Holiday Memories

I am realizing how fast time is going. After having a few drinks with two of Jeremy's aunts (thanks for the fun Laurie & Joan) whose children are grown up, I realize that I need to really enjoy the holidays as much as I can while our girls are young.

This is the time of year that when ANYTHING that is remotely cool is advertised on TV we hear shouts of "I want that" followed by, "NO, I want that!" Soon enough they will want money for Christmas to buy their own clothes and gifts rather than toys.

So that I can relive this year for many years to come I am going to TRY to blog about every day of December this year. (TRY being the key word!)

So, we'll start with the night of November 30th. We got home from our Thanksgiving trip to Des Moines (happy birthday, Dad!). And we started our annual tradition of reading a Christmas book every night before bed. I've been buying the girls each a Christmas book every year since Sydney was born. So, do the math.. that's 8 books so far for Sydney, plus 5 for Hayley, and 2 for Addy. So we have 15 between the 3 of them. (Well, somehow we always end up with WAY more. Darn Scholastic pulls me in every time.)

So tonight we started with "T'was the Night Before Christmas" illustrated by Mary Engelbreit. I just love her illustrations! We all curled up on our new Cozy Sack (an early Christmas gift from Daddy) in our cozy jammies and pointed out all of the cool things in the illustrations.

Ok, so really it was just me and Addy. Hayley was pouting because SHE didn't get to pick the book. Sydney was reading a chapter book because these "baby" books aren't cool. See it's already happening! But Addy and I (read mostly I) really enjoyed it!