Normal

We had a very normal weekend. Got a bunch of Christmas shopping done...which is fun but also sad. I love the getting ready for Christmas. The cards, the shopping, the gift wrapping, baking, decorating. I love it all. When I get another thing on my list done it means its one step closer to being another year to Christmas. Oh well. This will be a great Christmas. Alivia will really get into the gift opening this year and we can read her the Christmas story (and she'll actually sit still and listen). Lately she's been getting into books and I love it. After naps we crawl into my bed and read books together. I am so amazed that I get to share my life with this little girl. Each day she is getting bigger and bigger. She does new things all the time. I am constantly shocked by the things she knows.

Our latest drama is a completely normal drama that all moms experience at one point or another. Alivia will not go to bed. It took almost 2 hours to get her to sleep today. I think that she might be getting teeth so I got out the oralgel.Pray for her to fall asleep on her own. We are trying to teach her. She did it for a while, then the hospital and we get start all over. Oh well. I like having "normal" struggles. They are such a relief.

Thanks for all the continued prayers, to Dan and Debbi Van Horn for the note and cute lamb, to the Phillis Deitman, IDella, Nacy Lern, Patty Rankin, Louann Miller, Mildred Bash and Yvonne Learn for the card and gift, the Fry Family, Wayne, Sally, Shawn and Heather Herr and Lois Hostetter for the advent peices. Thanks.