So remember all those
plans I made last month for this holiday season? I am happy to report that while my blog has been silent I have been busy at home. The biggest news of course was that we welcomed our newest member to the family, a little girl born Saturday, November 19.
In addition to this (and with many thanks to my husband who was able to work from home for two weeks so we all could adjust) my older daughter and I have made festive the season by...
~ Decorating, as a family, our Christmas tree (and house), so everything looks quite festive.
~ Creating picture Christmas ornaments for her grandparents.
~ Spending time each day by reading one or two Christmas themed stories or picture books. (Favorites to be listed later.)
~ Creating our first family Advent wreath and celebrating the Advent season with this wreath, a devotional book, and an Advent calendar.
~ And most recently, baking several dozen gingerbread men (or as she calls them "Ginger Men"), which we decorated and have given out to friends and family as a special Christmas gift.
It's been a fun time in the midst of some trying moments. (Trying being that we came home with a newborn who became mysteriously fussy and would not sleep at all... only to learn she had colic issues and once addressed we find ourselves in week four with a totally different child.) Peace reigns in the house now and we are all very much looking forward to our first Christmas at home as a family of four.
As time allows I may be posting here and there, but for the most part I still consider myself on "leave" from this blog as I adjust to life with daughter number two.
Merry Christmas!
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8 comments:
Aww, congratulations on the birth of your daughter. Such sweet photos!
Those girls are lovely!
Congratulations, again! Sorry to hear about the colic. We're not dealing with that, exactly, but it's been rough here too, with our newborn...but improving, we think.
Thanks ladies!
Annette, I hope things settle down for you soon! I cannot believe how rough it can be at first (as if you don't have enough to deal with post birth!) But once you're over the hump suddenly life feels good again... or so I'm told. :) Hang in there!
Congratulations! I think you can enjoy the second more because you worry less - you know they eventually do sleep through the night and wean and not have colic - all those things that in the throes of the first one you wonder if they might never end!
Very sweet! :)
You have a beautiful family. Congrats on the latest addition. :)
Yeah, you've sort of had your hands full! But you've done wonderfully well! I'm seriously impressed by how much you have managed to do this Advent season!
What a little darling baby you have! And your older daughter is adorable as well. I admire the Christmas spirit that you have inspired in your home with such a young family. Thank you for encouraging us.
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