Jesus' Sacrifice

Tonight after reading the story of Jesus' birth in Luke. Shyler said, "Mom, guess what. Jesus died for us, so he could save our skins!" That's right Shyler...although I may not have put it that way. hahaha.
Then she went on to tell us, "My head is full of Jesus!"

How could Santa not visit these cuties?

Today is better as predicted.

Even though last night, I was lying on my son's bed, and my daughter came up and started spanking my bum and then said, "It's all jiggly like dough"...nice...I feel a major new year's resolution coming on.

GRRR.

Blogs don't have to be all fun and happy. Today mine is not fun and happy, because I am not fun and happy. Aargh.
Seriously, today is not fun and happy. :(

Tomorrow will be better.

December 22...3 days to Christmas

Ok, so yesterday Shyler had to get some vaccines done...she was scared, but her cousin, Gracie Lou Who (That's what I like to call her, she hates it) came along to help her be brave...Shyler sat still and closed her eyes while I secured her arms and two nurses jabbed her with the vaccines...I was awaiting an outburst as she's done before, but she just says, with lots of attitude, "That doesn't even hurt!"... funny...

On the way home I had to go to Walmart. Apparently Gracie Lou Who didn't want to go to Walmart and was refusing to get out of the car. Well I told her she must, or else the police would take me to jail...That got her moving. And I said, "also a bad guy could come steal the car with you in it!"...as we continue to walk, I hear Shyler explaining to Gracie Lou Who that if the bad guy decides to be really bad, he might even put her in a cage... ok...where do they think of this?

There was one more thing, but I can't think of it now... hmmm

Moving on...
I hosted Bunko at my place last night. It was really fun, as always. Good friends, good fun. :) I'm happy.

Oh! I remember the other thing.... Shyler was telling Gracie Lou Who how Scott (cole's cousin) was trying to make her get under the mistletoe at our family Christmas party to kiss her. Well this interested Miss Gracie Lou Who very much because she excitedly asked, "Can I go under the mistletoe!?" Girls...

Oh, and one more thing... Yesterday in Primary I got two, yes TWO hugs from two different boys...made my day...

New Direction

Today is the start of a new journey for this blog. Blogging should be like journaling and as my sweet, talented blogging cousin (see her blog here) reminded me this weekend, it doesn't need to be huge events. The day to day things are what I will cherish, and so therefore, the things I need to record.
And so it begins...

Sang with the ward choir yesterday for the Christmas program. It was amazing. Well, it sounded as such to me at least. :-) I LOVE singing. Nothing brings the spirit closer to me, than when I'm singing. We sang some beautiful songs and in one of them, we sang out "GLORIA, GLORIA"...I got goosebumps just thinking of all our Savior has done for us, and the debt that I owe to him.

Then to make my Sunday even better, I got to teach my children a new song in Primary. "The Savior's Gift to Me" by Annie Bailey. (If you'd like the sheet music, I have her email where you can request it). It's a beautiful and simple song, and the kids did amazing!! Especially the senior primary...I even got misty-eyed. It was great!

All the Christmas shopping is done, well for the kids at least...still need to finish up for my in-laws...Christmas is just 4 days away! So crazy! I love Christmas time! I plan to start some fun traditions this year for our little family...baking cookies on Christmas eve for Santa Claus...and I think I'll wake up early and make cinnamon rolls. I think tomorrow night we'll be going with my family to see Christmas lights. Any other traditions I might want to start?

What do you think?