CLEANING THE FLOORS

I can't keep up! For ever I've been convinced that my floors aren't clean unless I clean them on my hands and knees. That's when I see the dusty floorboards and the smudge marks, and use my fingernail through the scrub cloth to clean the beveled edges of our hardwood floors.

BAKING CHRISTMAS COOKIES

MK and the little girls baked wonderful Linzer cookies--a Central European specialty. These are huge! and very yummy.

Once or twice a week the little girls and I bake Pilsbury Dough Boy cookies. Instant gratification. No one will believe I stoop this low, but they taste pretty darn good.

And, I really do love a good Hostess cupcake every so often...

FAIRY DUST

Because of all the princess activities going on around here, we have a trail of what I am calling fairy dust. More literally it is the off-shoot of all the glitzy couture the little girls wear. Maybe princess dust?

Everyone should have a bit of fairy dust in their lives!

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

KF is a most interesting child. She's quietly stubborn, except when she's attacking her big sister or protesting bedtime. Then, she's noisily stubborn. Every morning I feel I must re-introduce myself because she gives me a look that implies, "I've never seen you before. Who are you? Leave me alone. And, don't even think about getting close to me."

She needs a haircut, but refuses to even think about it. I've heard her bedtime protests, so I'm not volunteering to take her to the local Super Cuts. JA and LG were seduced into compliance with lolipops, but I KNOW KF wouldn't buy into that ploy. So, she looks like a little pixie, and when she smiles she lights up the WHOLE WIDE WORLD.

YOU'VE GOT MAIL

Love this movie. Classic Meg Ryan. But, it was the first time I felt that both Tom Hangs and Meg were getting a bit long-in-the-tooth for the ingenue/true love roles.

Still, it's a great Thursday night-stay home-cold winter night DVD. Like tonight...