The Irish

OK so I am trying to be better about blogging, not gotten to the house yet! Something occurred to me Sat evening while I was in Party City, a lady was talking to the guy behind the counter (as she was purchasing some St. Paddy's day things) about how she was part Irish, it has always amused me how American's really celebrate this holiday, I don't ever really remember thinking about it when I was back in England, maybe it was an excuse to go drinking at the pub but as that was never my scene maybe I missed out on it all. Anyway, back to my pondering's, what I mostly remember about the Irish growing up was making fun of them, we would tell these Englishman, Irishman, Scottishman jokes, they go a little something like this:

An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman were without tickets for the opening ceremonies of the summer Olympics but hoped to be able to talk their way in at the gate. Security was very tight, however, and each of their attempts was met with a stern refusal. While wandering around outside the stadium, the Englishman came upon construction site, which gave him an idea. Grabbing a length of scaffolding, he presented himself at the gate and said, "Johnson, the pole vault," and was admitted. The Scotsman, overhearing this, went at once to search the site. When he came up with a sledge hammer, he presented himself at the gate and said, "McTavish, the hammer." He was also admitted. The Irishman combed the site for an hour and was nearly ready to give up when he spotted his ticket in. Seizing a roll of barbed wire, he presented himself at the gate and announced, "O'Sullivan, fencing."

I need a kick up the ass!!

I like blogging, I have ideas, I take pictures but I never seem to sit down at the computer long enough to just do it, I'll get better, I love reading everyone else's blogs, I just found this cute blog and like this quote "Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” Quote by William Morris, I need to clean my house this week, we'll see how that goes, good intentions and all, just like blogging!!

cute, funny, sisters

This was too cute and funny not to post, the white paper on a white background is a little hard to see but if you look closely....

Dot kumin my room SARA, ah to be five (almost 6) and have a pesky little sister!

New Display Board

Does your child bring home craft things they have made at school/pre-school/church that you don't know what to do with? Mine does so I came up with this-

For all the things Kate brings home from school, I feel slightly guilty to just throw it all away as soon as she brings it home so I made this big memo board for my kitchen, then each day we put up the beautiful things she brings home, they stay up for the whole month and the 1st of the next month it gets cleaned off for the next months treasures. I don't feel guilty about throwing it away as we have displayed it for a good amount of time and I don't feel like I have to keep/store any of it either, if she does indeed bring home something I want to keep I save it for the scrapbook.

Fevers and fun

Wow, so neglectful of the blog lately, had the computer on all day to do a post and only getting round to it now. As I uploaded the pictures from my camera I realise that it has been way too long. Anyway, the girls have been sick, running fevers, coughs, sore throats and ears since Wed night, hopefully they sleep it off tonight, we have been laying low. Yesterday Eric had to take some pictures in Venice so we took the opportunity to stroll around the canals there, very peaceful and pretty, we then took the girls down to the Santa Monica Pier to ride the carousel, they loved it and rode it 3 times with their 100º fevers and all, are we bad parents?

The canals are really pretty, in defense of our taking sick girls out we did just bundle them up in the stroller and they rode the whole way, the only time they got out was to get onto the carousel which they would have ridden another time if we had let them...

Can't beat the carousel, kids under 6 are free, 50¢ if they are over and an adult is $1, also if you liked the canals there was a house for sale on the canals, it was a main house with 2 separately fully functioning guest houses all on one lot, very pretty and reasonably priced at $6,500,000!!

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

This is what we did Christmas Eve

Kate's favourite part: when Mary Poppins floated up over the audience at the end

Sara's favourite part: during 'chim chim cher-ee' when Bert walked up the side of the stage and across the top and down the other side.

It was fun, not like the movie but it worked.

Merry Christmas

I had many grand ideas for cards this year, needless to say it didn't happen as I had planned, the time is flying by these days and I can't keep up. All that said I mailed something today, they probably won't arrive before Christmas but that's just how the cookie crumbles, I didn't have every one's addresses either, so for all of you who check my blog, Merry Christmas from the Thompson's, we feel blessed if you count us as amongst your friends.