Organized Chaos

We spent the past 5 days with my sister and her hubby and her 4 boys who came to visit for Thanksgiving. We had some happy children. The good news is the house is still standing. ;) They played themselves silly, literally. We only had a few meltdowns and uncle was good enough to watch all 7 little ones for my sister, my big princess, and I to go shopping the day after Thanksgiving. This is our annual tradition that we enjoy immensely regardless of the $ we have to spend, it is just fun to get out and enjoy ourselves. Luckily it was a nice day and the kids were able to spend the bulk of it outside and run themselves out. Apparently they spent some of that time chasing our little hen around and catching her to pet. I am sure she had as much fun as they did with this game. Other than keeping the chaos down to a minimum and keeping up with the mountain of laundry that 11 people put out we enjoyed ourselves tremendously. Unfortunately, we did not get any snow while cousins were here which they would have enjoyed. But, the very next morning after they left it snowed and kept on snowing all day. I called my sister and told her that she should have listened to me and spent another night. It was a perfect day for decorating the Christmas tree which we did with a vengeance. Little princess and wee princess keep moving the decorations on the tree so I will be amazed if I have any left for next year. That and if the tree stays standing. :) The big princess took the time to decorate the rest of the house so now we are all set for Christmas. We will be making crafts the rest of the month including a gingerbread house, yum. Big princess had an idea to make a decoration each day until Christmas to add to the tree. We liked the idea so we will be doing just that. I will try to take pictures of what we create. After the tree decorating was done the kids went out and built a snowman. It was a combined effort of the prince and the little princess and it turned out pretty cute. Then we all bundled up and went sledding. Even the big princess got involved in the fun. Of course it ended up in a big snowball fight in which she and her brother took turns pushing each other down and pummelling each other with snowballs and finally making the other eat snow by sitting on each other. Sibling love, what more can I say. One funny thing that happened is that wee princess started running down the hill with her arms out and I could not figure out what she was doing. It turns out she was trying to catch snowflakes on her tongue. It was so cute. She would chase them down and throw herself on the ground and put her face down in the snow. I don't know how her cheeks didn't freeze off. She was a little snow bunny today in that she did not want to come in at all. Needless to say I think everyone will sleep well tonight.



Little princess enjoying her snow time. She had just raced brother down the hill and was climbing back up to the top for another go. Oh to have that much energy again!