Feeling a little yucky, but loving the snow day

After breakfast, Josie had a harder day on Friday. She was battling an ongoing fever, yucky cough and a hand that hurt like the dickens. I actually peeled back the mesh cover on her sling to make sure her fingers weren't swollen and forgot all about the pin that was sticking right out of her new thumb. It kinda scared me for a second.



She's one tough little girl. We've put her through so much in just nine short months with open-heart surgery and now corrective hand surgery. Chris and I both said she has a high pain tolerance that we will never have. God love our sweet little girl.

After the snow storm finally stopped, we had just a little over 11 inches of new snow. It's lovely and puts us even more in the Christmas spirit. It doesn't hurt that Chris and Emma got to start their Christmas break early. I'm glad Chris doesn't mind shoveling or snow blowing snow. The news is predicting another whopper of a snow storm for West Michigan on Sunday. Bring it on!!





While Josie was napping this afternoon, Emma and I managed to squeeze in one more Christmas craft. Do you remember wooden clothes pin angels from elementary school? We a made a variation of these cute little angels using wooden cutouts that I found at Meijers.

You'll need the following items to make this craft: wooden clothes pins or wooden cutouts, paper doilies, a fine tip marker, glue, paint, small brushes, pipe cleaners and any other embellishments like sequins or glitter.



Step 1: Paint the hair on the clothes pin top and allow to dry. We used yellow, brown and black hair to make three different styles of little girl angels.





Step 2: Use a fine tip maker to create eyes and a mouth. I used the end of one of our paint brushes and dipped it in pink paint to make tiny pink rouged cheeks.

Step 3: Take the paper doily and fashion a dress around the wooden clothes pin. We folded the paper around our cutout and then used Elmer's glue to keep it in place. To create a belt, we used a sparkly pipe cleaner around the waist of the angel.

Step 4: Embellish the angel with more glue, glitter and sequins. We even used some of my left over silk flowers from the Chinese ornament project.



Aren't they cute?



Here's to hoping that our Saturday is a fever-free day for Miss Josie. Please continue to keep her in your prayers.