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Outside my Window… It is dark. I’m writing this after the babies are in bed and I’m enjoying a glass of wine. Today, though, was beautiful and we spent as much time as we could in the backyard because I know a storm is preparing to blow in and our normal winter weather is going to be fast upon us.

I am thinking… about the upcoming momaha.com website! I just submitted my first post today, an introductory post, and am so excited for the website to open next week! I’ve seen the beta and it’s fantastic! I’ll be meeting the mom team for the first time later this week and I’m really looking forward to it.

I am wearing . . . a chocolate brown t-shirt, jeans and bare feet.

From the school room… right now we’re just focusing on reading, reading, reading.

he’s just absorbing like a little sponge. Current favorites include the Country Angel Christmas by Tomie de Paola, and all of the rest of our Christmas books (because they’re “new” again) especially The Polar Express. I did not get anywhere near finishing our Jesse Tree ornaments, (frankly, I just painted the fronts and had hoped to get the stickers off the backs before I painted them, but alas, half are still stickered and none are done. Maybe next year.) but I do hope to print off a few Jesse Tree/Advent related coloring pages for Lloyd and we’ll do a few Jesse Tree/Advent related lessons here and there in the next few weeks.

I am thankful… for having a wonderful conversation with my sister, Andrea, this morning! I don’t think I’d announced it yet (oops) but she is expecting! And her due date is a week from today (see? big oops!)! She is more than thrilled and I look forward to visiting with them shortly after the baby is born. Just waiting for a call!

From the kitchen… Gluten and grain free work for us in terms of losing weight, which T. and I are both working on. So, more of that. We had a cheat day/weekend last weekend and are now buckling down until Christmas. Not sure if I’ll make any Christmas candy or cookies this year (since I may be out of town for several days visiting with my sister) but we’ll see . . . I do have a rather large Christmas cookie cutter collection that might have to be dusted off to make my gingerbread. Maybe I’ll bring them to Michigan . . .

I am (still) creating…homemade Christmas gifts. I’m hoping to baste the quilt by this weekend and I still have all the crafts I’d been planning for on the back burner.

I am reading… The Blessing of Christmas.

I am hearing. . . quiet. It’s a nice change from the remainder of the day.

Around the house… The Advent and Christmas season is upon us! I know that there are some Christian and Catholic families who don’t put up their Christmas tree until right before Christmas, and I certainly don’t argue with their tactic and argument behind this, but I confess, I am not one of them.

For me, it’s tradition and it is what gets me in the mood and mindset for Christmas. Our Advent wreath is front and center (literally, it is one of the very first things you see when you walk in our front door and has a major focus of our living room) but I can’t wait that long for my tree.

In other news, Lloyd is, once again in love and totally enamored with his children’s nativity scene and it gives us ample time to discuss Mary, Joseph and Jesus. He is beginning to understand that Christmas is about Jesus’ birthday, and he is looking forward to it!

Maybe he’ll make up some

One of my favorite things… is my home, decked out for Christmas.

A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week …

• Pray for guidance, patience and grace as a mama of two. And for some conclusion and peace of heart and mind for some specific prayer intentions for our family.
• Still. Crafts, sewing and more crafts. Pray for me, my sanity, and my paint-stained and needle-poked fingers.
• Story time at the library if everyone is feeling better. We’ve had two sick kiddos here the past few days. If not, we’re heading to the library anyway by the end of the week – they have some more Christmas books on hold for me. . . .

A Picture Thought to share -
Advent, the season of waiting. Preparing. Prayer. I’m feeling it big time this year as we wait for my sister’s baby, to welcome her into the family.

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