Birthdays! Music! Rashes! Playing Favorites And Causing A Need For Years Of Therapy! All In A Days Work For The Killians!
Oh, and they start to stink. Toddler feet are lovely. Kid feet, not so much.
(Maggie fit in her Christmas stocking when she was born! And, yes, that is her with the very dark, not blonde hair. Also pictured, my pretty mother in-law).
2. Gabe finally got healthy. . .and then developed a head to toe rash that the doctors blamed on medication (the one Gabe and I were BOTH taking), and then blamed on a virus when it got worse. We really don’t know. The only thing that three clinic appointments agree on is that it isn’t contagious. So why have I been so quiet? I’ve been living at the doctor’s office!
3. I sang at the adult session of Stake Conference and lived to tell about it. I think it went ok. If you would like to hear me sing. . .I could post the video of me singing at the Commissary Idol Contest that I won awhile back and just never got around to blogging (not likely). . . OR you could show up to a FREE Christmas Nativity Festival being held on December 19th at 2700 Camrose Ave in Fairfield, CA from 5-9pm. There will be food, gorgeous nativities displayed and live music. I’m the live music at approximately 7:20. YIKES.
4. I had a nagging thought in the back of my head that I had grossly underestimated the number of presents purchased for each child. This thought grew stronger when my in-laws dropped off gifts and Maggie had twice as many as the boys. I stayed up late one night to haul all the wrapped boxes out of the closet and WHAT WAS I THINKING? – Maggie has a whopping eight more gifts than Jonas. YOW. Now, granted, a huge Lego set costs more than a tiny fairy doll, but while I tried to hit that concept home to Jonas, I think he understood it in an intellectual way, but come Christmas morning it would be a purely emotional response while he sat and watched his sister unwrap gifts for another 20 minutes. So I bought a few more things. I didn’t go crazy, just evened it part way, and I think I’ll re-wrap a few of Maggie’s gifts together in one package. That or wrap up a few candy bars for Jonas.
I know life isn’t fair, and that is an important lesson to learn. . .but I don’t think Christmas morning is the best time to teach that lesson.
5. Have a Lovely Day, on this one week before Christmas!]]>
< ![CDATA[My kids all asked for rather expensive gifts this year, so I kid you not, they're each getting one gift. Christmas is gonna last approximately five minutes! We did go and buy each one more small thing so they'd at least have one thing from us and one thing from santa, but I'm kind of dreading having to teach the christmas-is-not-about-gifts-and-lets-be-grateful-for-what-we-have lesson.
You've been busy as always. I participate in our stake program as well and loved it so much. I'd never done Handel's Messiah Hallelujuh chorus before but I'd do it again! Good luck to you!]]>
I wish I could hear you sing, but I’m too far away so you’ll have to post it online!! I imagine you have a beautiful voice!
i agree with it not being taught on christmas.
My son’s birthday is Dec. 19. He just turned 11, his feet are gianormous!! LOL!