Ho-Ho-Holidays

Whew. This year just flew by. The last day of school for 2016 is over and done. Of course, I nearly forgot to post the last doodle of the year. We had a busy night buying books for Jolabokaflod, which is apparently Finnish for “Christmas Book Flood." If you've never heard of the tradition, you should check it out. They give books on Christmas Eve and spend the night drinking hot cocoa and reading. The boy picked out a book for me and for Papa. I can't wait to see what I'll be reading tomorrow night!


But before we leave you for the holiday, here's one last Christmas joke.

Happy Holidays everyone! See you in 2017!

I Love Those J-I-N-G-L-E Bells

The boy's favorite carol right now is Jingle Bells. I don't know if it's the catchy tune or just that it's the only one he knows all of the words to. When I saw this joke, I knew he would appreciate it.

Happy Thursday everybody!

This gift keeps on giving

If you're a fan of puns, than this is a double gift for you!

It's been a while since I did a knock-knock joke, so I decided to throw one in this week. They seem to be the most fun to share at the lunch table.

Hope you're all having a great Wednesday!

Christmas countdown!

How did it get so close so fast? I'm pretty sure I'm not ready for it to be Christmas yet. We had a crazy bust weekend celebrating the holiday early with my side of the family. In my mad dash to get everything ready for our overnight trip, I forgot to post Friday's doodle.

Reindeer are my favorite 💕

The boy didn't go to school yesterday because he had minor surgery on his foot. He got to spend a day on the couch playing video games after post-surgery milkshakes. No doodle for yesterday though.

Today, we hopefully get back on track with the first of our Christmas jokes.

Hope your holiday week is off to a less frantic start than mine! Happy Tuesday!

Run, run, as fast as you can

In case I haven't already mentioned it, we've done some serious Christmas cookie baking here in the past week. Chocolate chip, mint m&m, mint Christmas trees, raspberry flowers, mini sweet potato pies. I'm proud to say I've also managed to avoid burning myself this year, which may be a first. One holiday staple that never seems to make it into my baking rotation is the gingerbread man. Maybe closer to Christmas I'll give it a try.

Happy Thursday everyone!

Must've taken a wrong turn

Weather forecasts are calling for a rapid drop in temps here. I've heard reports of it dropping to the teens and single digits if you factor in the wind chill. For my New York family, that's nothing, but for those of us who aren't used to it, that's frigid.

Seeing how the cold weather seems ready to stick around, I doodled another cold weather friend today.

Hope you're having a happy Wednesday!

A little backwards

So, decided to take a break from snowmen because I realized I've been drawing a lot of them lately. I wanted to keep in the holiday spirit, though, so we still have a festive doodle.

Ho-ho-hope you're all having a great day!!

They see me rollin'

Things have been a bit frantic here the past few days. Some crazy lady signed me up to donate six dozen cookies to the PTA cookie exchange for the teachers. Okay, the crazy lady was me. At least my house smells delicious. I'm also happy to report that those six dozen have been made and then some.

I'm blaming today's late post on the baking.

I should have come up with a joke about cookies. What a missed opportunity. Hope everyone had a lovely Monday!

Take it to the bank!

It was pretty chilly here this morning. I think it dipped into the teens if you take the wind chill into account. Still no snow though. It's a beautiful, clear, wear-two-pants-for-your-outdoor-recess-monitoring-shift kind of day. I continued our snowy joke theme anyway.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Oh, balls!

So, after another day home from school, we were vomit free and gave it another go. He did report a tummy ache twice today, but no sickness. Fingers crossed we're actually done with the stomach bug this time.

Here's the doodle that went to school with the boy today.

The boy liked it. He also liked replacing snow and substituting different types of ball for the punchline. It's fun watching him make new jokes. Hope you all had a great Thursday!

All in the family

So, the boy made it through the entire day of school yesterday only to throw up in the hall on his way out the door. That means no school again today. Luckily (for me, not his Papa), the boy's bug has been passed to his Papa, so Papa stayed home sick today too.

Even though I'm not sending him to school, I packed a lunch and drew a doodle before remembering he wasn't going to school. So, even though it's technically a sick day, the doodle will be posted.

Hope your houses aren't filled with pestilence like the Gilliam house. Happy Wednesday everyone.

The weather forecast is a lie

First thing's first. I didn't forget yesterday's post. The boy was sick, so no school, so no doodle. Luckily he's feeling better, so we're back on schedule, kind of.

I drew today's doodle thinking it would be perfect since the forecast called for snow. It's the first time it's made the weather this year. Of course, we've only had rain. 

Maybe soon we'll actually see some of the white stuff. Happy Tuesday everyone!

Shocking!!

This little yellow face is so easy to love.

Pikachu loses much of his muchness when he's in black and white, so I decided to color him in. I didn't expect the markers to run so much on the paper towel. He looks like he has windburn. It's appropriate for this blustery day. I'm pretty sure the boy will still love it.

Happy Friday everyone!

Christmas countdown!

About a month or so ago, we bought the boy an advent calendar. It's not filled with cheap chocolates. It's filled with Lego figures. He's stoked. He's been counting down the days until December 1st so he can begin opening doors. You would think this would lead me to make today's doodle about Christmas. Or Legos. You'd be wrong on both counts.

Yesterday's Pokemon doodle was so popular, that I continued the trend. The boy's lunch table also tries to come up with their own jokes now. We went on a zombie joke tangent today. They were terrible and wonderful all at the same time.

I promise that we will get to Christmas and Winter jokes soon.