Thanksgiving at the cabin

So with Christmas right around the corner here is how Thanksgiving went...GREAT! Over the meadow and through the woods to grandmother's house we went...uh... Nanny and Poppy's cabin in Blue Ridge GA, that is.....rustic, colorful, cool and crisp...perfect. I just will never try a huge dinner like that up there again. (Anyone ever tried to do a turkey in a dutch oven in a fire pit? The guys love to cook...as long as its outside in man country. It would be one less thing for me! and a firepit  is a magnet for the kids. They love it.) Anyway,I forgot to bring up a few things... Dad spent a couple of hours in town Thanksgiving morning looking for a potatoe masher to buy. By the time he wasted all that time and got back I had figured out that a strong fork works just fine.

We had TWO turkeys..one deep fried and one baked...cuz the guys simply had to have a deep fried one and I simply had to have dripping for gravy.

Robbie cooked breakfast the next morning and made his usual mess. Dad and I took all the kids out for a hike and left the adults to clean up. They were kids free for a while and I didn't have to clean up..win/win.

Enjoy the pics...notice that Nash is Knucklehead from tip to toe.

Disciplining your Children

I just read a great article that you all should read. It's about disciplining your children in church (not punish) but training them to be "civilized". It's long but well worth the read. I'm going to try to attach it here. I think the same method of training would work at home. It does nothing to just ignore a child when they are having a meltdown. It's hard to break away from what your doing but since parenting is your #1 duty, you simply must. Pay now or pay later in the teen years. You kids all know we didn't have any big behavior problems with any of you...and we attribute it to teaching you how show us respect, and how to calm and discipline yourselves when you were young.....plus having a lot of fun and laughter. We weren't perfect and neither were any of you, but we must have done a thing or two right cuz look how you all turned out.

Anyway read this and see what you think....and by the way, one of the author's children has cerebral palsy which makes discipline all the harder. as Robbie and Shanna know.

   

  http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/070926story.html

cute kid clothing store

M'liss, Melanie and I went to the cutest clothing boutique for kids in Vancouver...Smarty Pants. They carry Knuckleheads and display creatively. 

The girls's jacket in the store window was really cute.

They have a fun area for little kids with a plasma tv and toys kids actually want to play with. The walls were done in a venetian plaster painted gold and rope added for a harlequin effect. Tres chic.

a new grandbaby...and a new blog (first post)

Here we are In Vancouver meeting our 14th...count em'...14th grandchild.




Ruby is good as gold..as long as she is being held. I don't know who she looks like...but I claim the lip!

Melanie and Tyson and the kids were there also...fun to see the kids play/fight....that is not "playfight", that's play and Fight! Nash gave Lily a black eye. Her blows didn't leave marks..smarter fighting.





Mya is such a funny little thing...just like her mom was. She was so excited to see me...when she saw Poppy (he was still in bed) she didn't recognize him right off and she gave him the longest pouty frown that I've ever seen. A while later, with a can of whipped cream, she was all his....he's no dummy.