Mimi Day. Miss B was so excited it was Mimi Day.

Government shutdown- longest in history

Clay has been working with no pay for over a month. The day it opened back up Kinzi came home from school and was telling her mom & dad about her day. In the background she heard the TV saying they ve opened the government. She said "Hooray the government shut up!" (As opposed to it being shut down for so long.

Sweet Kinzi left Mimi a note in my mailbox.

Holibration

Shelby came in and said "With all the cars outside I thought it was a Holibration!" I think she meant celebration. And she was quite disappointed to find out we weren't celebrating. And as we were reading books she said "Mimi, read to your own, I'm going to take a little nap now." and Boo's pronunciation of Salmonella is Salamanilia.

New year- counting my blessings !

Gavin "tooted" and said "that wasn't me". Shelby said "yes it was stinky." Then Kinzi was begging me to go upstairs and put make up on when I was drinking my tea. Finally she said "Mimi let's go upstairs and put on make up so we dont look like old smelly ladies!" And as shelby and I were putting away Christmas decorations she told me "I dont really like nutcrackers, they kind of scare me out". (I think she meant freak me out)