I am so glad to leave the last day of November behind. I will spare you the details, but Danae, David and I all had the stomach flu yesterday. In a word - Horrible. But we got through it and it's over and I'm completely ready to take on the month of Christmas!
My shopping is done, the gifts are wrapped, and I have our book-a-day-until-Christmas books pretty much ready. We're going to start that today, although I don't have quite 48 books. I wanted one per child per day and didn't have quite enough, although I did buy a couple new ones this year. The Scholastic website was my friend. I planned to make a library run for the last 9 books but with being sick that didn't get done. I'll probably do it tonight. Hopefully the kids won't notice that the stack grew :) I think the kids will be thrilled to find new books when they unwrap mixed in with their old friends as well.
Christmas gets more fun every year as Danae "gets it" more. She is very excited to dig into the gifts under the tree and we are focusing as much as possible on baby Jesus so she understands the true meaning of Christmas.
We also wanted her to have the fun of giving gifts this year so we took both kids to Dollar Tree and let them pick out gifts for each other, a couple of friends, and mom and dad. It's hilarious to see the things they pick out! She keeps talking about how she got to go "shopping." The whole thing was kind of lost on David, but he'll understand it better next year.
Right now I have Christmas music blasting and the tree lights on. Happy December!
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