Adventures in La La Land

I did it again. I accidentally deleted half of the entry I wrote. Seriously. I am not 10 years old. I've been blogging for many years and using a computer longer than that. How do I keep having this problem? Ugh. I was mad and shut my computer in favor of taking a nap this afternoon, and just remembered I never finished this. So here's a quicker version of the original: 1. We had a wonderful Christmas. Everyone came to us this year so I didn't have to go out in the snowy cold. We ate lots of good food, got lots of great gifts, played lots of great games, and enjoyed spending time with family. I'm going to save all the pictures for the end, so hold your hats . . . 2. It was weird having Christmas on a Monday, because Justin and my mom went back to work on Tuesday just like normal. My dad took the day off and helped me take the Christmas tree down. I'm not usually as  efficient about being done with Christmas, but the tree was so dead and the pine needles were so ...

1. Lucy puked a few times Sunday night and got out of going to school on Monday. It's inevitable that Lucy will have the flu around Christmas. I think she has every year since she was a year old. But at least she got it out of her system quickly and before her class party and the other various Christmas events we have going on. She actually felt fine on Monday, so she and Lena played together all day and we made some fun ornaments. 2. Tuesday was the girls' school parties. It was the first year I had to bounce back and forth between them since their parties were on the same day at the same time. I feel like it was kind of a fail. Every time I'd switch to another class they'd be in transition between activities so I missed a lot. Oops. Levi loved tagging along Bean bag toss - she got all 3 in a can. She definitely didn't get her hand/eye coordination from me. He found some cars. Pin the nose on the snowman Lucy is in a "no pictures...

1. Wow. I feel like we crammed so much into the past week! Last Saturday the girls and I went to see "The Star" movie. I was a little nervous that it would be heretical and I've heard almost no reviews about it, but I was pleasantly surprised! It was cute and surprisingly Biblically accurate. I mean, it was definitely a fictional representation, but they referred to Jesus as the King of the Jews and the Son of God, they bowed before him, etc. And at the end a little blurb came on the screen saying, "We took some creative liberties in the making of this film, but tried to stay as true to the most amazing story ever told as possible." Impressive! 2. Watching movies/reading books about Jesus' birth since becoming a mom has a whole new meaning for me. It's actually kind of heartbreaking to look at that sweet baby and know what will happen to him. It's horrifying to think of it from Mary's perspective. You know that song "Mary Did You Know?...