Adventures in La La Land

1. Good news, everyone. I'm feeling much more prepared for Christmas than I was at this time last week! I know you were concerned. On my day off Wednesday, I finished my last minute shopping, then spent two hours wrapping all my kids' gifts while binging The Great British Baking Show! Today I finally solidified my plans for Jesus' Birthday Party and one other time-consuming Advent Activity. And I think  I've gotten all the groceries I need so I don't have to go back to the store before Christmas! Now I just get to enjoy the season! 2. Our Advent Activities were hit or miss again this week. Sunday was our annual Cousins' Cookie Decorating Day.  Brodie was a big fan of his first Christmas Cookie Decorating Day Whit was less impressed Lainey was only a few days old at her first cookie day, so she enjoyed it a lot more this year! Nash and Saylor were sick, so they missed the festivities. We're hopeful that everyone gets their germs out of the way before Christma...

Yikes. I have a lot to catch up on!  1. We started our annual Advent Activities on the first. I've gotten really lazy as my kids get older, and this year's have been semi-lame. We started with Sunday cinnamon rolls. On Monday we did the Fruit by the Foot challenge. Justin smoked us all.  The kids also went sledding, we celebrated St. Nick's Day with presents in their shoes, and I came up with a new idea for a scavenger hunt. Instead of finding things in our house, I sent them outside to find snowmen and Santas and Christmas lights up and down our street among the neighbor's decorations. I let them take my phone so they could take pictures of everything they found (with strict instructions to stay on the sidewalk and not go tromping through people's yards. Lol). 2. Last Friday through Sunday was our weekend of parties. We had 4 parties in three days. First up was a 90s party with some friends. I spent weeks scouring thrift stores for an outfit, when I should've j...