Crowns Galore

Man, this year is flying right on by! Can you believe that Thanksgiving will be here in about 2 weeks and Christmas in less than 60 days!? This is crazy! I feel like just yesterday it was the middle of August and the kids were asking to go to the pool! Any who! Let me focus here, my year has been so busy! The kids have all been growing like weeds, eating us out of house and home, one school year ending to another one beginning not only for the kids but for myself. With the new school year came school activities and field trips, homework, fundraisers,  study time, housework, family time and so on and so forth. With everything happening and things always going on, I found myself lost in a never ending cycle of daily routine. I became a walking Mombie, a Mom Zombie (see what I did there?). I was functioning but there was little brain activity going on. It's like my mind and body were on autopilot and I was just moving to get things done. I felt like the scene from one of the Shrek mo...

Ok, so we do not believe in the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus and we teach our children that these tales do not exist. Since this is the Christmas season I will just talk about Dear ole' St. Nick. All of our boys know that Santa Claus is not real. We chose at the time they asked to just tell them truth and not hold up a charade, that was our choice. We explained to them the story about a man named Nicholas who was called a saint because he would leave candy and trinkets in the stockings left outside of the doors of the poor families with children. It gave the family's joy and hope when the children awoke to receive their gifts from dear ole St. Nick. As the years went on and time passed they, whoever they are, added to the story and turned him into some mystical being with a sleigh and reindeers who travels the world giving gifts by sliding down folk's chimneys. And some parents have adopted the story and allowed their children to believe it. Me, personall...