Shake your groove thang!

Jeneric & Toddler Wily received a dancing game for Christmas - and convinced Grammy and Grampy to get down on the dance floor!




(Check out the crazy dancer in the background!)

Christmas Manicure

Jeneric received nail polish for Christmas! She found one volunteer for a pint-sized manicure.







And Grampy wants to know if Grandpa is next!

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The winner of our Holiday Card Donation Challenge: Doctors Without Borders. We're writing a check for $77.60. Thanks to all who voted, commented and enjoyed our blog this holiday season!

Happy Holidays

May you have a Peas-filled






Holiday Season (ing),


and a Hoppy New Year!




From all of us at Wily Jeneric!

Bright

Wishing you a bright, decorated holiday season. Clothing optional.

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BTW, the answer to yesterday's post? Although the girls were making paper chains, Toddler Wily preferred to think of the glue stick and the paper as a helicopter.

Chain, chain, chain...

If we don't get to link up with you this holiday season, hope it's happy, healthy and full of new ideas!

Bonus feature for today:

Every unique commenter to this post will generate an extra $5 donation to the charity that wins the Wily Jeneric blog vote (currently in the lead: Doctors Without Borders). So go ahead, comment - and tell us just what Toddler Wily is creating from her glue stick and paper!

From Our Fort to Yours

May your holidays be creative, imaginative and just a little bit silly.

Happy Holidays!

We're baking up some winter fun. Hope you're having a tasty holiday season!

Merry Christmas

From our little Whoville to yours. May Horton watch over you and keep the Grinches at bay!

Dear Blog Readers

Here at Wily Jeneric, we look forward to and take pride in putting together our annual Holiday Cards. This year, however, we find ourselves several weeks behind schedule with no hope of catching up.

But lo! an idea was born.

Instead of putting ourselves in a tizzy with photography, editing, printing, mailing, etc, we wondered if we could cut out 3/4 of the work and post our Holiday Card to the blog. And then we thought why limit ourselves to a single card? Why not offer up several cards over the course of the holiday season? And then we thought hey, we'll save a lot of money doing this. Why not take the money we save and donate it to a charity? And THEN we said why not let the dear, loyal readers of Wily Jeneric pick that charity?

So here's the deal, dear readers of Wily Jeneric. In the upper right corner of the blog, you'll see a poll asking you to pick the charity to which we should donate our Holiday Card Savings. Vote early and vote often. At the end of this post, you'll find links to each charity so you can do a little research to cast an informed ballot.

In return, we'll post multiple Holiday Cards each week, culminating December 24 with the Card we intended to print, sign, seal and mail. Along the way, we've got at least one contest planned, designed to generate more income for the charity.

The children were nestled, all snug in their bed.

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Click the links for additional information on each charity.
1. Heifer International
2. Doctors Without Borders
3. Union of Concerned Scientists
4. Feeding America

And for those of you who want in-depth financial reporting on these charities, check out GuideStar.

Answers!

1. Grandpa Art's card was an example of Alternating!

2. Santa and the girls shared... overalls! And you can see that Jeneric was brave enough to sit on his lap! We overheard her gift request: a hula hoop.



The photo below is a bit like Where's Waldo, but left of Mrs Claus, you will discover 2 overall wearing girls, who are very intent on the story.

Matching Santa?

Pictures to come...but first any guesses:  What did Toddler Wily, Jeneric, and Santa all have in common this morning?

Also any bets on who was brave enough to sit in Santa's lap?!?

Pop Quiz

For those of you not at Grandpa Art's 90th birthday party, can you guess what Jeneric has illustrated in the card on the left?

Orange you glad?