December 21, 22 & 23

Seriously, Christmas is Wednesday.  I can’t believe it’s about to be here, over and done.  Craziness.

For Saturday’s kindness advent we babysat.  And it just so happened it worked out just right for us to babysit sweet Delaney and for her momma and daddy to enjoy a little dinner and shopping.  This was kind of one of those advents that is completely awesome in the fact that Delaney is seriously like the easiest baby ever, Courtney bought us pizza and we got to watch lots of Christmas shows on their cable.  What, what!  I sent several texts telling them to take their time coming home because Harper and I were enjoying our girl time and their cable tv.  Kindness is so hard sometimes.

Yesterday’s was pretty simple.  Small Kroger gift cards + empty Kroger shopping carts = hopefully surprised Kroger shoppers. The end.

For today’s advent we are taking some friends a recipe for dinner and all the ingredients.  And it’s a really simple recipe too.  The simpler, the better…in my opinion.

Tomorrow we will be taking in our neighbors trash cans.

In other Christmasy news…we started off our first day of Christmas break with donuts.  So delightfully yummy and sprinkled to perfection.  God bless Krispy Kreme for being open on Mondays when our Shipley’s is closed.

We had our first little Christmas family fun yesterday with my brother Chris’ family.  Each kiddo got one present.  They took turns opening and the current opener got to sit on the couch while everyone watched.  It was really cute.  It’s hard to express the deep sadness that goes along with watching these kids and knowing how much Mom would have just loved this year.  How crappy it is that she never met Amon.  Makes me weepy.  Holidays are kind of like that now…joy and sadness mixed together.

Tomorrow the festivities continue.  And we press right on into Christmas day.  I’m doing a little last minute crafting and grocery shopping today.  Makes me a bit giddy.  Hope you enjoy your eve before Christmas eve.

Happy Monday.