The Christmas post

On December twenty-forth I spent the day with my Aunt Ruth sewing a teddy bear for Thomas. I spent most of the day with her and it was a great way to pass the time before Christmas morning. For those of you who don't have kids, the day before Christmas is very intense for us. When I was looking at the finished product Thomas saw it and grabbed it out of my hands and shouted bear while he hugged it. I took it away and he cried. The bear is very handsome if I do say so myself and I do. He is a big brown fellow wih a big red ribbon tied on his neck. The teddy bear isn't loved as much now because of the competition. I think I'll make Thomas another bear in the middle of July, when there's no competition.

My one Christmas presents were good too, I got many science kits and a nice pair of slippers and my first pair of jeans in five years. Thank you very much Abram Dancy's for the jeans. Mom got me Discus fish for the aquarium. It was a present for both of us, the discus were. I got to choose the fish. Grandma Leibig got Mom a gift certificate to our fish store, World of Fish for fifty dollars. Mom's comment was "you may see this as a it gift certificate but I see it as a discus fish".

Later on I will get some photos in,
Theresa

Hello! I finally feel Christmas in the air! We got the Christmas tree up! We decorated some of it. Though we still have more to go. The Christmas tree has had an excitement moment. I was reading to Joe and Julie and Julie leaned against the tree and it fell sideways! None of us were hurt but Mom had left for Europe so I had to help dad get the tree to stand. Some of the ornaments broke but only plain ball ornaments. We were very lucky that the tree didn't fall on us.

We live about a quarter mile away from a church that sells Christmas trees so we walked over there, bought a tree and CARRIED it back to the house.


I hear by announce that my blog will no longer link to Joey's blog. When he actually posts I will continue the link.

OK maybe the blogging every day didn't work out so good. Might as well try it again! Well last Sunday I altar served again. This time didn't go as well as the last one. The other servers were not as expierienced as the ones I had served with before. One brought the "Procedures for altar servers" card everyone got when we started serving. I am serving again, at the Immaculate Conception mass. I was pretty disappointed that their are only two of us serving at the mass.

I get to skip out on bible school, not that I'm upset about that. I don't like our bible school because it is a family class and they put the kids who are behind on the sacraments with those of us who are up to speed in the religion. They also have this thing going on about how to pray and how we need to get a "Prayer table" we actually got the prayer table but now we "need" to get a candle for it. Dad told me that the class would actually arrive at 6:30 and go to the church at 7:00. I think that if we need an emergency altar server, two of the students in bible school are trained altar servers and I'm pretty sure that the teacher would let me ask them to serve if the church needed them.

At Olympic we are doing a secret Santa. We have to get our person two presents. One of a five dollar value and one of a ten dollar value. We need to deliver the first present in the 7th to the 12th then the last present needs to be delivered at the potluck party. I have already delivered my first present to ***. I created a little gift bag at Creative Kid Stuff. It has a mini slinky, a bag of fancy marbles, a candy cane and what I call a popper. A popper is a little rubber toy that you flip inside out, put it on the ground and it pops back up (usually about 4 feet up in the air. I have to get really crafty with my Secret Santa-ing because at Mara's party everyone except for two other girls and I. So I need to be really secretive.

I am thankful for:

The fact that I am still a kid.

I have decided that from now on I will blog every day. One of Mom's friends on facebook says something she is thankful for every day. I too, will write something I am thankful for, but on blogger.

I am thankful for my Dad homeschooling me.

Two days ago I baked some sugar cookies. On Sunday I looked for sugar cookie recipies but Mom told me sugar cookies are hard even for her. I then asked Dad to buy some dough. I got the flour, the board and the roller out. I got the cookie cutters out and invited Joey, Julie and Thomas to cut cookies into shapes. I helped Thomas with the cutting. When there was no more room I rolled the dough out again while the other kids ran around the house. When I was ready, they came back to cut more cookies. I added some more dough and then we made big cookies. At first I tried to have them all pick one cutter. Then each person cut one cookie at the same time but with the big cookies it gets difficult to get them out of the cookie cutters and with everybody doing them at the same time I can't help them all. Thomas was just a little machine pressing one and then another and another. In the end they just cut out their one cookie one person at a time. I would roll out the dough again for the next kid. I made Thomas's cookie for him. Then we went back to the little cookies and it went smoothly after that. It was a good family time.

I have decided to do my Christmas shopping early. Most of my Christmas presents will be homemade. Mom took me to Joanne's crafts store to get materials for the teddy bear I'm making Thomas. Mom said that I can do one project at a time. I chose a good pattern that is a simple but looks good. He only has four parts! I probably can get it done in two days. Mom is going to cut the fabric for me. I am going to make one modification to the design, move the eyes farther apart. Mom suggested to put a little patch on that says "sewn with love from Theresa". My teddy bear will be most similar to the largest teddy bear in the third picture in both size and fabric. The first two are what I actually made

I have just finished making the front of the teddy bear. I started off sewing the slits in between the ear and the head together on both sides of the front of the teddy bear. Then I sewed them together

Christmas list

For those of you who want to know my Christmas list a little early it is available. This post will have constant updates if anything else comes to mind (note these are in no particular order)

1. I've been enjoying drawing, particularly flowers. I would appreciate maybe a few nice pictures that I can draw.

2. Some nice, everyday clothes. Especially gymnastics ones (not leotards). There are two good company's I know of, Gym Monkeys (I generally have a no monkeys rule on clothing but when gymnastics is involved I accept them) and Snowflake Designs.

3. Jeans (that are good)

4. an Ipod nano might be nice.

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