Five Things

Five things I love about decorating the Christmas tree:

1. Zella exclaiming !!!! how each ornament is VERY SPECIAL to her.  She declares a special memory for each ornament even if it isn't hers and she wasn't born when we got it.
2. Madeline recalling how COOL preschool was as she places the ornaments she made on the tree.  It was so COOL she made a reindeer out of toilet paper tubes.  And so COOL she made an ornament out of beads and a jello cup.  Now that she is older and likes to HANG OUT it is so COOL to see what she used to do when she was little.  (Sometimes she is 5 going on 13)
3. Watching Violet hang four ornaments from a single bubble light instead of a tree branch.  It was her first time hanging ornaments and she thought it was very COOL and SPECIAL.
4. Travis wearing a Santa hat doing his job....handing the ornaments out to each girl and telling them about when we got them.  We always collect an ornament when we travel. 
5. Giving each girl Christmas pajamas at the end of our tree decorating party. They were almost as excited as I was.
   
   
   

   

   Zella and Vi



Zella and Madeline reaching high



Papa is the official ornament hander-outer



Mama and Violet



Five ornaments on one branch.  A new record!

Merry Christmas!

Five Things

Five things that exhaust me:

1. A teething baby who is getting two teeth and two molars on her bottom gums.  Poor thing has been battling a fever and a host of other unpleasant teething problems.  She can't sleep. Doesn't want me to set her down. Poor baby!
2. Listening to Madeline and Zella argue and tattle on each other all day.
3. De cluttering.  Will I ever be finished?  (This is definitely more mental than physical!)
4. Buckling three squirmy girls in and out of their car seats.  Madeline can usually do hers, but for some reason it keeps getting stuck.  This may not seem like a big deal, but to me, it can make or break my mood.  If Madeline and Zella could buckle themselves I could conquer the world.  No, seriously.  I really could.  No not underestimate the importance of self-buckling!
5. Walking to/from the grocery store and trying to grocery shop with three loud, sometimes yelling, sometimes singing/happy girls.  (This is also more mental than physical.)  They are used to going to the grocery store with me all the time, but for some reason they have been so hyper lately.

Numbers 2-4 on this list wouldn't exhaust me if #1 wasn't occurring.  Because I would be getting sleep and for me that is usually all it takes.