Merry Christmas!

Our photos were taken by the wonderful Liz Thomas.

Cuppa Joe

Come sit and have a cuppa joe with me! If we were chatting over coffee (or tea...or Diet Coke...whatever your poison is), I would tell you:

 

My hair has always been a little bit wavy, but since having my children it has become CURLY.  Them hormones can do some crazy things.  I was getting increasingly tired of fighting with the curls every morning, trying to straighten them.  So the last time I got my hair cut, I mentioned to my (totally wonderful) hairdresser that I was ready to just go curly.  She immediately started gushing about how much she loved the idea and how I just needed to "own my curls."  She cut my hair so that the curls would really come alive.  And let me just say....THEY'RE ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!  My hair is full-on, rockin'-it-80's-style, curlified.  And I kinda love it.

 

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Sam is pretty much done with a nap.  I still think he needs one, but we're definitely in the gray area.  If he does take a nap, we often struggle at bedtime.  So most days he just doesn't nap....which makes it pretty difficult for me to post any updates here.  I want to record some of my memories here....but not at the expense of being present.

 

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We don't have an Elf on the Shelf.  To be honest, I had thought I might get one this year, but in the end I talked myself out of it.  I love cute ideas like that---traditions that we can build on every year.  But honestly, it just feels like one. more. thing. to do at Christmas.  And really, who needs that?  So this year, I'm giving myself the grace to say no thanks.

 

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Sam has been talking about his "bird" lately.  I want us to use real names for our body parts, so we had the following conversation.

 

Me:  Sam, it's actually called a penis.  Let's start using that word.

Sam:  Peanuts.

Me:  Close enough.

 

A little while later, Sam was dancing around the living room chanting, "Peanuts!  Peanuts!  I have a peanuts!"

 

Glad we got that straightened out.

 

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I'm reading a couple of books right now.  I've always loved reading, but I haven't been able to really focus on anything since Sydney was born.  It seems like nothing really holds my attention very well these days.  I started Kisses From Katie by Katie Davis a couple of months ago.  Honestly, it's the first book that I've really been able to read past the first couple of chapters.  Then I started a Bible study about the book One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp.  Neither book falls in line with my normal reading selection--I'm usually a fiction-mystery-funny-book kind of girl.  But I'm really enjoying both of these.  What books do you recommend?