WHEWWWWW December...
It's almost over isn't it? So much going on. I can't fit another thing into this month... well I will try not to. We started off our December like we have for the last decade--- at Disneyworld. I know I should not complain but the magic for me has worn off a bit. It is like a symbol of materialism at its finest. Everywhere you go you keep with the subliminal message BUY ME! Spend, eat, indulge. We go to Disneyworld for the spouses business every year. He is gone during the day and I am hand in hand taking the pups to all the parks! This year we had the nice fortune of meeting up with our good buddy Iris and her family. It was nice to have friends to enjoy the parks with.
While in Orlando I went and picked Oranges and Grapefruit at the same place we went last year. Abby and Matthew fought and bickered the whole time until I pulled out my phone to take a pic and then they acted like best friends (rolls eyes).
We did enjoy the parks at DisneyWorld. Matthew and Abby love going to this free area in Epcott where they have soft drinks from around the world. Matthew in particular liked the Watermelon tasting drink from China. Look at the expression on his face!
On a rainy day we met up with my Mom and her Husband Jerry. I had this great idea to check out the ice sculptures at this hotel called the Gaylord palms. Ice slides! Ice Sculptures! Hot Chocolate! Parkas! How fun can that be??? uhhhhhh let me tell you COLD does not cover the depth of freezing ass temps we endured. I was like all excited---- bragging to my kids how we would slide TOGETHER how we would see some Artistic Sculptures. The show is INCREDIBLE. The ice is carved by Chinese Artists.
I started out all peppy and excited... we went from room to room. It got colder and colder. Not only was it cold they had it circulating around you.
It was 9 degrees. It does not sound bad but when you are wearing a damp parka and your kids look like Ice cubes themselves...well I started to think about bulldozing a bunch of fat tourists trying to get to the darn slide so we could get the freezing hell out of there. Room to room we moved... like Penguins to the water, shuffling along in anticipation of the DAG GUM ICE SLIDE. At some point my Mom EXITED to warmer air. I kept thinking this is Hell. FINALLY we arrived to the much anticpated uhhhh waaaaaa?? THAT is the ICE SLIDE we just traded our money and the ice walk of death for? It looked like a frozen version of the cheap playground slides you can buy at Walmart. I quickly became hypothermic crazy Mom. I was like CLEAR THE FRICKIN way my kids are going down and we are getting the heck out of here. My kids were like Mommy aren't you going down the slide? Heck NO!!! Matthew pauses at the top of the slide... I start doing the pyscho MOM yell GO DOWN THE slide honey... slide down... louder and louder then finally MATTHEW RYAN ABERNATHY if you don't slide down that slide RIGHT NOW, I AM COMING UP THERE!!!! There he went puter, puter, puter at the speed of say.... ice melting maybe. His fanny moved down that darn slide like molasses on a cold winter day! I grabbed him by the hand almost knocking down some fat lady and got the heck out of that place. Did I mention how beautiful the ice sculptures were?
Not only did the kids have a great December ending in the Birthday of Jesus, so did our lovely orphan cat Olive. She is a MESS. She took to sleeping in the tree during her terrorist downtimes. She is the wildest, craziest cat we have ever known. Here are a few shots of her I barely got because she is constantly moving and into trouble.
And FINALLY my non furry children on Christmas Morning. See you on the other side of 2010! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
While in Orlando I went and picked Oranges and Grapefruit at the same place we went last year. Abby and Matthew fought and bickered the whole time until I pulled out my phone to take a pic and then they acted like best friends (rolls eyes).
We did enjoy the parks at DisneyWorld. Matthew and Abby love going to this free area in Epcott where they have soft drinks from around the world. Matthew in particular liked the Watermelon tasting drink from China. Look at the expression on his face!
On a rainy day we met up with my Mom and her Husband Jerry. I had this great idea to check out the ice sculptures at this hotel called the Gaylord palms. Ice slides! Ice Sculptures! Hot Chocolate! Parkas! How fun can that be??? uhhhhhh let me tell you COLD does not cover the depth of freezing ass temps we endured. I was like all excited---- bragging to my kids how we would slide TOGETHER how we would see some Artistic Sculptures. The show is INCREDIBLE. The ice is carved by Chinese Artists.
I started out all peppy and excited... we went from room to room. It got colder and colder. Not only was it cold they had it circulating around you.
It was 9 degrees. It does not sound bad but when you are wearing a damp parka and your kids look like Ice cubes themselves...well I started to think about bulldozing a bunch of fat tourists trying to get to the darn slide so we could get the freezing hell out of there. Room to room we moved... like Penguins to the water, shuffling along in anticipation of the DAG GUM ICE SLIDE. At some point my Mom EXITED to warmer air. I kept thinking this is Hell. FINALLY we arrived to the much anticpated uhhhh waaaaaa?? THAT is the ICE SLIDE we just traded our money and the ice walk of death for? It looked like a frozen version of the cheap playground slides you can buy at Walmart. I quickly became hypothermic crazy Mom. I was like CLEAR THE FRICKIN way my kids are going down and we are getting the heck out of here. My kids were like Mommy aren't you going down the slide? Heck NO!!! Matthew pauses at the top of the slide... I start doing the pyscho MOM yell GO DOWN THE slide honey... slide down... louder and louder then finally MATTHEW RYAN ABERNATHY if you don't slide down that slide RIGHT NOW, I AM COMING UP THERE!!!! There he went puter, puter, puter at the speed of say.... ice melting maybe. His fanny moved down that darn slide like molasses on a cold winter day! I grabbed him by the hand almost knocking down some fat lady and got the heck out of that place. Did I mention how beautiful the ice sculptures were?
Not only did the kids have a great December ending in the Birthday of Jesus, so did our lovely orphan cat Olive. She is a MESS. She took to sleeping in the tree during her terrorist downtimes. She is the wildest, craziest cat we have ever known. Here are a few shots of her I barely got because she is constantly moving and into trouble.
And FINALLY my non furry children on Christmas Morning. See you on the other side of 2010! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
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