(Ten bonus points for whoever comments with an explanation for why the "its" in the title of this entry does not have an apostrophe in it . . .)
Our children have been very patient. Ever since we moved in, we've had boxes to unpack, things to find places for, furniture to buy, walls to paint, pictures to hang, and on and on. Even after I got the last of the boxes moved from the garage to the basement, there those boxes sat, waiting for us to put up enough shelves in the storage room to unpack them and organize their contents.
Within those boxes were most of the girls' toys. But did they pester us to get that last room organized and those toy boxes accessible? Nope. They had a few toys from the easiest-to-reach boxes, and they were just fine with those, never once digging around for their favorite bears or dolls or other fun toys. They just waited patiently. Sigh.
Well, today we sorted the last of those boxes into scrapbooking/cardmaking/stamping/craft supplies (all of which went onto their own set of shelves), Christmas and other holidays' decorations (again, their own set of shelves), Susan's and Kevin's childhood memorabilia (another section), the girls' crafts and art supplies (and another), and board games (yet another). We gathered all the dolls and doll clothes together and the dress-up clothes and stored them in Abigail's enormous closet. We collected all the blocks and Legos to store in Suzanna's closet. And we sorted through the toys that each of the girls wanted to keep in their own rooms: their own bears and dishes and dolls and games, etc. Whew!
Having uncovered Suzanna's Easy-Bake oven in the process gave her the idea to do some baking, so she (and Mommy) made some Easy-Bake sugar cookies and frosted them with powdered sugar frosting colored yellow to suggest autumn (or urine, depending on your perspective). We have yet to sample those. The girls are still too busy playing tea party and singing into Hillary's flower-shaped microphone (a gift--maybe from a birthday?--that she had unwrapped but never opened, so we had fun setting that up today, too) into which they've plugged Suzanna's CD player so that they can sing along to their The Princess Diaries 2 and A Very Veggie Christmas CDs.
What a great day.
Hi there! I will respond to the "its" in question.
ReplyDeleteIf there were an apostrophe added to the word its, that would mean a contraction for the words "it is" was being used. That isn't the case here. Plain as mud? That's what I thought. Again....that is what I thought! Sister Sandy
A Very Veggie Christmas?!? That is either the saddest or the happiest thing I have ever heard.
ReplyDeleteIn other news, Ethan is busy setting up our miniature Christmas city with the little street lights and skatin' pond with real skates who skate!
Kids are good times...
Rob
Ten bonus points to my sister Sandy for knowing the difference between "its" the possessive pronoun and "it's" the contraction! Brava!
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