Santa Claus is Coming to Town

The Christmas spirit has hit our house big time. Ella asks me on a daily basis when Christmas will be here. We've really had to reinforce that Christmas is about Jesus, not Santa. A great example happened during her bedtime prayer the other night- "Thank you that Santa can come to our house in his sleigh. Thank you for his reindeers. And thank you for Jesus Christ. And thank you that he has a good list and a bad list and he's checking it twice. But help us to be good, for goodness sake." She really had us cracking up!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Halloween was so much fun this year. Ella is still asking me every day when Halloween is coming again. I've been pushing the Christmas angle, but the memory of Halloween is still too fresh in her little mind. Molly was a pro trick-or-treater. Ella was done about half-way through, and spent the rest of the time being pushed in the stroller so she could raid her candy bag. Molly couldn't wait to get to the next door. She would look up at us to make sure it was okay, then she would take off for the front door.