It’s been another busy week around our house…with no anticipation of stopping for another couple of weeks. Who decided to name this “Christmas break”? I’m not on vacation. And even though the kids don’t have to go to school…we have them busy at the house doing odd jobs and helping us.

Between my work..which is experiencing a 25% increase over last year’s sales (normal boost for holidays is around 15-18%)…and AT’s work..I’m wondering how we ever get ANYTHING done. But, in my head, I know the crazy will settle.

AND- I’ve learned not to create a time intensive project for myself…I need to plan ahead. If said it before and never really listen to myself.
Project for this year? We are dubbing all of our know VHS and CompactVHS tapes over DVDs.Chapter cuts, title cuts, descriptions. Yep.
The cool part? We are more than halfway finished with all of them. My family had around 38 VHS tapes and around 40-ish Compact VHS tapes. I will be done with all of these today. whew! Love my Daddy for being the guy behind the camera for all these years. It’s been soooo much fun to watch all of these. I hope my siblings appreciate the copies I’m making for all of them. I’m pretty sure they will.

AT has 20-ish tapes from his Dad. He’s started them. Funny stuff.
And…we have about 8 tapes from GAC’s parents. We did those first…but have to do them again. Yay for learning, right?

What else are we up to?
Well… Pigpen has decided to learn magic. From his magic kit. That he got for Christmas LAST year. : /
And MastaG has pretty much isolated his activities to (unless asked to do something) texting on his phone…or playing his video game.

We finally put up a Christmas tree.

WeePT FINALLY cut her first tooth. It’s been a mean, angry little bump under her gums for weeks. Now? A very sharp little sliver. She’s making the funniest faces. It must feel weird in her mouth.

Slingblade?

Silly baby

And then.. Sunday night, after spending the last 4 hours on the floor playing at a family event…we get home, plop her on the floor… and like a fat little inch worm, she takes off “crawling”.

And so far, she hasn’t forgot. I doubt she will.  : )

(Yes…she’s going after the dog’s Kong)