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Yesterday was my birthday. Denis and the girls got me a lovely mother’s necklace, and we went out to the local hibachi place for dinner with my family. The girls gave me the best present ever by behaving like angels at the restaurant. Anna was initially horrified by the giant flames, until she saw the [...]
Dear Anna, Today you are seventeen months old. Another month before you are officially one and a half! You’ve gained one of your top molars to bring your total number of teeth to nine, and you’re just on the verge of outgrowing a lot of your 12-18 month clothes. What else is new this month? [...]
Anna is possibly warming up to the snow? At least, she does love her little pink boots! It’s also my observation that Carolyn has improved leaps and bounds in her dance abilities since last year. I was very, very impressed with how much she’s learned this fall!
OK, I’m right up there with Anna’s feelings on snow. Yep. It’s cold. And wet. And the boots I bought Carrie last week don’t fit right. (Side note: she has the skinniest little legs of any child I know, and I can’t zip the things up over tights, let alone socks or leggings – who [...]
I came home from work tonight to candles in the windows. It’s been on my mile-long to-do list for a while now, to put those up, but it hasn’t managed to percolate to the top yet. I do so love seeing those in houses this time of year. I was so shocked to see them [...]
We went to church this morning, and then to the pancake breakfast with Santa after. This Santa was slightly less intimidating to Anna, although that might have been because this time I sat down with her. Carrie was so excited to get to see Santa again that she sat on his lap twice – once [...]
I took the girls to see Santa today. Luckily, Denis met us at the mall after work and we all went together. Yep, that was pretty lucky. Because while Carrie was more than happy to climb right up on that red velvet-covered knee: Anna wanted absolutely nothing to do with Mr. Claus. That’s right. Not [...]
Carrie and I had a conversation tonight about what she might like for Christmas. I know she’s planning to ask Santa for pink ice skates and roller skates with “training wheels”. (I hope Santa knows what she’s talking about, because I sure don’t!) But I thought she might have some other ideas for other people [...]
There was a smattering of snow on the ground when we went out to wait for the bus this morning. Carrie was thrilled, running through the front yard in her sneakers (remind me to buy her some new boots soon!) and picking up the very packable snow to throw everywhere. Anna’s not so sure about [...]