November Today, December Tomorrow

Happy post-Thanksgiving! 

Our family had a fun, low-key day. My favorite kind.  

And call me nuts, but I did a bit of impromptu Black Friday shopping with my MIL and SIL.  We headed out at 9:30 p.m., yes p.m., on Thursday and shopped until about 4:30 a.m., yes a.m.  It was really last minute and we had no intentions of staying out that late, but one thing led to another and before I knew it I was crawling into bed just before 5am.  I won't go into details about setting off Brad's car alarm  and waking up all three of our children, and probably our neighbors for that matter, when I got home.  It's not healthy for me to stay up so late. It adds to my, already scatterbrained, problem.   

But... I did almost complete my Christmas shopping, which is great seeing as I have a 1st birthday party to plan soon.

What in the world? Emmy is already almost ONE! I'm baffled by where the last year has gone. 

 I am going to have to prepare myself for celebrating a birthday that falls in between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  I've made a mental note of the things that friends with December birthdays have told me.  

1. Don't wrap her presents in Christmas paper.

2. Don't combine Christmas and birthday gifts.

3. ...

That is all that I can remember. Obviously I wasn't listening too well.  But I figure that I have a few years to figure this out before she starts holding it against me. Ha!   

I can hardly believe that there is only one day left in November, but bring on December. This time last year, our house was full of people giddy about December. December meant that our 'baby sister' was coming! And now, December means that our baby sister has graced our lives for a full year. 

Two births that I love to celebrate, Jesus and Emery!

**December**