Christams Cards

Once again my friend Lin Yu Shan proves that a country does not have to celebrate Christmas to sell the coolest Christmas cards. Thanks Shan! I'm cooking the swun gan now and it smells delicious!

These are stickers. They are so cute. I would have died to have stickers like these for my sticker book in grade school.

Lily likes to put them on paper and give a sticker ribbon to the cutest. She says the third from the left won. But I voted for the one with the mail. So she let me be the ultimate judge. You can see his award on his ear.

Violet's card.

I love this one.

I love this one, too. It reminds me of my ornament where Santa is flying in a hot air ballon.

But this is my favorite. It's Lily's.

These are Chinese New Year cards. Is it year of the tiger again already??? It can't be. Rune was born in year of the tiger.

Xin Nian Kwai Le!

Showering is so annoying

I take 3-4 showers a week and I hate all of them. I hate taking my clothes off and freezing. I hate the parts of me that are not being directly contacted with water being freezing. And I especially hate that moment when I have to turn off the shower and open the curtain. FREEZING. I hate waiting for my hair to dry. I hate blow drying my hair. I can't stand that my only choices are having Violet in the bathroom with me and constantly fighting with her to not pull the curtain out of the shower or else I leave her out of the bathroom and find out later what mischief she has gotten into that I will have to clean. But she's too cute to really be angry at and I usually leave her out of the bathroom because it's too freezing to fight with her about the curtain. It baffles me that anyone can tolerate showering every day.

You know what else I hate. Winter and snow. I hate snow so much now that it actually ruins my Christmas.

Dear Grant,
Next time you are applying for jobs I am begging you to consider all localities that skip winter. Rain is okay. Scorching summers are okay. Chaiyi, Taiwan is more than okay. Snow and sub-freezing temperatures depress me and actually make me perpetually angry. I mean, I know you don't read my blog but in case you ever google 'vasectomy blues' and happen to run into it...
love . . . sally

Moved in

Sort of. There are boxes everywhere. The Christmas tree was slapped up yesterday only for the kids. It is supremely annoying to have to put up Christmas decorations the same week you are trying to move in. Especially when your husband is working six ten hour days in a location four hours away and only comes home for 24 hours on Sundays and is therefore completely unavailable for help. He may or may not be done by Dec. 18. His supervisor assures him that there is plenty of money to keep the project going in the event that they are unable to finish by the projected finish date of the 18th. Well thank goodness. Nobody needs their dad or husband around during the Christmas season or to help with the unpacking as long as the project keeps going. Priorities, you know.

On the bright side, I'm connected to the internet again. Which is good because I will have to do all Christmas shopping online due to the fact that there is no husband around to watch kids while Christmas shopping gets done. Luckily I can peruse the blogs of my friends and family members whose houses are not in Chaos and whose family members are all present for happy holiday fun. It will be vicarious Christmas cheer for me because I don't have much of it in my house this season!

And by the way, do plumbers and electricians not need work nowadays? Because I cannot get one to call me back. *shrill scream*