December 18

Today for our kindness advent we preloaded all those trinket and gumball machines outside our local grocery store.  This was rather quick and fun.  And I did let the boys each use one quarter.  They both chose skittles.  Huddy was all like, “These Skittles sure are hard.”  I was all like, “Yeah, that’s called stale.”

I love doing all these different things with them.  I love talking it over and discussing…like how we would feel if we were the ones who found all the quarters in the machines.  It’s fun to hear what they are thinking.

Tomorrow we are taking some school supplies Ms. Flowers needs to her classroom.  Anything that involves Susan is sure to be fun.

And two quick things.

1)  Today is elf day at Harper’s school.  How flippin’ fun right?!?!  Josh was working out of town most of last week and Harper was pretty sad one night when she was going to bed.  She was missing him bad.  To make her smile as I left her room I sang part of Buddy’s Christmas gram from the movie Elf.  “I love you, I love you, I love you.”  My voice getting higher and higher.  No smile from Harper, but through her tears and without missing a beat she replied with, “Oooh!  What’s a Christmas gram?  I want one.”

And yes, we are the people who still have pumpkins on our porch.  We’re dual celebrating.

And 2)  Today and tomorrow are bake days.  We have lots of baked goodness to share because…cough, cough…baked goods can change the world.  Today was gooey butter cake, nutter butter balls, oreo balls (which are nutter butter balls just subbed oreos) and chocolate chip brownie Oreo cups (smushed break & bake chocolate chip cookie dough in a muffin tin, then an oreo on top of that and then a spoon full of brownie mix…bake 15 minutes @ 350…yeah, that.)  Tomorrow we’re rockin’ snickerdoodles, chewy M&M cookies and Andes mint cookies.  Can I get a Amen?  God bless baked goods.

Happy Wednesday!