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Hello people! My name is Kellie Ann, and I used to post here quite a bit. That was back before I had this baby in my dotage and said baby spent a week in the NICU right before the holidays. Then the baby demanded every ounce of my energy and attention. And then I pretty much stopped posting here...or doing laundry....or dusting my furniture...or fixing my other kids' lunch...or regularly trimming my toenails. It has been an interesting seven weeks.... Baby Jack has decided to sleep six hours at a time for the past few nights though, and it has totally and completely changed my outlook on life. I woke up today and immediately started uploading and editing all 466 photos and videos that have been festering in my camera. Then I went and grabbed the feather duster. Then I put it back without using it. Baby steps, you know. I just put him down for the night, and I figure I have about an hour before my eyelids start to droop. It came down to either working on my thank-you notes for baby gifts or updating my blog. I flipped a coin and the thank-you's won. So I flipped it seven more times until blogging won, so here I am. (It's not that I'm not thankful for the gifts. I AM!!!! We were just so blessed that now I'm overwhelmed, and I always handle that emotion by procrastinating.) This was a super weird Christmas season for us. Christmas is usually filled with a lot of shopping, crafts, events, parties, baking, etc. Well, I found myself this season telling the older two kids to put on a Christmas movie while I fed the baby and then proceeding to pass out cold for the next two hours. Then I'd wake up and start all over again. In the evenings I would feed Jack, pass him to Big D, make a mad dash to the local Target and Kohl's and shop for about an hour and half until my....ahem...nursing parts let me know that I needed to get home to feed the baby again and pass out cold. I told you it was a weird season. I feel like I owe you something though here on my blog. Some token of Christmas, even though it is more than two weeks ago. So I present my fast-paced, energetic drive-through look at our Christmas...without the nursing parts.
We did have a tree. We just didn't drive to a tree farm to get it like we usually do. Considering that Jack had just arrived home from the hospital on Thanksgiving Day, we didn't think that wise. So our tree came from Lowe's....but we liked it.
I did put out our collection of Nutcrackers, but that and the tree were about the extent of my decorating. And speaking of Nutcrackers....
Despite all the craziness and chaos, Annaleigh still maintained her now seven year tradition of performing in "The Nutcracker". This year she actually played the role of the nutcracker prince, which she...well, ummm...she didn't really like all that much. I think it may have had to do with the huge, heavy hat and the weird mask and beard, but I'm just guessing. Above are some clips from her performance. The first one is kinda long, about five minutes, and the second one is only about a minute from the finale. I included it because she got to take off her dreaded mask for the bow. Although I didn't bake anything, I did get one of those pre-fab gingerbread houses for the kids to put together. I did manage to pull away from the suckling for a few moments in order to snap some festive shots, break up one fight, and eat three fingerfulls (is that a word?) of icing.
Here the older kids went to Build-a-Bear to make Jack his Christmas gift...
Speaking of Jack, he spent most of the season staring at the lights and wearing cute Christmas outfits....
So, is it a good or bad thing when the stocking is bigger than you? As we near the end of my Christmas drive-through, I have only one more thing to say....
That is NOT my house. I hope you all enjoyed a wonderful, Christ-centered holiday! I'll be by soon to say howdy on your blogs. And very soon I'll be blogging about the most insane, ludicrous gift we ever gave our kids. It was a doozy. |
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