Live from the field - an EMERGENCY

So tonight I bring you some action blogging, complete with iPhone photos.

So there is this new creature in our lives...his name is Cheers.
He's an elf.
He is an awesome elf, that came with an awesome book and he is single handed-ly persuading Finn into a 1st class model citizen, based completely on his arresting manner.

You see! Cheers (named by Finn) is a Santa spy......at night he high tails it for the North Pole to check in with Santa, doing the usual naughty or nice reporting. And then in the morning when Finny wakes up! Cheers can be found in a NEW location in the house.

Well! I must say that Cheers, just tonight has overseen Finn picking up ALL his toys, eating a HUGE dinner (usually an enormous feat) and handing out LOTS of extra please, thank you's and some additional hugs and kisses. And it's SO darn cute, because after he knows he's done something well...he glances up at Cheers outta the corner of his wee little brown eye.

So TONIGHT! When Finn gobbled down the delicious dinner Nick made us......he wanted a treat! Pretty standard in our house....since dinner time can be rough. Finn gets a treat when he eats a good dinner. SO....good dinner! Good manners, good consumption.....Finn is giving Cheers the thumbs up...."Mama! Get a Treat!"

So I start looking. If you know Nick you know he has a MAJOR weakness for sweets. That is why we don't have any in our house. I am digging through cupboards, checking shelves, freezer for some summertime leftover ice cream sandwiches.....NOTHING.

And then I remember this:
Given to me by dear friend Kresha...I had been hiding it away from NICK for my own chocolate emergency and it ended up that Finn needed it more than I. So we cracked it open, and the emergency chocolate bar SAVED the night.


This is Mama Keaty, reporting live from the kitchen in somewhere Hyde Park, Chicago, Il
Good night.