Christmas Season Survival

Marissa is 5 now. So of course she's at a great age for Christmas time, and this year presents new challenges from last year, and I'm sure from next year as well. This year she developed the "I have to have everything" bug. Andrew came up with a fun solution to this. Whenever she sees something in the store that she wants us to buy, he whips out his cell phone and pretends to call the North Pole, and talks to the Elves to give a message to Santa Clause that she's wants ____, whatever it is at that moment. It's really cute, and she falls for it every time. :) She stops asking us to buy her the toy or whatever, but she's expecting Santa to come through for all this stuff, and we did buy a lot of them (behind her back). But I'm sure she won't remember ALL of the things... WILL SHE??

We did a bit more Christmas shopping this morning. WARNING: It's getting to be that time of year to get out the football gear and put it on before you hit the stores. You need protection out there!

Marissa quote: "Do black squirrels swing in the trees by their nuts?"

Yikes! LOL. We were watching squirrels and talking about them gathering nuts for the winter... That was too funny. ;)