Christmas

No matter what is going on, kids make it hard to not smile on Christmas.  Some of the funniest/most heartwarming things.

When Josh came out to get his toys from Santa, he went into the other room.  I wasn't sure what he was doing, but he was looking for the present for his dad.  He wanted to make sure he gave it to him first.

When J opened his bow and arrow:  "Santa gave me a weapon!  I can't believe I actually have a weapon!"

I heard "Best Christmas Ever" several times!

On Christmas Eve I put Simon out about 12:30.  He was barking and I went out to hear what it was all about.  As I looked around, I was about a half dozen 'rein'deer.  What was cool was that there were then footprints in the snow so the kids could see the marks.  Then, they even saw the sled marks.  Too bad they aren't smart enough to figure out that the sled marks were from there own sledding adventures the day before.

This demonstrates it all:

Christmas Prep?

I want this to be positive and I guess that is why I don't post as much as I could.  I don't want to be a Debbie Downer.  November/December is always a busy month and I always feel like I am more behind than ever.  At least Dan took the kids for a few hours yesterday and all the Santa presents are wrapped.  I still have to wrap other presents and clean.  Right now I'm feeling sort of miserable--I'm hoping that will pass but I need to get moving quickly while I can still move in case I have a dreaded flu.  It doesn't help that my back/hip are in so much pain and I have problems moving.  Oh, and water is not draining in the kitchen.  So, no washing dishes or clothes until we get a plumber out here and figure out what is going on.  We are going to try to wait until the day after Christmas since it's not really an emergency.  We can still take showers and use the restroom.  But, things could always be worse  In fact, they are quite good this year.

Sad

It is so sad to hear about the shooting in CT.  I keep picturing M's school and superimposing the events at her school.  How could anyone do that to little kids?  How could this happen?  Security has amped up at M's school but is it really that secure?  I don't know if anything could have stopped this.  I hate that my kids know that there are bad people out there like this.  M's first response was at least all those kids are in heaven. I find comfort in that but the rest is just sick.