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Carrie visited Santa again today, and not only asked for a game pleeeeeease, but also asked Santa to bring the doggies new balls. (All of their tennis balls are pretty ratty at this point.) Santa’s helpers are very pleased with this new request. (I won’t confirm or deny whether there was any coaching on the [...]
My poor baby. I tell her all the time, when we see pictures of fire in books, or on the very rare occasion when there is a lit candle, that fire is hot, and dangerous, and we don’t ever touch it. This is a good message to impress upon a very curious toddler, I think. [...]
Yesterday, Carrie and I were at the mall twice – first around lunch, and then for my concert. At lunchtime we walked past Santa, and I asked Carrie if she wanted to go sit on his lap. Since we want to dress her up in her Christmas dress and take a picture of her sitting [...]
We had the first of two holiday concerts this evening. It went well enough – it’s always hard to play in the mall with all the noise and echoes. We have another concert next week in one of the school auditoriums, so that should be better. Since Denis brought Carrie to this concert (it’s much [...]
Last night I heard from the kitchen, “Mommy, I under the mistletoe! I under the mistletoe Mommy, come kiss me!” I tried to keep that sweet, funny little girl in my mind while I endured two hours worth of tantrums this morning. It started out like any other morning, but wound up being one mini-tantrum [...]
You might have noticed that, oh, 8 or so entries over the past couple of weeks just appeared… I wish I had a good excuse. Really, it’s just that I’ve been too darn lazy to get the pictures off of my camera for a while, and then I was so behind it seemed too big [...]
As a child, I always loved Christmas. I’ve loved it as an adult, too, but I’ll admit it lost a little of the magic and sparkle for a while there. But now, watching Carrie experience it all, it’s just as magical as it was when I was a child. Maybe more. This afternoon we watched [...]
I woke up this morning to “Jingle Bells” being sung over the baby monitor. I think Carrie is really excited about Christmas, even though I seriously doubt she understands it all. We’ve done some decorating already and she keeps asking, “Decorate more, Mommy?” We went to a tree lighting ceremony that the town put on [...]
We had one of Carrie’s friends over for a playdate while her mom went to an appointment this morning. It was so incredibly beautiful – in the upper 60s – and it’s supposed to become a lot more seasonal tomorrow, so I decided to put the girls in the wagon and take a walk around [...]
I went to a pre-production meeting for this years’ musical this afternoon. We’re doing West Side Story. I probably ought to Netflix it and watch it again, since the last time I saw it I was in it. (And that was…mumblesixteenmumble…years ago.) Actually, I have a funny story about that. I was cast in the [...]