Q&A #176

Wow, your kids are super lucky to get so much for Christmas. My husband and I struggled to come up with six gifts each for our kids and 95% came from goodwill.
That was a combination of gifts from us, their Grandma, and both their great-grandmothers. We save all year and shop sales when we can throughout the year and the grandmothers help out a lot. We are very thankful! :) 


Just a warning: Love Comes Softly the movie was the only one that was even close to the book.
The other movies were more than a bit loosely based upon the original books. Major plot, characters and the like were massively changed. So, while the books are far superior to the movies, you may want to warn kass that they will be very different from the movie series. 
OH! Thank you!!! That is really good to know, and I think I'm glad I saw the movies first or I'd be really disappointed in them and I REALLY liked the movies! haha I told Kassidy and she said, "Aww man!" LOL I did tell her the books were still really good though so she said, "Well that's good at least!" :) 


Wow, seriously someone came on and commented on a post from 2 years ago? And not very nicely either. How strange. Do you happen to recall if Kass ended up having strep?
Nope, ended up being a virus... I had to read ahead on my blog remember what had happened that time. Still though, better safe than sorry! 


Having lived for 9 years with a medically fragile little boy who has been hospitalised most times he's caught a cold/bug from me, or his siblings, I thank you for not sending Kass to school with a sore throat! There was never any worse feeling that being sat next to a ill child and just KNOWING that I was going to get it and expose him to that risk, once I was sat next to a girl who turned out to have MEASLES, but had been sent in because "She didn't have a temperature this morning" despite the fact she was coughing up a storm, and was covered in little red spots.
I wish more parents would have your attitude, I really do. (I can't shake the feeling that sounds snarky, but it's not meant as such, honest!) 
That wasn't snarky at all, I totally get where you are coming from. We are just now to the point where, when Kennedy gets sick, I don't automatically think, "OK we are going to end up in the hospital." Her first 5 years were tough and she caught EVERYTHING, and when she did, it was serious for her. I know there are a few kids at the kids' school who are in remission from cancer or even still going through treatment, and even though they are not in Kass and Kam's classes, I think about them when my kids are not feeling well. We've been there, and it stinks. I will always play it safe if my kids aren't feeling well and not put others at risk even during *gasp* T-CAP week! HA! 


LOVE the kids bags and their shirts with a K on it! You did both on Cafe Press? 
Yes!! They love them, too! They have all picked their favorite colors now (well, Kellsey's been assigned a color for now! haha) so we're starting to color code everything since I can't initial stuff! HA! (My fault! LOL) Fortunately, the kids all picked colors of the rainbow which is neat! I have all kinds of fun things in my mind to do with it! :)


I have to make sure that Gracie doesn't see these pictures, grin....she wanted a Fuigi (sp?) ball so bad. Does it work? 
He actually hasn't tried it yet, he needs to watch the DVD that came with it. It looks pretty complicated!!


Oh, and is that an American Girl doll Kennedy has? I begged and pleaded to get one when they first came out (I was about her age), and on Christmas morning, I got her! And I have her to this day! Some gifts little girls get are cherished forever. :) 
Yes! :) She had been asking for one for months! I was so excited for her to open it that I wanted to give it to her before Christmas! HA! Charlie hasn't left her side since Christmas morning. I have a feeling she'll be around for a long, long time! :) 


Did you actually see this display in person? It's so cool! 
No, not this one, but there is another one that I'm going to post about, I'm trying to get the video for it. It was SO neat!!! This one was really awesome, too, though! 


THAT was very cool!!
Where do you find this stuff?? :) 
Someone emailed that one to me, usually I get them from emails or facebook. :) 


So did you show Keeghan this since the poor little guy slept all the way through it?? LOL...we tried so hard to wake him up and he just wasn't having it! 
LOL I would, but the sound doesn't work on my computer for some reason. Poor computer. I guess Keeghan was just destined not to see it! 


We went last night. It was really fun. Did you guys do the smores at the end? If you get the chance&feel adventurous you should go to the hotel. It is so much fun.
We didn't, we went out to eat instead... I pictured 5 sticky kids all the way home and decided it would be safer to just go to a restaurant! haha