The Most Beautiful Sound...

I heard the most beautiful sound today.  The sound of my dishwasher.  Oh how lovely!  It has been over 2 months since my dishwasher stopped working.  The motor went to motor heaven, and the heating element was rusted.  I was trying to be humble and wash dishes by hand for as long as I could.  It was driving me nuts!!!  My kitchen was never clean!  I couldn't just throw the dishes in the dishwasher and have a clean kitchen in a matter of minutes!  It took forever to wash dishes.  I have Christmas plates that we use every year, but since I don't want extra dishes to wash we have been using paper plates.  My poor Christmas plates have been sitting lonely in the cupboard all month.  I finally bit the bullet and called to have it repaired.  I knew the parts were still under warranty, but I worried about the cost of the labor.  I figure now that I am working extra, that it can be a Christmas present to myself.  I am so excited!  Right now, there are DIRTY dishes in the dishwasher waiting to be washed!  I love it!  I had been using the dishwasher as a big drying rack!

Ah...I am so happy!

Ho, Ho, Ho! Merry Christmas!

You better watch out!  You'd better not cry!  You better not pout!  I'm telling you why!

Santa Claus is coming to town!

Santa came to my shop and Corey brought the kids to see him.  He was so great!  He takes his time to get the kids comfortable with him, and then they don't want to leave!

Abby stayed on his lap and gave me a dirty look when I told her she needed to share Santa with the other kids that came.

Ryan made trips back and forth to him to talk to him.  He wanted to be "cool" like Cayden and act like it wasn't a big huge deal....but we know better.  They all wrote him notes telling Santa they loved him.

When it was time to go, they all gave him a big hug!

Don't adjust your computer, or restart it!  Yes, that is Cayden giving Santa a hug.  We didn't even have to tell him to!  Yeah, I'm serious!

Farewell, What's His Name

Well, this morning we said farewell to What's His Name...our other lizard.  Cayden never really got over the fact that Stubby died maybe due in part to What's is Name stealing all the crickets.  Since I got another part time job, it was becoming very difficult to find the time to go to that stupid Exotic Pets store to buy 10 tiny crickets for $1.  I told Cayden that we should let him go so that he has a better chance of survival where he can get bugs for himself.  He agreed.  It wasn't hard, he still has bad feelings towards him.  You can tell, because he never gave this lizard a name....get it?...What's His Name.

We figure that What's His Name had a reunion with his lizard family and was finally able to put to rest the mystery of what happened to Stubby.  I'm sure that they are going to have a memorial service for him.  Maybe they will serve tiny crickets they found on their own.  Who knows.

Good bye, What's His Name.  It was fun while it lasted.