Taylor Grace's Birthday

We celebrated Taylor Grace's birthday tonight with the family. She was so sweet and grateful! Her big present this year was a REAL birthstone ring. She loved it, but didn't get to wear it because the stone is loose. When opening presents she truly showed GREAT appreciation for what she got. She is growing up. It is hard to believe that it has been 10 years since she was born. Time flies and makes me so sad. She wanted to stay up until 8:14 which was the time she was born. She watched the clock and then we hugged. I told her how proud I was of her, so smart, beautiful, thoughtful, sweet, and a Christian. She just hugged me tight and looked teary eyed. It was a special moment shared between us. She then said thanks mom!!!

A "Whacky" Christmas

Taylor Grace performed at school tonight using Boom Whackers. Her class had to read the music to the Christmas carol, Oh Come All Ye Faithful and whack their boom whackers to the music. Taylor Grace had the A note. They did really good. Their music teacher, Mr. Cole, even said how great their class did.

What Taylor Grace thinks about Santa

We went to see the lights in Stadford Park tonight as a family. It was great! The while neighborhood decorates and has a competition for the best decorated and the public viewing it get to vote. We picked a traditional beautifully decorated house, which happens to be one of my friends, but truly believe that it was beautiful. We also voted for one that had a real Santa in a sleigh

I just over heard a phone conversation that Taylor Grace was having with her friend Sarah Parsons about Santa. They were discussing all the things that they believe is real about Santa.

Taylor Grace said that one time when she was 8 years old she had to go to the bathroom, so she ran really fast. Once she got back in bed, she said she couldn't go to sleep. While she was trying to go to sleep she was looking out the window and "all of a sudden" saw some red lights. "You know like the ones that reindeer have on the end of their nose". Then she went into another story about last year Santa left a note for her and Mallory and it had black finger prints on it. She said that she compared the finger prints to her mom's and dad's and they weren't the same. Then she went outside and saw really big foot prints that lead to her front door. She said that her chimney was locked and Santa was magical since he could get in the front door while it was locked. So sweet to know that even though she is 10 she still believes in the magic of Christmas!

A Video Message From SANTA!!

A friend of mine sent me this GREAT website that you can create a message from Santa. It is so believable even Taylor Grace at 10 believed it. It is www.portablenorthpole.tv It was so neat to see the both of them watching it. Mallory dropped her jaw when Santa showed her picture in this Naughty and Nice book. She asked, "Can Santa see me when he is talking to me on this video?". She has talked about it non-stop. Taylor Grace was amazed by it too. She just watched intently and smiled really big. Oh how I wish their innocence would last forever!!!

I broke my FOOT !

I was determined to get the Christmas decorations down out of the attic before going back to school after Thanksgiving Break. John had tons of leaves to rake in the yard, so it was Me doing it by myself. (mistake #1) I was in the attic going through boxes getting my favorite items down one by one instead of the big boxes that were harder to manage. I have my brand new big wooden reindeer that I got at the end of the season last year in my hand. I was walking down the attic ladder front ways (mistake #2) and lost my balance and went tumbling down the steps. I landed on my foot and new immediately that I had broken it. Thanks to Casey L. working at the Orthopedic Doctor was able to get me in first thing Monday morning. Now I have a BIG BLACK BOOT that I am sporting with all of my cute Christmas outfits. Oh, and the worse part is that it is my right foot, which means that if I drive with that lovely boot on, I am not covered by insurance. BUT I know that God was watching out for me because it could have been A LOT WORSE!!!

LOTS going on at the Pearson House!

I haven't updated in about a week, but that is not to say that nothing has been going on. First of all, this was REPORT CARD week for the girls. They both did VERY well. Taylor Grace made Principal Scholar, which she worked very hard to get, and Mallory did great on her's too. She doesn't have letter grades. K-3 grades on standards. I am so very proud of both of them.

John built our first fire in the fire pit for this winter. We all sat outside and had some good family time around the fire on Friday night. I love days when things are laid back and we can all just relax and "smell the roses".

Then, poor John woke up this morning all stopped up, the head that is! He hasn't felt good all day, but I got him some FREE nose spray at Rite Aide that has pepper in it and he said that it opened him up BIG time. Who knows if it is allergies or a cold. Whatever it is, I hope he feels better soon and especially before this weekend since we are going to the mountains with friends. In between naps, he took the dinning room seats off the chairs so that I could recover them. You read right, I was able to recover the dinning room chairs by myself. Well, I say by myself... I cut the material from tracing one of the pre-existing material from one chair and then I hope to have John or Grampa John help me get them stapled. They are turning out so pretty. It makes me feel so proud to have done something so domestic!

Now everyone is quite and asleep getting ready to start a new week.

Sensitive Taylor Grace

Taylor Grace had a friend over today that she said doesn't have many friends. The conversation about how the play date went started after supper. She and Mallory were eating some lemon bars that the little girl brought from home to share with us. Taylor Grace said that the little girl always brings things when she goes somewhere to be nice because she doesn't have very many friends and is trying hard to make friends. She then told me about the little girl buying TG and another little girl popcorn at the school fair, but didn't have enough money to buy some for herself. Taylor Grace started tearing up and so did Mallory when she was talking about how sweet this little girl was. We talked about being friends with everyone and to think how they would feel if they didn't have many friends. Taylor Grace said that she was going to "talk up" her friend so that more people would be the little girl's friend. The little girl is a sweet little girl, she is just a little different than most because she is really smart. The rest of the evening, I could tell that TG was thinking about it because she would add more to the story and later told me thanks for giving her tips on being friends with everyone. It is conversations like tonight that make me realize that her heart is in the right place.