Getting Excited for the Holidays
Until this evening I have been having a hard time getting in the mood for Christmas. Anyone who knows me well knows that this is unusual. I love Christmas and after Thanksgiving I am usually all revved up for the holidays. This year I have just felt sort of ambivalent about the holidays- I don’t know if it’s the weather (it’s been near 70′s here the past few days) or the business that comes with a dissertation and a 6 month old baby (tomorrow Hazel is 6 months!!), but I have not felt the usual excitement about the holidays. That is, until tonight. We’ve started to plan our packing list for our big trip to Kansas. We leave next Thursday and we are starting to get very excited about our trip. As we will now be traveling as a family of three the packing process will be a bit more involved. I decided to head over to weather.com and check out what the weather in Kansas is forecast to be like next week and to my delight the forecast is calling for snow, snow, snow, snow and some more snow- if the weather channel is right then there should be snow on the ground when we arrive. I don’t know what it is about snow, but just the thought of seeing a decent amount of snow managed to put my holiday-o-meter into superdrive.
Hazel and I met up with our friends Nora and Michelle at the mall today- we had a nice lunch and walked around the shops and Hazel managed to sit in her stroller the entire time without getting too fussy. Usually after an hour or so she gets restless and wants to be carried, but today she was content to sit in her stroller. I am hoping our luck will hold for our traveling next week- we won’t be taking our stroller, but if she can be as mellow as she was today, we shouldn’t have much trouble getting her from here to Kansas!
I leave you with another one of the videos from this week- Hazel getting her toy basket out from underneath the coffee table.
The secret toy stash from esther benoit on Vimeo.
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