Christmas In Golden

The Armstrongs (and the Elves) are in Golden this year for the holidays! So, the elves have helped pack the girls’ suitcases (and hinted that they shouldn’t be forgotten!), played with Aunt Janne’s Christmas decorations, climbed the Arlt Christmas tree and got into the Quality Street and Purdy’s chocolates…. Just 2 more sleeps and we’ll […]

Elf Mischief

Babysitting, hot chocolate sipping, story telling, tea partying and, as Elodie calls it, “make ups! make ups!”

Oh Those Elves…

The elves continue to surprise us (ok, the girls!) each morning with their evening adventures! They got their check-up by Dr. Molly (named after cousin Molly) to ensure they didn’t all catch the cold that went through our house; watered our plants and read stories to the other toys. The highlight so far, however, has […]

Elfcapades Update!

The Magic Elves continue to be a big hit! The girls tuck them in every night with progressively more elaborate bedtime routines which now include songs (usually Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star), kisses and of course the magic snowflakes which allow them to come to life for their evening adventures! This week Stella the reindeer had […]

17 sleeps till Christmas!

We may design the Christmas card but Belle takes her role as card decorator very seriously – that is until her short attention span kicks in and she moves on to another task! But rest assured the location of each snowman, snowflake or reindeer stamped on the outside of your holiday card was decided upon […]

Pre-Christmas, Christmas!

Since my folks decided they’d rather cruise through the Panama Canal over Christmas than spend it in -20 below Edmonton, we had an early Tousignant-Armstrong Christmas this year! The day started off with a visit from Santa at the Glenora Indoor Playground Christmas party (notice Elodie’s lack of enthusiasm about going anywhere near the jolly […]

Shoemakers or shoe-”breakers”?

The girls are often getting in trouble by finding my favourite shoes and trying to walk around the house in them so I guess it’s not too surprising that their elves, chosen for them by Santa, would have the same shoe affinity! Interestingly enough, Elodie left alone with all the shoes, skips the FLuevogs and […]

Day 4 of Elfcapades

Elf Mischief

Well, the magic elves have been a success! The only drawback is rather than creating one day of excitement where the kids wake up really early and rush into the living room; I think we’ve now created 25 such days in the month of December! Isabelle woke up at 5:30am yesterday to find out what […]

Decking the Halls

The girls were pretty excited to discover their two magic elves, Ginger and Kasey this morning! This, followed by the arrival of grand-maman and grand-papa and putting up the Christmas tree, made for a fantastic day! Isabelle actually requested to go to bed, since once we all fall asleep, her magic elf will come to […]