Should Have Known

Well we should have know eight years ago when Ally's first word was Kitty.....that her life would never be complete with out one of her own. Both the girls have wanted a pet for a long time. We have put off that day for years with the purchase of fish and hermit crabs. The truth as we all know it is they are just a poor substitute for the real live lovable dog or cat. Ally ask very nicely if Dad is still Allergic to cats, and how hard would it be to build a new fence. She continually points out each and every one of her friends that has a dog or cat. She begs to visit the pet store just to look. The breaking point for me was that she gave her hermit crab to her class at school in hopes that if we no longer had the crab surely there would be room for a kitten.

Arthur and I have given in and are letting the kids have a real pet. Samantha would rather have a dog, but due to the many escape routes in our fence Ally wish wins out.
Yesterday I paid a very nice family for a sweet little girl tabby kitten. They have very nicely to keep it a few extra weeks so my kids can have a Big christmas morning surprise. (Arthur's alleries should adjust they have in the past)

Works for me!

We have a lot of family tradition at our house, but this year we are adding a new one. We are going to add another tree to our house. I have a new tree and during the holiday season the kids will make ornaments representing bible stories to add to the tree. For a better idea of this go
here!
For other great holiday ideas go to href="http://www.rocksinmydryer.typepad.com/shannon/">Shannon's blog!

4:00 a.m. Alarm!

I am not a morning person. I could sleep until 10:00 easy. However for the last week and a half there has been this little alarm clock in my head waking me up at 4:00 a.m. I just get back to sleep when the alarm goes off. I am sooooo tired this week. It's hard to turn off the alarm when it's somewhere inside your head.

It's Short!

I really had to hold my breath for this haircut. She has been wanting to get her hair cut short for a little while now. After the lice events in our house the girls hair really needed cut. So, today we made the plunge. The girl who cut her hair was kept trying to talk her out of it. We were both nervous she would hate it after it was done. Once we were a said and finished she loved it. I might like a different cut better, but she loves it and feels great about it.