{a handful of moments}

:: celebrating # 1 ::

:: final Christmas decorating ::

:: having my dear parents here to help me! ::

:: open house ~ at our place ~ for our Church family ::

 :: sweet family times reading our advent devotional ::

:: making gingerbread houses and snow globes with the kids ::

 :: watching Nannie and Popi interact with their grand-children ::

:: watching # 3 do her irish jig (for a 2nd time) in front of a HUGE audience ::

:: date-night with my sweet man .... thai food & movie night ::

:: make-up shopping with my teenager! ::

:: listening to the dentist tell # 5 it was time to quit sucking her thumb......

and watching in amazement as she (for the third night now) has gone to bed,

like such a big girl, without her blankie or thumb or tears ::