ground-- but I have watched a bazillion Royal Knight football games and I know how to hold a ball(camera) thank you very much! Anyway the burst of flame did something bad to the camera (flames + cameras = bad) and alas, it worky, worky no more. So we limp along until the first week of December not video taping a thing, (I admit I enjoy watching things with my own eyes much more than through a LCD view thingy) and I am busy using the still camera to take individual pictures of preschool children for them to use in the crafts to come---I took pictures of 19 (there are 20 to take naturally) of them when the camera took a fateful trip in a four year olds hands. I know of the camera's last moments because the perpetrator took pictures of the last few moments of the camera's life before cruelly ending it. I admit to leaving the camera in a reachable place, but there was a preschool bathroom emergency that I dashed off too ( imaging Mrs. Becky with a cape if you would). Anyhow there was a picture of the legs of the red piano where I left the camera. Then the preschool room floor, then the ugly carpet on the stairs, then the kitchen tile floor then.....nothing ever more. So by the first week of December I was completely camera "free" and depending on the kindness of relatives for the December Birthday's to come. Why was I telling you all of this? Oh yeah, Santa brought Michael and I a new video camera that takes still pictures too.... only when I put the card in my printer it keeps saying "card access error" Uggggghhhh. So no Christmas pictures yet-- just know we all never looked better and when I finally do post them remember that I lie at times! It was a quiet Christmas just Mom, Dad, and our little family. We had no dinners in Moses Lake or Mattawa do dash off too and it was fun for the kiddos to play with there new stuff and watch the new movies all day. Of course I was a bleary eyed' bad cook all day so Christmas keeps some traditions. All in all I have enjoyed being with just my little family but I really have missed the chaos of 16 (almost 18 Congrats Courtney and Brenda!!!) cousins and the grownup groupies they bring with them. I'm off now, I decided that in order to bring back some of the Chaos I would take 6 (Jax has a friend apparently, who knew?) to Tri-Cities (1 hour and 15 minutes away if you are not "driving" a sled down the bad roads like I am) to "run" to Costco, church bookstore, fabric store, Mall, target, and maybe Lowe's!! Should restore my chaos quotient in less than 15 minutes if I 've done my calculations correctly. Alas, I don't always calculate correctly.