I’ve been too busy packing, organizing, list making, crying and house hunting to blog much lately. Not to mention that my phone, computer and car all died within a 24 hour time period. I’ve been busy doing adult things which is much less enjoyable than I anticipated when I was 12. I have seventy Christmas things I want to do before we leave and I’m determined to do it all. It’s very important to me that we have as normal a Christmas as possible, even with all the crazy. 

We went to a Christmas party at the library and saw our fourth Santa of the year. Sesame is normally very observant but she hasn’t noticed they all look different and that two of them were less than stellar. She told me she brought her sled and reindeer but she had to leave them in the car “to charge.” There was craft making, cookie eating and face painting. Annabelle loves any event with face painting so she was thrilled to become a mini Rudolph.

“George Bailey, I’ll love you til the day I die.”

By sheer coincidence, earlier in the week we saw the actress who plays Zuzu in the movie at a children’s museum. I drilled it into AB’s head that she played the little girl in the Christmas movie I watch every year. I assumed it was falling on deaf ears but when we were in the Bedford Falls museum she yelled out, “That lady is from your favorite show, Mama!” My job here is done. I have raised her well.

The very short trip from the top of the hill to the bottom gives her the thrill of a lifetime.