To catch up (a simple version), this house is:
+ making gingerbread houses that fall apart because little boys eat the corners and then nothing lines up correctly. Then they tell everyone we know that I'm not very good at building.
+ drinking peppermint mocha's & holiday punch at gatherings and by the fire at home.
+ reading Christmas cards & Christmas books! I love them. It's probably one of my most favorite things. Every night we get the mail and gather together to open up the cards to talk about our friends and family and where the card came from. Then before bed we pick one book to read to get us in the spirit. Sometimes, if the book is too long and little boys aren't paying attention we just start singing carols.
+ wanting a snap of something fresh. An adventure, a change, a cleanse of some sort. Hi New Year, I hear you around the bend! :)
+ listening to carols, carols and more carols. Our favorites that we sing nightly are: "Santa Claus is Coming to Town", "Jingle Bells" and "Deck the Halls" but we laugh the hardest at "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas"!
+ playing bingo & snowball fights... fake snowballs that is. They are the greatest invention for our family. Small, squishy cotton balls that you can buy by the bucket full and we love and adore every last one. I have a feeling that within the next year or so, we'll have a bucket in every room. That reminds me, warning to anyone that comes over: snowballs are flying at all times so enter at your own risk. Side-note: Cameron and Tim have been doing a map puzzle of the United States every night. Slowly, Cameron is learning/memorizing the states and they love to talk about where everyone we know lives. He's definitely got Texas, California, Tennessee & Florida down. Don't worry, we're still working on Nevada & Virginia (and all of the others in between).
+ wishing for peaceful and loving hearts.
+ loving family mornings that linger into family afternoons. comfy pajama pants, Christmas shows, cozy togetherness and warm breakfasts. Even if chores are happening at the same time, it sure is nice to not be rushed or scheduled sometimes.
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS IN OUR WORLD LATELY:
1. finding toy cars in the dryer because you're kid hides anything and everything in his pockets and for so long you only checked the adult pockets in this house. not anymore.
2. we may be a diaper free house in time for 2017 and I'm not sure how to feel.
3. Tim loves to "Griswold" our front yard for Christmas and now our street has gotten really into it. The kids love to take the "long way" home just to see everyone's displays.
4. we went to see Santa and Payton was fine talking to him, but the minute that I told him to go give him a hug that kid bolted!
