How Many Kings?

The song that is playing in the background is one of my favourite Christmas songs. It makes me want to cry and shout for joy all at the same time! lol!

How many kings stepped down from their throne?
How many lords have abandoned their home?
How many greats have become the least for me?
How many Gods have poured out their hearts to romance a world that was torn all apart?
How many Fathers have gave up their son for me?
Only one did that for me.

~Downhere~

That is truly what this blessed holiday is about! Thank you God for coming into this broken world for me! I pray I can teach my kids the true meaning of Christmas, despite all the consumerism that is around us!

Missing Our Rooey Girl!

Our Riley-roo went off to my mom's place today, to stay for a couple days....and I am already missing her! Pathetic I know! She was so excited to go and stay with Grandma and she told me about all the many things they are going to do in the next few days! I know she is going to have a blast and the time will fly for her! She was so sweet! As I was waving good bye and blowing kisses to her in the driveway, I could see her little chin quiver and she was trying with all her mite not to cry!!! She loves my Mom alot, probably even more than me!!! However Miss Roo really has a hard time with good byes. I almost got choked up when she was all misty eyed! Even though I knew she was in good hands and would probably forget all about me within minutes :) Funny how our kids can get us like that!

While she is gone I will be finishing my Christmas shopping with Miss Addy in tow, and this next week is the busiest one leading up to the big day! I think we have some sort of event everyday this week except for Monday and Friday! My big goal is to focus and enjoy on one day at a time :)

Hurray only 5 days of school left until Christmas holidays!!!! I know many families countdown the days until their kids go back, not me! I love having everyone under the roof. I love spending the morning hanging out and making pancakes for the kids. I love not having to be anywhere at a specific time, and I find the holiday's are the best time of the year for those lazy mornings :) Hope you all have a splendiferous (we have been reading too much Fancy Nancy!) week :)

23, 22, 21,19 Days until Christmas Advent

O.k we were so busy having fun with these activities I hardly had time to post ;)

23 - Josh's famous Candy Cane Hot Chocolate ~ 1 after 8 chocolate in bottom of cup with hot cocoa mix, hot water, a little milk, stir with a candy cane and top with whip cream! Yum-o!

22- Family fun dinner at Trina & Vince's ~ we had a blast! Good food & fun times.

21- Set up kids Christmas tree! ~ they had a blast and I watched from the sidelines ;)

20- Tobogganing! Riley was in her glory! First time tobogganing this year!

19- Today we made Chocolate Peppermint cookies for the school carnival on Thursday.

I wish I had pictures of each of these events, but I don't! I am going to try harder to snap a couple quick pics of each activity from here on out.

Blood work

So I have been putting off having Addison's blood work done. I know bad mom! Our doctors weren't too concerned, so they said wait until she had settled in a bit. Today was the day....and it didn't go so well. I expected tears and crying, what I didn't expect was that it would take 6 "pokes" to get a vein so they could get the blood! And then they could only get 4 of the 6 viles filled! Blood work isn't something I even think twice about as we do it lots with Nate, but poor Addison was very very upset for hours after, we snuggled and talked and bought a Kai Lan toy, she had her favorite thing for lunch and still she was a mess all she wanted to do was be carried around. I was glad I chose today and not a day when Riley was home because my sweet little Miss needed ALOT of extra attention this morning :) which I was only more than happy to give. I will wait a while to get the other 2 blood tests done, and hopefully it will go much better next time!

Oh and how cute it that picture!?! It was the face I saw just about all morning today. Its a face we know well around here :) We see it usually when we say "No Addison you can't eat candy all day." I had to keep that picture around because it is just so gosh darn cute ;)

Advocating!!!

O.k. this sweetest little girl is looking for a forever family! She is described as having the sweetest personality. Her agency "given" English name is Sadie. Sadie has osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease) and has had a few fractures when she was a baby, however she hasn't had any in a very long time. Her nannies love her, but they treat her like glass so she isn't allowed to play with the other kids or learn how to walk. She is on the shared list and is 3 yrs old. I am praying we find her a family. I wish it was mine however I think not, Addison just needs more time adjusting, as do we :) If you are interested in Sadie email me! khmervyn@telus.net Oh how my heart breaks for her! Sadie deserves to see the world and not sit in a crib all day out of fear, she needs love and medication to strengthen her bones, she needs a Mom and a Dad! I know brittle bone disease sounds scary......and sometimes it can be, however the joy and love Nathan has brought to our lives sure outweighs the hard hospital times. I would love to mentor anyone who is interested in adopting a child with O.I. I don't know everything about the disease, but I have had 11 years experience in the trenches. If you are a fellow blogger I would ask you to consider posting her picture or linking this post you can even add my email. I am passionate about finding Sadie a home. O.k. I am now stepping off my soap box :)

Love This Boy!

Gosh this picture captures Nathan's spirit, in everyway, when I look at it, it makes my heart sing! Oh how I love this boy!

24 Days: Make a Christmas Puzzle!

So I have decided to do family focused activities for our Christmas advent calendar. I am really excited to do these activities and hope the kids will really enjoy them. Today was make a Christmas puzzle. We had fun.....it was a 100 piece puzzle from the dollar store, soooo it wasn't well made! lol! And alot of pieces could fit in several places!!! For real! It had the boys very frustrated, and Riley stormed off more than once when the piece she thought fit perfectly really didn't! Oh well, this is the stuff memories are made of :) It was really nice to do something with all of the kids and not have them all off in their separate spaces. Addison even found a couple pieces place, so I would say this activity was a success! Good thing too, because I have another Christmas puzzle to do later in our advent calendar :)

On a side note, I have never had any of my children go through the "why?" stage.........that was until Addison! "but mommy, whyeeee?" It really is so darn cute! And is something I will have to try and get a video of :) Oh, I am certainly trying to get a video of Addison "singing" Santa baby!

fingers crossed there, she definitely only performs when SHE feels like it :)