and I'm glad!! With warmer temps on Sunday, most of what we had melted. I would like a White Christmas! How else is Santa going to get his sleigh going without snow??
Speaking of Santa...so a little birdie told me what he's bringing, but SHH...it's a secret.
Cal is getting a Baltimore Orioles baseball hat (the old logo), 2 books about Cal Ripken, a game for his Nintendo DS(which he is getting from Grandma and Grandpa, Mike's parents), and the first Indiana Jones movie.
Maddie is getting a stuffed dog (which she seriously has loved for a year--everytime we go to Hallmark at the mall, she picks out this dog and says she is hiding it for her birthday; and she shoves it at the back of the display case. The first couple times, I figured, whatever. But everytime we went there after she'd check to see if he was still there!), a polly pocket princess Jasmine (the only polly pocket princess she doesn't have), a Backyardigans movie, and a singing barbie (I know nothing about all these Barbie movies that are out there, but the past few times Maddie has gone to her friend's house, Maddie throws a fit because she wants to bring some singing barbie home from a barbie movie. It's really not funny at the time, esp. since Maddie is really such a good little girl. But I stopped going to this friend's house because everytime she would dig up this barbie and want to bring it home!) So Santa is so thoughtful, he thought it would be nice if she had her own.
Kaycey is getting an American Girl doll from my Grandparents (either way it's a hand-me-down, either my old Molly doll, or a Kit doll my Grandma got from a resale shop, I think) so then Santa is getting a couple outfits for the doll, a game for her Nintendo DS(which she is getting from Grandma and Grandpa, Mike's parents), the Kit Kittredge movie, & a Puppy Place book.
I found her a "Give Kids the World" snow globe--that is where we stayed on our Wish Trip to Disney. But it's not necessarily Christmas-y, so she might get that for her birthday.
I have bought some miscellaneous little items, like socks, ornaments, little notebooks, barettes. Maybe those will go in the stockings (which nothing usually gets put in the stockings, really). So this is our "simple". I feel it's the perfect medium. Just those few extra special things the kids have been talking about, you know? Nothing outrageous or crazy expensive. I figure there will be years for those requests when they are teenagers!! I suppose simple would be one gift from Santa. I suppose, what we do is simpler than some people, more complicated than others.
A quote for today: For it’s when we believe without seeing that we experience the spirit of Christmas and the heart of our faith.
1 comment:
You're good, Elizabeth. It sounds like a good amount of stuff to me.
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