OvErLoAd

The family has arrived so our house of 8 has expanded to a house of 12! Argh! We've got things set up to work out as far as sleeping arrangements - we're using a couple of air mattresses and I stocked up on some pillows. I hadn't even thought about how much food we need to have on hand! Luckily T is a Wanna-be-Emeril so he's been doing most of the cooking. Been pretty damn tasty too - tonight it's hamburgers (they are smelling SOOOO good) and tomorrow he's going to try a recipe from one of the new cookbooks I got him for Christmas. It's awesome having a honey that can cook but damn it's bad news for the waistline!

We were thinking about going to the Riverwalk tomorrow for New Years Eve but I think the crowds are going to be outrageous so we might get us some shrimps to steam, some yummy snacks and just stay home and have our own little party. The boys are supposed to be picked up by their Mom in the morning so at least the kid tally will be taken down to 3 ;-) It's been a long two weeks lemme tell ya! But in all reality all 6 have been pretty good - nobody's been rushed to the hospital only a couple of nose bleeds :-)

Kids and Christmas

Whew. Six kids at Christmas and we survived! :-) T's ex decided last minute that she wasn't going to come get them so on the Eve of Christmas Eve I went out at 4am to do some shopping. Yesterday I had the kids help me bake cookies for Santa. My first mistake was having the kids help me bake cookies for Santa heehee They actually did pretty good, they decided to make Reindeer Cookies. I got the recipe off of Landolakes.com. Do not, I repeat DO NOT, waste your time on these. BLEAHK! We had to send T out for the Christmas M&Ms (eyes and nose) and Pretzels (antlers) and seeing as how he's a big BAH-HUM-BUG Scrooge he wasn't happy about facing those last minute shoppers. But he went and lived to tell about it. The kids fought over who was doing what, but Queen Kerigan (my 9 yr old) had them under control. Bryce and Justin handled the sugar dumping and Justin got to mix the peanut butter into the mix. Or at least he tried to - he said he couldn't do it and I told him to make big circles in the dough with his spoon. He screamed "I can't it won't let me!" I was crackin up :-)

I haven't been around for a while but I will try to get on more often - we're still on the laptop and it's just a pain in the ass. That's what I get for my laziness and for having a Poolboy that's practically computer illiterate (I'm gonna hear shit for that one LOL) Merry Christmas!!