So it is Christmas

 Its December. Did you know that? I'm finding it a little hard to comprehend. Maybe its because I did most of my Christmas decorating in November, even before Thanksgiving.  Some of my family came down for a visit two weeks before Thanksgiving and helped put up the tree. We put it in front of the living room window, where it drove me crazy because it took up half the space. So one evening, Noah invited Lance for supper, and they moved the tree and rearranged the couches while I stood and directed the show. I'm much happier with these results.

Last weekend, Noah and I went Christmas shopping in Duluth, and got everything on our list. We went to the Texas Roadhouse for an early supper with Lance, Amy, Kristine, Ben, Benny, and Chadwick. The place is super noisy. We were gonna go to Bentleyville that evening to see the lights, but we got stuck in traffic up on I-35 and it would have taken long to get in, and Kathryn had had it with her car seat. Some other time, I guess.

In three weeks we are planning to go to Canada for Christmas. It'll be the first trip up since we got married. I am dreading the drive, but looking forward to being up there and seeing everybody. Last weekend we did a sort of 'trial' trip by going to Noah's parents place for the weekend. Kathryn did wonderfully. I was so proud of her. On the way home I told Noah that it would be OK if she cried for the whole next day, cause she had been so good. The problem was that God heard that.

In the last few weeks, Kathryn has smiled real smiles, and is paying much more attention to life. She gets completely mesmerized by the lights on the tree. Its so much fun to watch her:) We started putting 3-6 month clothes on her, and the poor baby is only 7 weeks old. She's growing fast!