Enjoying our family-favorite Christmas movie on TV… with Carter's classic concerned movie face and Meg shoveling popcorn into her mouth with both hands. Good times.
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Grandma B planned a super fun party for all the cousins on that side of the family – and I am not kidding, it was all the Christmas fun you can handle!
The kids had a great time making antlers and ornaments, going on a treasure hunt, decorating gingerbread, doing the cereal gift exchange (I loved this idea!), finding the pickle ornament, making reindeer food, and watching the grinch.
I told you… all the Christmas fun you can handle! It was such a fun afternoon! -
I may have mentioned it before, but I can't get over how cute Meg is with babies. She snuggles one over her shoulder often during the day, patting its little back, shushing it, and saying in the funniest little voice, "Baby CRY-ing!"
I tried to sneak up on her this day and capture the magic…
And then I was spotted.
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I had bought some silver nail polish to paint Emma's fingers for the holidays – and after watching big sister Meg kept insisting, "Some! Some!" I thought: no way – she won't even sit still for me to clip two nails in a row, much less wait for painting a whole hand + dry time… but she did, and she loved it!
It took me a while to get used to seeing nail polish on my baby, but now I think it's pretty cute.
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I read somewhere once the idea that sometimes we make the mistake of looking at our blessings as burdens… and as I stood with the broom tonight and looked at the remnants of the fun afternoon we spent making paper snowflakes littering the floor (even after a well-intentioned amateur swept up the mess), I thought of it…
They are blessings. Every one of them… as loud, messy, or intentionally disobedient as they may sometimes be. :) Most definitely blessings. And I am SO grateful.
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