Sonlight Reader Box Day!!

Looks like with all the excitement around here I'll be posting things a bit out of order.  You see, we already had our Box Day but I needed the advanced readers.  I placed an order on Dec. 31.  Yes you read that right, Dec. 31, and we got them on Jan 7!  Which I think is pretty impressive considering there was a holiday in there!  So this is what a smaller Sonlight Box Day looks like and in the next couple of days I'll post what a "reusing" Box Day looks like.

The moment of happiness has arrived!  Sadly, I missed when "The Fed EX Guy" came to the door because my phone was OFF!  I have no idea why so I had to turn it on pronto for the pics.  

I have no idea why he chose to put his foot on it but it gives a good size comparison.  This is where the begging began for one of them to be able to have the honor of opening it. I decided that would not be a good idea just "in case" there were books close to the seam.

This is what you first see...oh the anticipation!

and then the free for all of raiding the box.  Unfortunately it happened so fast that the shots are fuzzy.  

and a favorite was picked.

and the realization that THIS was the book I've been waiting for!  Since it's fuzzy it's Henry and Ribsy.

Because a box makes a swank hat apparently.

and the stack of goodies!

And then it was mayhem as I got the orange labels attached and the realization that I was NOT going to let them start reading them until next week.  They didn't know the reader they were reading on the kindle WAS this weeks book!  It's now the end of the week and my younger son exclaimed on the last page of his reader, "I READ ALL OF IT!!".  Oh the sweet joy of reading!

Guess What's Coming

Oh Ya! Box Day!

There's some pretty excited kids stalking waiting patiently for the FEDEX guy!  And on top of it it's FREEZING outside!  Check out this weather report:

Happy New Year!! 2015

Happy New Year!  May this year be a blessing to you!

New Year's Eve started with a bang when I realized I sort of had a throat-sinus thing starting.  I immediately starting drinking water with 2 drops of lemon essential oil every hour and by lunch I felt well enough to drive to the city to go shopping.  We enjoyed a great day of shopping and eating pizza at our favorite health store, Lucky's, (the best pizza...really!)  and pick up crazy cheap fruit and veggies.  They were out of our favorite donuts but we managed to get chocolate covered bacon donuts....yes...you read that right.  I forgot to get a pic of these and honestly I wasn't up to eating the bacon but my sons say they were good.  A certain mama who will remain anonymous peeled off the  chocolate bacon and ate the  chocolate covered donut when no one was looking.

 Last night the kids decided they wanted to stay up until midnight.  I suspect this was brought on by no less than 3 people asking the kids while we were grocery shopping if they were were staying up.  Normally I wouldn't be game for this but I was feeling pretty good after my lemon essential oil protocol so...I let them....sort of.  Honesty by 11 I was toast and they could have made it until 12 but I let them watch the ball go down in Times Square on the internet and called it good.  The short people were asleep within 10 minutes of bed, I know this because I wasn't far behind and I checked on them.

Though I think resolutions are kind of goofy ours is:  we will DECLUTTER!

Really, I mean it this year.  We've already started on the garage and gasp!  It's almost done which is amazing considering the awful condition it was in.  We moved in when #1 son was 3 and #2 son was 18 months.  They are 9 and 7 respectfully and I had yet to declutter the garage which had become the dumping zone for all things kids.  We are approximately 1/2 done and if my health will hold out I *think* we may be done by Saturday. Yay us!   I will post the before and after's when were done because I'm not brave enough to show just the before without the clean after.

And for a laugh here's what #1 son says he wants:  Lederhosen!  He has asked me for a couple of weeks but I thought after they stopped watching Richard Scarry's Busy Town it would stop but I just overhead some play with legos going on and the lego dude is apparently wanting a pair of lederhosen.  As of course is common, they were not in stock according to how the play went....

I'm still laughing over that one.

They are now carpet skating because it's 20 degrees outside and no snow.  Perhaps I'll skate with them and then start the dinner?