Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas

to all

and to all,

a good night.

New favorite word.

You know what my favorite word of the day is today?
Contingent.

As in, I just looked at the house we're buying on the internet and right beside the listing it says: "contingent".

As in, if everything goes according to plan, (knock on wood) in less than one month, we will be living about 2 minutes from Todd's office, and our children will be attending a school we are much more comfortable with.

Yup, contingent.
c-o-n-t-i-n-g-e-n-t.

And now that you all can sleep better knowing my favorite word of the day.....I'm going to go to bed as well. Of course, my going to bed is contingent on everybody else staying asleep and my ability to remove the rather large pile of laundry from said bed.

Contingent.
Man, I just love that word.

Moving Man

While the older kids are away,
the moving man will play....

He doesn't seem to grasp the concept that we have packed things in boxes for a reason.
He loves to unpack the boxes we haven't finished and taped yet.
I'm sure this will be super helpful when we're unpacking in our new house.
But for now, it's just plain annoying.
(And a little bit humorous.)

Snow Day

After the day we had yesterday, I was delighted to wake up to a minimal amount of snow on the ground and canceled schools. We all needed it. Everybody hung out in their jammies all day long.

We all played some Nintendo. (Yes, you read that right....nintendo......as in old school nintendo. You know the one where you have to blow on the cartridges and wiggle them just right while simultaneously pushing the buttons and hoping the screen will stop blinking blue. Then while you're playing, you are also silently praying that the machine will stay on until you finish before you have to start the blasted process all over again.) That's just how we roll at the Fischer house.

Here are two of my boys competing at Mario Brothers. The original one.

I love their identical expressions.

Owen got tired of the video games and decided to spend some time hanging out in the toy box

and torturing his best friend.
Seriously - the kid loves Kaia.
Not sure if the feeling is mutual, but she tolerates a lot. Probably because he is the number one source of her table food scraps.

And after hot soup and a movie, everyone is in bed.

Ahhhhhhh. Love snow days.

Just pics

Birthday Gal

I

can't

believe

she's

six!

The diva turned 6 today. We celebrated on Saturday. She wanted to paint pottery with her cousin and friend and then we met up with our boys, the grandparents, aunt and uncle, etc at Todd's office for pizza, cake, dancing, games, and some more crafting.

She had a great time. She is such a funny girl. She's got a lot of sweetness in her combined with some vinegar and sass. I can never predict what she's going to say or do next. Just when I think she's all diva and girl, I'll catch her out in the back yard tromping through the creek and shooting play guns with all the boys. I love that about her.

And I still can't believe she's 6.

4 Years Ago

Four years ago today we received our referral.

It was one of the Best

Days

Of

My

Life.



(Here's the whole story from last year's blog entry: http://fabfischerfive.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-referraliversary.html)