the Readers Digest version of Jingle Bells by Genevieve

Genevieve explains the Christmas nativity

Heavy Lifting required...

So today I was in a store and went to pick up my purchase--in a box that weighed about 40 lbs. (I looked later.) A nice, concerned woman had an absolute fit that my obviously pregnant self was about to pick it up, and I told her, I'm fine, I'm cleared to lift this much.
So she asked me: "Do you have a job that requires you to lift things?"
(I guess she thought I was making this up rather than having actually discussed lifting with my dr...)
To which I replied, "Actually, yes I do. My job is raising my 2-year-old."

(She still went to my car with me. Which is very nice, really.)

Picture with Santa

We took Genevieve to see Santa tonight at the mall. She was quite excited until she actually saw him.... So Robert and I ended up in the picture with her, and it really captures the scope and drama of the thing nicely, I think! (I should add that Santa was very, very nice).

After we got home, we were putting up the Christmas tree, and Robert asked her if she saw Santa today. She said "umm-hmmm." So then he asked if she liked Santa, to which she replied with an adamant "No. I don't like him." Sorry about that, Santa.... maybe next year!

My turkeys make turkeys...

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

Happy Birthday to Kathy!

Today is our friend Kathy Wetzel's 29th birthday. And Genny wanted to send her some special wishes.....

A Baby Picture

Yes, we're having a ..... baby. No we didn't find out what we're having, we're going to enjoy the element of surprise and our freedom to NOT plan for this child's room and wardrobe. It's going to be fabulous! Just a little story. With me to the hospital I had to take the doctor's order of what they were supposed to do with me (I guess). Scrawled across the bottom in the comments were three wonderful (although seemingly insignificant) words that I am thankful for: "supervised normal pregnancy" How thankful I am to be pregnant with this little one, and even more thankful that the only reason we were at the hospital was for a routine test. And everything looked fine. In the picture above, the baby's face is on the right, and baby is facing you. You can see some knee/hand/feet types to the left.