I really love our gas fireplace. It's so cozy to sit by the fire in the evenings with a good book.
I've successfully kept up with the Christmas spiritual thought advent thing Mom made several years ago. It might be the first time.
I had a $15 gift certificate to "The Civ," a small thrift store run by the city (all proceeds go to them). I hadn't been able to find anything to use it on, but last time I went I scored a pair of Old Navy khakis new with tags for Brian, three new-looking Thirsties diaper covers in cute girl prints, a Gap shirt for Owen, and a couple okay maternity shirts for me.
Owen's speech has gotten better this month. He says 4- 5 word sentences that we can actually understand sometimes.
The bad:
We spent $$$ on car repairs and still have more $$$ to spend, all while trying to save money to pay upcoming medical bills ($$$$ because of our insurance) and other related expenses and pay for Christmas things. And things in our house and car keep breaking.
Camille keeps asking for something she won't be getting for Christmas. I tried to prep her this morning by talking about how she might get some other cool thing, and she almost started crying.
We got the homeliest Christmas tree we've every had. It's worse because all the ornaments from the bottom 2/3 of the tree got packed away after Owen kept breaking them, all the presents got put away for the same reason, and one string of lights has had about 20 lights go out.
