"Do they know it's Christmas Time at all?'

This is one of my favorite Christmas songs. It kind of puts what we have here in the states a little bit in perspective, but that's not why I chose this song for this week. It was the first week of December, and we should have been getting ready for Christmas. Well instead we were doing other things. So I began to wonder, is it really Christmastime right now? Here are the other things we did....

A new kindle fire. For Dave's work he has to get all the latest and greatest to make sure his projects work on them. I've always thought nooks were dumb, and any electronic held devices to read books. Who doesn't love the smell of paper, and the weight in the back pack? Plus when you get something like that from Amazon and open it up brand new, it's just heavenly. But I have officially been converted. I love the kindle fire. I can check out ten books at a time from my library. Unfortunately, Dave loves the kindle fire too. At one point I think he started hiding it from me. Now the question is do we need two?

OUCH, OUCH, and more OUCH. I went in for a root canal, that lasted all month. Yep, ALL MONTH.... Thanksgiving was my last real meal. It was pretty deep, and I won't go into details, but lets just say each time I went back the dentist made sure I had plenty of Oxycotin.

I went with some friends to go see the Festival of Trees in Sandy. This was as close to Christmas as I got this week. Here is a cool tree centered on the theme A Christmas Story.

I love advent calendars. I try to get a new one every year. I'm hoping I can talk my mom into creating one like this for me someday.

At last, but certainly not least, our youngest chose to be baptized. He's been waiting a long time for this. We were so excited for him. I can't believe my youngest is 8. I'm old.......