Aunt Kim gave the girls cookbooks for Christmas so we decided to attempt one of the recipes. We made “Fairy Tale Brownies”. As chefs we had complete success. They were devoured in under 3 hours and only with a little help from the 3 hungry girls.
Category: dahlia
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Girls hanging out in The Villages
We enjoyed a day out in The Villages. We shopped, had pizza for lunch
and saw Bedtime Stories. Each girl went home with a mood necklace.
After picking out hers Monti said to me, “Mine will always be colored
grey because that means nervous and I am always nervous.” I have 2
nervous children. Monti bites her nails and Dahlia has started to
twirl her hair till it knots and then she pulls it out. Her hair is
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the wedding of frogette and froggy
Sunday morning is a great time for a wedding and the girl’s were busy planning one. They had found 2 little frogs just waiting to find someone to perform the “froggy” nuptials.
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Christmas morn
Christmas morning was low key but enjoyable. Dahlia and Monti each received American Girl horses. It was the one item that Dahlia said she wanted from Santa in the ER room before she was stitched up. They both have already begged me to let them ride home on the airplane with them in their laps. I convinced Monti to let me crate them up for the plane ride if I added a carrot to the box in case her horse gets hungry.
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Christmas Eve
Joe is doing his best to tease the kids. We all went to Chip and Kim’s house for a Christmas Eve party.
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Twins
Gwendolyn decided to wear Monti’s dress which happened to match Dahlia’s. Dahlia was thrilled that Gwendolyn would want to match her. Gwendolyn did her best to brainwash the girls into being Chicago Sox fans. It looks like she may have swayed Dahlia.
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at American Girl
Each girl received a gift certificate to get one outfit for their American Girl doll. There are probably well over 300 outfits available there so the decision took some time. They came home with a riding outfit, a beach outfit, and a ballet ensemble.
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Passed out
A snow storm was predicted to roll through on Tuesday so we moved up our plans to head downtown Chicago to do some Christmas shopping at Water Tower Place. We left after dinner and all 3 girls were dead asleep within 10 minutes of leaving the house. It was good because we stayed out till about 11:00.
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at the Nutcracker ballet
Once inside the theater we could relax and enjoy the show. Ten minutes into the ballet Dahlia leaned over and whispered to me “Mom why aren’t they singing?” I must agree with Dahlia ballet seems to be lacking a certain something when it comes to telling a story.
