Adventures in La La Land

1. Another Christmas come and gone. It was wonderful as usual. After finishing my blog last week, Justin helped me put all the presents under the tree. We don't do Santa, but I like there to be a big reveal on Christmas morning. Well our "Christmas morning" is actually Christmas Eve morning . . . Levi got really excited about pretty much everything he opened. Since my overnight cinnamon rolls failed, I got up early on Christmas Eve morning to make these " Easy One Hour Cinnamon Rolls ." The failed almost as miserably. I'm thinking my yeast was too old. We ate them anyway.  Stella got a couple presents too! We actually only opened a few presents in the morning because we had to get to church. We're heathens, and usually skip church if it interferes with our Christmas plans, but Justin had to teach Sunday School this year, so put a pause on present-opening and went. But we jumped right back into it when we got home.  The aftermath The big hits this year we

1. We had a fun week filled with festive activities. Unlike all the public schools in our area, our Christmas Break started on Monday. I still worked at Once Upon a couple days, but I was thankful to have my days off of library so I could get stuff done! I had somewhere to be every night this week, so I was glad to have the day to finish up shopping and clean my disastrous house. 2. To kick off Christmas Break, our Advent Activity for Monday was ice skating . . . and Lena was the only one interested. 🤦 Lucy and Levi stayed home, while Lena and I trekked out to the indoor ice skating rink. We're both abysmal skaters, but we had fun trying! Truthfully, I didn't do that much skating. The ice skates hurt my bunion so bad  I didn't last long. But Lena was happy to skate laps while I sat on the bench and watched. 2. That night we got to meet Baby Lainey!  Middle name twins! She's so adorable, and she ignited my baby fever something fierce. Unfortunately mean ol' Justin w