Right now I’m typing this wedged in between the two kids all snug and warm. Them. Not me. I’m cold. Especially my right foot. Why my right foot in particular? I don’t know but anyhoo… Why not me? Because a few minutes ago I was in the freezing living room drawing this. Nathan started crying. I hurriedly finished it and here I am snug and not warm because no one turned on the heat. Der!

Thank goodness for warm kids to put my cold feet on.

The other day we were at a bookstore. I knelt down to look at some books and kenlt right on someone’s spilt coffee. Nice. Thanks anonymous booger for spilling your coffee and just leaving it.

I was worried it might stain. Alan told me to just shout it out. I don’t think that’s what he meant.

*I didn’t really shout at it. I thought about shouting at it though.

Remember this picture?

Ahhhhh Nathan barely fits into it now.

That doesn’t stop him from trying though.

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I’ve been more comfortable. The problem is Nathan. He pushes and pushes against me and I keep moving over and inevitably I’m sleeping on the crack. And sometimes the bed moves for whatever reason and then the crack gets bigger. *Double sigh.

On Sunday night, we told Isabelle a special visitor was going to be in town the next day. Then Monday afternoon, we drove down to the mall to visit him, Santa. Even Nathan was excited. I don’t know why. We’ve never talked to Nathan about Santa. Not really. Maybe he heard about Santa in passing when…when…I don’t know. Maybe Isabelle told Nathan about him.

Well anyhoo, back to what I was saying, Nathan was whining and moaning when we were getting ready to go out, wanting to play Batman. But as soon as I said, “we’re going to see Santa now” he calmed right down and went to get his shoes saying, “Santa! Santa!”

And oh my what a difference from seeing Santa last year. There were no people. NO PEOPLE. Well I shouldn’t have been too surprised. Last year we went a few days before Christmas when all the kids were out of school. It was a madhouse. This time there was only one other kid there and I don’t know if he was there to take pictures or to play with the fake snow.

FAKE SNOW!! The kids loved it as you can tell from the pictures. We really need to bring them to the snow this year. Isabelle’s been talking about going sledding.

And Santa? The kids were ok with Santa. Isabelle hasn’t had a problem with Santa ever. But Nathan was sort of hesitant. He was all gung ho saying, “Santa” and “Cwistmas”. That is until we rounded the corner and he actually saw Santa. Then he stopped dead in his tracks and didn’t want to sit with him.

So, I held Nathan in my arms and we took a few shots with Santa like that. Then I transferred Nathan over to Santa and no problem.