Odds and Bits.

'Odds and Bits' is what Kal [my favorite non-family person blog] uses from time to time to title her posts and I hear it in my head when I am posting miscellaneous things like today. Incidentally, Kal posts to her blog every day but Sunday and has not posted since Wednesday. She is expecting her first baby any moment, it's probably happened already. There is great anticipation with her blog readers as you can see by the amount of comments, I can't wait to see her next post!

I finished my Christmas cards today. I apologize to you for boring you with yet another vision of our San Diego family picture on the beach. Most of the people on my list have never seen my blog so the photo may be brand new to them, you however, have been blasted with the images again and again. So, sorry about that my friends, but I'm just taking a little bit more mileage from that wonderful photo session we had in August!

Has this ever happened to you? These are two pieces of mail I received recently that still had the postage stamp intact. Is it stealing if you pick them off and use them again?



I love this because it is Wyatt's first animal picture. My kids very often ask me "what animal do you want me to draw for you Mommy?" My usual and predictable answer "a giraffe please." Just look at it's sweet face and handsome giraffe body! LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. IT!



Sarah was chosen to be the "Queso Grande" in her class this week. The Big Cheese. We sent photos to class and she wrote in a journal of the adventures she had with the rat that came home from school with her for the week. She was so happy with that rat. [Don't pay any attention to our half decorated Christmas tree in the picture! We will get to it this weekend, I hope!]



This is a cute letter Sarah wrote to her best friend Ella. At first she was asking me how to spell everything and later gave up. I like it that way, it is so much cuter, and so much more real. She's only six and the spelling will come later! Plus, I think she does well for not yet having any instruction in English. That's right, kudos to my little sweetie(s)...she is bilingual, biliterate, and if I may say proudly, bicultural. I think learning culture and language at such a young age is one of the greatest gifts Tony and I are giving our children and I am darn proud of that! Lucky little ones indeed!



Hope your weekend is warm and lovely and full of soulful Christmas tradition.