Creation and Destruction

Today I did some beautiful work. I decorated the tree and house, and I also made some cute little crafty type things for an upcoming Christmas party. It was very fun. The two little boys had a lot of fun too. They helped me decorate the tree. No, actually they didn't. They just threw ornaments at each other across the room. I started out by chastising them and "firmly encouraging" them to put the little red and green balls down. Then I thought, "Aw, what the heck! They aren't breakable, and I'm not using them this year, let them have a war." And they did. And there were red and green balls all over the living room floor. But that's what you have to do when you can't send them outside to play because it's a million degrees below zero out there.

Then I started in on my own little arts and crafts time. All I was doing was making some little envelopes for the party favors for tomorrow night's Christmas party. Lots of cute colorful paper and stickers involved. I should have noticed the eerie silence. You would think I would have learned by now that quiet=bad. Jack and Caedmon were preparing a feast for themselves on the couch. The menu was flour tortillas with butter and strawberry jelly. Mmmm, sounds good huh?! The silver lining is that I now have a freshly steam cleaned couch AND floor.

And let me just say that I would like to personally STRANGLE the man who invented packing peanuts. Here is a visual for you.


Just an FYI, they don't vacuum up very well. I tried my bestest. It seems that they generate an enormous amount of static electricity, those little buggers were stuck to EVERYTHING, including my flannel pajama pants that I was still wearing at 5:00 pm. Haven't pulled a "stay in my pajamas until supper" for awhile. And let me tell you, it felt great. Ok, no it didn't. It felt gross and I don't want to do it again for a really, really long time.