I have been excited for the holidays ever since I saw the first leaf fall, back in September. My kids are at this cherished age where Christmas is perfectly mysterious and magical. Elsie walked into Best Buy last week, saw a blown up penguin and Christmas lights and yelled out as is if she'd struck gold, "Ho Ho (Santa) lives here!!" Liam has been filling Elsie in on what Santa Claus does, and his terms of being good and leaving carrots for his reindeer. He has also erroneously telling his sister for a month, "You'll go to sleep and wake up and then in 2 days, we're going to Nana and Papas house and it will be Christmas Eve." The count down to Christmas has begun.
The days leading up to Thanksgiving I was all sulky and home sick. Both of our families were getting together for huge, everyone-but-Dani-and-Brady-sized gourmet Thanksgiving dinners. I was too nauseous to deal with a turkey and worried Thanksgiving just wouldn't pan out this year. Fate (and my moms prayers) were on my side and I ended up feeling fine enough to cook and although we skipped out on turkey we had a quiet, but charming, Thanksgiving.
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the kids did a great job on their gingerbread house, i don't think i told you on your last post but CONGRATULATIONS on the pregnancy! (even though it sounds like a very rough one- i totally feel your discomfort). Hope the nausea lets up enough so you can enjoy the holidays with your family. We are going to be up in L-town Christmas day through new years day, and if you are down in the SL area before then PLEASE stop by we'd love to see all of your beautiful smiling faces!
Liam, I'm so glad you are explaining how Christmas works to Elsie. I am going to be going to see Santa soon, is there anything you need me to tell him? Are you going to be in Utah? Should I make sure he sends your presents there??
Love you!
Grandma Krystal
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