Excuses, Excuses…

I keep making excuses when anybody asks me “what ya been doing, you haven’t blogged?” or if asked like I was recently if I am slacking because unlike last year when I had a flurry of things to write about Christmas, this year I have done very few. I keep saying “Oh I’ve been busy.” but really have I? In reality, nope, no busier than last year. I mean I’m not doing nothing at all, I’m working and keeping the new house in shape and I have had some really busy weekends lately. So what have I been doing you may ask?

Well I have no real excuse except to say I haven’t been really drawn to write and I have been kind of short on money this year so I have been doing things with my kids (yes Markus is still MY kid, just not A kid.) for example Katrein and I made snowflakes, and all of us made and decorated sugar cookies, Markus is quite the cookie artist!

And well the usual Christmas things we have to do, oh I will just show you.

My little cutey is getting to be quite the dancer, she had a Jazz dance and a Hip Hop dance in this year’s Christmas recital. I wish I could upload a video but it never works for me, oh well it was a great show!

We had the Girl Scout Christmas dance this year again the ‘Snow Ball’, Markus did the DJ thing again which the girls just love!

Then we took our annual Christmas trip to Mall Of America, which Markus almost missed due to a trip to Urgent Care for a torn back muscle, but after a handful of drugs he was able to join us. Little does he know that his sister had me trapped in the new American Girl store for two hours before he arrived, which meant I also needed a handful of pills! (And a shot of whiskey)

Katrein is the daredevil child! (like me) so she had to check out the new rides that were added when the park became Nickelodeon Universe, like the SpongeBob Rock Bottom Plunge which not only goes upside down several times it goes straight up at the start and straight down!

Then this crazy ass ride that is just a U shaped track and as the “board” you are connected to flies back and forth, up and down your seat also is spinning!
Katrein’s face after ride

So these are just a few of the things I have been doing and this weekend will be no exception, with last minute shopping and trying to track down Santa Claus so Kate can see him it’s been busy but like I said I may have been doing a little slacking to….for the good of my family