Christmas haiku

Wrote some Christmas-themed haiku with my students today.

Santa in his sleigh,
reindeers prancing on my roof -
they better not poop.

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Down the chimney he comes!
Oops - our fire was still lit,
so he burned his bum.

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(This is what happens when you spend every day with teenagers. Yikes.)

recently i'm... (22)

Excited about: Obviously. The auction!!

Looking forward to: Um, everything about Christmas. Decorating, baking, family, friends, parties, snow, giving gifts, no school, New York, laughter, the smell of Christmas trees... everything!

Listening to: Christmas music! There's a chance I might be obsessed with some Michael Buble Christmas songs. Don't judge.

Swamped with: Grading. I have dug myself into a hole. Or rather, I have buried myself under a mountain. A dismal, growing mountain of essays, diary projects, college portfolios, 7th hour tests, and journal entries... with research papers on the way.

Sewing: Yeah, this has been on the back burner since I finished my last project. Which I don't think I ever posted pictures of as promised. Oops. Here's one of the dresses.

My apologies to those of you waiting on orders. Next up: a onesie for Debbie! I have some really fun ideas for projects, so we'll see if I get to those in time to create some Christmas gifts...

Watching: It's been awhile since I watched Glee. I made the mistake of watching a recent episode on Hulu two nights ago, and I almost threw up in my mouth. The show exists now solely to be as sexually provocative as possible, I'm pretty sure.

Obsessed with: Christmas mint M&M's. Delish.

Baking: Made double chocolate cupcakes for my small group girls last night. Mom's recipe for chocolate frosting = divine. Though... when I was trying to get creative with the frosting, some of it ended up looking like... well... piles of... you know. Poo.

Trying to remember: 10-on-10-on-Saturday.

Working on: Slowly but surely gathering documents for our home study/dossier.

Off to: make dinner!

** Edit: I randomly remembered the Radvent project I did a little of last year, and went to the blog that started the project. Today's question:

Have you ever taken a trip that changed your outlook on something, inspired you to consider a new worldview, or helped you fulfill an important goal?

YES. You can read about it here!

ADOPTION AUCTION!

The auction opens at midnight!

Be there, or be square.

http://partonadoption.blogspot.com

(and please, do us a favor? tell your friends! thanks!)

2011 mastheads

January 2011: 
um, this one is missing in action. Oops.

February 2011: I got that boom boom pow

From "Boom Boom Pow" by the Black Eyed Peas

March 2011: intellectually credible and existentially satisfying

I almost didn't use this, because it was a David Platt line talking about Christianity... it seemed a little self-absorbed to use as the tagline for my blog, but I couldn't stop giggling about it...

April 2011: no fiddle-diddling

From our class trip to D.C. - our tour guide kept saying this when she wanted us to hurry.

May 2011: less than ordinary

From "Story of Love" by Mandi Mapes. "Just like the sun lights up the moon, this love is a reflection of more than just me and you. Our lives were less than ordinary and while I couldn't see past tomorrow, God was making history. What a beautiful story of love."

June 2011: peanuts to an elephant

Whoops! That's from a Li'l Wayne song. How did that get on here?

July 2011: this grace that i've received, i want to show you

From Mandi Mapes's song "This Love". Doug & I did our pre-screening for adoption in July, and this song is about adoption.

August 2011: rockin' the suburbs

From the Ben Folds song/album. Celebrating one year in our first house.

Sept. 2011: sharing rainbows of happiness

The best fortune cookie I have ever gotten: "Loving is sharing rainbows of happiness." I still don't even know what that means.

Oct. 2011: a giddy thing
From a Mumford & Sons song - "Sigh No More"

Nov. 2011: i guess i have got my swagger back.
Image stolen from the Internet - cover of Jay-z & Kanye album Watch the Throne. Line is sort of from their song "Otis".

Nov. 2011 - 2: every day, a day closer
The last one just seemed too cocky. And too gold.

Dec. 2011: peace on earth, good will to men

o friday night

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[1] Don't love getting Christmas trees in the dark, but we didn't want to wait any longer!

[2] Doug & I with our concolor. Um, it took us approximately 5 minutes to find this tree. I'm usually pretty picky and want to look at every single tree, but I loved this one as soon as I saw it!

[3] "JT" telling Doug about the time one of his employees accidentally tied a tree on a car in such a way that he tied the family inside the car... oh, JT. He loved helping us...

[4] Love this little place - Mary's Farm Market. Plymouth/Canton residents - get your tree here!

[5] Tree topper! It's become our tradition for me to put the star at the top.

[6] "Look at me!"  

[7] Zooey, basking in the glow of Christmas...