The Wise Men finally made it to the manger scene on Epiphany.
The whole gang's together.
The next day I put away all the Christmas stuff. This includes the tree, which of course had dropped needles all over the rug in the living room. I know better than to try to use the vacuum to clean those up now, though, because one of my least-favorite things is cleaning out a clogged vacuum. And that is exactly what cedar needles will do, every time.
Thus, I picked up all the needles on the rug by hand.
Fun.
We took the church decorations down that afternoon, and I found that the fake tree there also shed needles. I guess there's no such thing as a non-shedding Christmas tree.
Taking the small chili pepper tree off the table meant I had nothing there. I mentioned to Poppy that it was too bad I didn't have anything for the middle of the table, and she ran off to her room to find something for me.
She made this button flower craft at a school event. Perfect.
A couple of days after that . . .
Cold cattle.
Cold road.
We got around two inches of snow Friday morning. Enough for the kids to play in, at least.
One of her brothers gave Poppy two tiny plastic pigs for Christmas. She decided they needed a nice place to rest, so she made them a bed. She sewed a mattress and blanket for it, too.
She also made some troughs and pig food.
I bought a new mattress for A. and me when I was in town last. When we hauled the old memory foam mattress out, the children begged to keep it to play on for awhile. We couldn't get it to the dump right away anyway, so we left it on the porch, where it became the crash pad for many daredevil jumps from the freezer or the trampoline.
And then, inevitably . . .
Jasper was quite pleased to find such a soft, large bed in his territory and immediately moved in.
I made some more candles from the church candle stubs, which means we have a ready supply for the living room.
I thought using two wicks in this larger hexagonal candle would help it burn down evenly.
It did not.
There you have it! My life, snapshotted.
7 comments:
I wonder if 3 wicks would melt more evenly!
Love that the dog moved in quickly to the mattress!
We always cut up old memory foam to make dog beds.
Beautiful Pic of the candle. I love the pig's new furniture.
Those look like the pigs from Pigmania!
Hey, Poppy's little pigs are from a game our family owns called Pass the Pigs (which is what Pigmania was rebranded as, so commenter Jody above is right). You can find info on how to play by looking it up on Amazon -- if you have the two pigs, you have everything you really need. The actual game would come with a special scorekeeping notepad, but you don't really need it once you figure out how many points each pig position is worth. It's essentially throwing dice but with pigs, trying to reach a certain total to be the winner without going over or getting a configuration that wipes out your score. It takes no time to learn, is really easy to play, and is suitable for kids and/or adults.
love the pictures of the cold cattle and the cold road.
I love that Poppy made a bed for her pigs!
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