What do you want for Christmas????

This year may be the last year my children love Santa -- because after He comes they are going to be very disappointed.  This year they both sat on Santa's lap and proceeded to ask him for live animals.  Addie REALLY wants a turtle -- or as she called it a turd-us (combo of turtle and tortoise - don't tease her about it - she's sensitive). And Gwen REALLY  wants a cat.  So as you can see -- they will be very disappointed because neither of them will be receiving their Christmas wish.  It makes me sad -- I even considered it for about a minute - but we don't even have enough room in our house for all of our kids. :)

I am actively trying to help them think of other ideas -- non-living ideas. We will see and hopefully they will not remember this year as the worst Christmas of their lives. :)

What the..?????

So as I blogged before - I had a little problem with a certain sneaky slug that hid during the day and came out at night and made a slug trail all under my dining room table.  Well we caught it a couple of weeks ago and I was very happy.  So you could imagine my surprise when after church on this last Sunday I came home and found another one!!  I went to open the curtains next to the table and looked down and thought - "oh crap, Peazy crapped" -- but then I realized it was not my dogs poo -- it was another - bigger slug!!!!!  It realized I was there and started to "book it" back to the heater vent -- where it hides.  I ran outside screaming for Sam to come and get it - because again, I was not going to touch it.  Well as Sam took his sweet time to get there the slug had got almost half way down the vent.  Sam tried to pick it out but it didn't work so he had to lift the vent out and shake the slug loose. (gross!!)  Anyways -- this time Sam didn't let it have a chance to come back or live - he flushed it down our toilet. (gross again!!)  So unless it has any more sneaky little relatives hiding out -- I hope that this will be the last of my blogging about nasty slugs crawling around my floor.   *** this time I got the camera in time to document :)