Earful

Policy of Truth

Life can be terrific and terrible simultaneously.  That has certainly had proof of concept in our goings on in 2011.  I stumbled on this song and started working it out just because.  I have never adored Depeche Mode… they’ve always been the more danceable cousin of things I actually held dear to my heart and danced my legs down to the knees with.

But when I started to sing this song it actually felt like a pertinent end cap to 2011.  So for all my truths that I let fly like metal shavings in a magnet factory, and every consequence that came home to roost, I dedicate Policy of Truth to each and every one of my faux pas, with love.

I am really holding out hope that 2012’s summative song is something like “Big Rock Candy Mountain”, or “The Hills are Alive (With the Sound of Music)”.

policy of truth

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Tamara

We DID Celebrate Christmas!

Life has been a challenge lately.  We have a variety of relationship issues (relationships outside of our own with friends and family, not our marriage, that is) and dealing with all of that stuff plus losing Calvin was a major blow to our holiday season, and just to life in general.  So after Calvin passed, we took a big break from reporting on our life to collect ourselves, reconsider things and regroup before moving on.  The relationship stuff – bleh – it’s still a mess, and I still tear up daily when I think about that kitty who I love and miss so dearly, but I recently found a nice little bright star hidden away.  Earlier this week I came upstairs and uploaded a bunch of the pictures of snow to our computer (as an aside, it is rare when we actually use a desktop now, thank you ipad).  I thought there were only going to be pictures of us frolicing in the white stuff on the card, and imagine my surprise when I found a collection of very happy Littlejohns opening up gifts and laughing together on Christmas morning.  While it is nice that other people come here to see what we LJ’s are up to from time to time, the purpose of our blog is to scrapbook our life events, to create a timeline that will help our kids as they get older to remember their childhoods.  So it makes sense, that though almost a month later, we post these for posterity.  Merry belated Christmas!  Enjoy!

Baked goodness waiting for Santa. As a 'science experiment' we offered both milk and egg nog to the big man. Guess what? He drank BOTH glasses!

Look what Santa brought! Make-up, barbies and scrapping stuff for Girl and Transformers, Super Why and a fishing pole for Boy.

Happy. All of us so in love and SO happy.

Daddy opening Gigi's special magnets that she made at school for us.

Daddy and his two favorite Christmas gifts.

Jude's favorite Christmas gifts! Thank you Santa!

3D books require 3D glasses. And they look AMAZING on too! Fashion and reading all in one gift!

Gigi gave ME scrapping stuff too! Guess how we have been spending our spare time?

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Jude Said

Chicken Dinner

The kids are upstairs brushing teeth and washing up. Apparently it was a race because I just heard Jude protesting, “That’s not winner, winner chicken dinner, Gigi!”.

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Tamara

How to Make a REAL Sno-Cone

Well, the first step is the most difficult.  You have to broker a deal with Mother Nature and get her to dump enough snow on your lawn to cover up all the gross stuff so you can eat CLEAN snow.  I’m not going to tell you what we did to arrange for this little snow festival, you can figure out your own deals with Mother Nature.

(After I did this, ALL the flavoring was up to him. Lets just say it was a VERY flavorful sno-cone!)

The second step is to get in the hot tub, naturally, where snow clothes are not an issue and clean up from the sticky syrup is a breeze.  A bathtub will offer the same clean-up abilities.

Heap those little paper cones that you bought last summer in a round, ice-cream cone shape.  This is a very important detail when you are three.  It NEEDS to look like ice cream!  Then hand the sno-cone syrup (also purchased during the summer) over to the three year old because, seriously, do you think the three year old is going to let you handle the syrup?  Let him go nuts with the syrup as you have been storing that stuff for months and it is taking up precious real estate in the fridge, then, when the idea occurs to you, tell them to eat as many cones as they want as this will use up the syrup even FASTER.  (Note – they have eaten only two sno-cones, not exactly the resource mover I thought it was going to be).

Sit back and enjoy the wonder that is a sno-cone.  Really though?  The sno-cones made of actual snow are amazing.  The syrup doesn’t water down and drench the snow, it sticks to the snow leaving it fluffy and kind of dry.  The cones are delish, a total new snow day tradition!

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Jude Said

Toilet Swing

Our son is an inventor.  Yesterday while at the park being pushed on the swing he said, “I wish this was a toilet swing.  That would be so fun.”  Really.  A swing toilet combo, while in theory, might be an excellent idea, a fun idea, but in reality I think that would be pretty messy.  Yep.  I think we”ll pass.

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