You don't pee your pants on picture day...

Today was picture day...for Kinsey and Kaitlyn. We are so fortunate that our child care provides picture day four times a year. This is very helpful for us because photo places around this time of year are CRAZY, to say the least. As soon as you walk in there are kids crying, parents getting frustrated, people even camp out like it's American Idol I think. Certainly not a place for Christmas spirit, even though children are forced into that itchy holiday dress and are made to smile like they love those horrid tights.
We have not ordered pictures in quite a while. And by quite a while, I mean Kaitlyn had no hair in the last set of pictures we have and she now wears her hair in a pony tail..well, I put it up in a pony tail only for her to take it down within exactly 3.5 minutes.
So this morning I gave Kinsey the task of making sure Kaitlyn kept her pony tail in until after pictures. I told Kaitlyn that she could take it out as soon as her pictures were done. She told me ok but in the back of my mind I prepared myself to get the proofs back with her hair down.
The whole drive to pick them up from school today, I was ready to hear that Kaitlyn didn't keep her hair up. Much to my surprise that was not the case when I walked in. Kaitlyn still had her hair up! But that was the least of my worries...
She had on her spare set of pants. You know...the ones you throw in the school bag that they never wear. The night before, I carefully picked out their outfits so they would coordinate and have matching jeans. Imagine my shock when I saw Kaitlyn wearing her PINK CAMOFLAGUE pants!! I asked the dreaded question..."Kaitlyn, did you have an accident today?" When really I wanted to know, "Were these pink camo pants in the picture?" Amy so politely informed me that Kaitlyn had her accident 20 min. before pictures so she didn't have time to wash her jeans before pictures. Awesome! She said that they had to do some creative positioning so that Kaitlyn's pants didn't show in the picture. Doesn't she know...You don't pee your pants on picture day! I can't even remember the last time Kaitlyn had an accident. Here I was all worried about her hair when I should have been worried about packing another set of jeans that would have worked better than pink camo. Next time I'll try to plan for everything!

Fun Filled Weekend

Since Times are Tough...
I decided to save a little bit of money and get the off brand laundry soap. I did very well at buying the "Sun" brand because it was only $1.94. I bought that brand for about three months and saved a lot of money. Recently, I have noticed that our laundry just didn't have that fresh out of the dryer smell that I love! Nothing makes me more unhappy than doing laundry all day and having it smell the same as when it went in. So yesterday morning, as I was perusing Target for any good deals, I broke down and bought my favorite laundry soap for $10.99. It was not a good deal but I spent all day yesterday doing laundry and it was so worth it! My laundry smelled so good I forgot that times were tough and at that moment, I really didn't care. I will probably not go back to "Sun" brand every again.

In Other Good News...
I got another whole section of assignments done for my online class. Only six more meetings and I will be done...in May!!

Finally...
Yesterday Jason and I watched Emma, the daughter of our good friend. She is one of the sweetest girls ever. Kinsey and Kaitlyn love playing with her. I thought we would do something fun so I made some sugar cookies. I bought white frosting and had the girls mix in food coloring to make different colors of frosting. They wanted purple, pink, hot pink, and orange. They frosted their cookies and topped them with different kinds of sprinkles. They were a mess when we finished but had so much fun! As soon as Emma got here, she put on one of Kinsey's ballet outfits and refused to take it off until it was time to go. It was so cute!


Hope everyone has a great week. Only 9 days until Christmas break!!

Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas!