Saturday, December 22, 2012

Not your typical playroom: Home for the holidays!

I took the kids up to LA to spend Christmas with my mom.  Joe will be here for the weekend and Christmas, but he has to work quite a bit next week.  And since Liam is off from school for two weeks I thought I'd seek refuge with my mom and in-laws.

Staying at my mom's house is always wonderful.  It's the house I was raised in so it will always be home to me.  But it's also home to my mom's photography studio.  Kathy is taking the week off from shooting so she's turned her studio into a playroom for the kiddos!

Crawl mats for Marlo and a plethora of toys!

Light reflectors for the optimal playtime experience 

Make-up station for dress up

A rainbow of photo back drops for art time!

My mom even moved out of her room for the week and gave us the master bedroom!  She spoils us!  

Oh, and I got my two front teeth!!!  
Hello Gorgeous!  Okay, not a gorgeous picture of me, but compared to the picture of me with crazy teeth - this one is a winner!  
 
I was in quite a bit of pain and had to take a shot of this baby.  It actually did the trick - go figure!



Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!! If you didn't get our holiday card, here is the photo we used, sans cute "all you need is love" message. 
 
 
I am a Johnny Apple Seed holiday card giver.  I give them to everyone.  I LOVE getting holiday cards.  I know many people throw them away.  But I cherish them.  I display them until the end of February.  I look at them frequently - they make me happy.  When I was younger, my mother would display our holiday cards from each year, and by the time I was a teenager, I got quite a kick out of seeing how we all changed from year to year.  We now have three holiday cards as the Friedman family.  I can't wait to display them all 20 years from now when our children are older.

Side note: the camera really doesn't lie.  I love our holiday card, but after we took the picture, I realized that we had acquired an animal in our family and it was living on my head.  So, yes, we got rid of the family pet - I cut my hair.  It's still long, but it doesn't look like I have a cat sitting on my head.

Oh, and I will be posting some video from Liam's holiday show at school.  There were some hilarious moments.  I just need to edit it!  Happy Saturday!




 


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