And a partridge in a pear tree...

With a busy little girl and an active 4 year old, it's been getting harder to find some time to sit down and actually write a blog post. Usually I end up doing it one-handed like I am now so that I can contain my squirming baby. Otherwise she just gets into trouble if I let her roam. Either that or she follows me, climbs my leg, and whines until I pick her up anyway.

Christmas day is quickly approaching as my list of things to do grows. I keep seeing shows where they make these cute homemade gifts and baked goods. Spiced pecans and caramels... yum! We'll see how ambitious I get. We do have our tree up already and it will probably stay up through mid-January if not the whole month. I still have to get the Nativity out though. Hopefully I can do that this afternoon with Caleb. There's still some shopping to do and gifts to wrap. The holidays are so fun and exciting, but stressful too. We're going to be doing a bit of traveling this year -- not too far away, still in Wisconsin. We'll spend Christmas with my side of the family and then the end of December into the new year with Tim's side. I can't wait for Sonya to experience her first Christmas!! I broke down and bought her the cutest, little dress. It was on sale and I figured that she could wear it a few times at least, right?

Side note: I just got a box of diapers in the mail! hehe... Tim found that you could get a box of Luv's diapers through Amazon for cheaper than the Parent's Choice at Walmart. Plus, they delivered! Woohoo!! I'm loving all these packages I'm getting in the mail. Yesterday, I got my Goodbyn lunchboxes -- originally $25 a piece plus $7.95 shipping for each... only paid $2.95 for each one!! Now, I'm looking forward to getting my pictures and Christmas cards through Shutterfly. We'll see what else the mail carrier has in store for us in the upcoming weeks. :-)

Another side note: I haven't been taking as many pictures lately since our camera runs through batteries really quickly. For some reason, it doesn't like the rechargeable batteries either now. We charge them and they show that my camera has a quarter of a battery left, but they don't even turn Tim's camera on at all. *sigh* I'm not sure if it's the chargers or the batteries.