Whew.

I must wipe my brow a minute before I sit down and type a post about nothing. Just felt like I needed to give you something to look at before you forget all about this.

So, we've been busy with birthday parties and Christmas parties and programs (photos to come soon) and homework and shopping and all that is good and well with the season. I love the pre-Christmas holiday sprit, but wish it could be extended throughout other holidays as well so there wasn't so much pressure to constantly celebrate -- school things, neighborhood things, this/that and the other things.

And in the midst of all of this, Greta is wrestling with the awakening concept (thanks to a school lesson on Kwanzaa) that people come in different colors. And, ever the "organizer" and "controller", let's just say we will need to be talking up Black History Month in our house a little bit....

Meanwhile, Clara is beginning to learn that all is not right and equal in this world either, and that candy canes are really good, and a teeny tiny piece of a candy cane is NOT equal to the candy cane her sister gets to eat so LOOK OUT world -- Clara will not stand for such injustice. Literally. In fact she is sure to sit or lay down and let her opinion be heard.

Chris and I will enjoy a very brief outing tonight to his work Christmas Party which is always pretty nice. The sitter is our neighbor Sarah whom we all love, in fact I shouldn't really call her a sitter. Since she had her first child 2 years ago she has resinded all sitter responsibilites and payment, and now we just help each other out, although I must say we need her help more often than she needs ours. She has more friends I guess.

Anyways, we are also trying to convince Greta that -- wish as she might-- Santa is NOT going to bring her a trampoline this year, but after 2 birthday parties at the gymnastics academy she is hooked. Neither Chris nor I want her to get into gymnastics, but she sure is loving the trampoline.

I will try to post some recent pictures soon, and be a better poster.