We're back, just in time for the end of the year! As expected, it turned out that the stress about traveling with all the gifts was mostly unwarranted--it was a bit of a hassle carrying around the extra luggage, but there weren't really any issues getting it on and off trains and buses. Not that the trip was stress-free, mind you. In fact, when ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas, everybody! Ours was merry...ish. We had plans to relax and actually do things, like bake cookies...by which I mean take store-bought cookie dough and put it in the oven. Let's not get carried away here. (We do have grand ambitions of figuring out the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe, but we are nowhere near even starting ( Read more... )

It's the night before the night before Christmas, and we are at home, missing out on our sister's annual tradition. Our other sister shared a photo on the family chat so we know what we're missing, so I do feel the need to express our remorse once more that we chose not to attend this year. I am a little excited for our ward's Christmas program ( Read more... )

We're back from our Christmas vacation, and of course, we are tired. We barely manage to get enough sleep as it is... But we had a good time. Since we've been traveling all day, normally we would have let our computer stay off until tomorrow, but tomorrow! is when new Miraculous episodes come to Disney+, so I wanted to at least get started on our ( Read more... )

Today was full of all the things. First we had to sleep in. That's very important, because for some reason we are incapable of getting enough sleep during the week ( Read more... )

I feel like today was a little bit surreal, but maybe I'm only thinking about the one thing that happened at the grocery store. I was distracted about something, so I wasn't looking where I was going, and I pushed the cart into a hanging display. I didn't feel any resistance, so I kept going (still not looking ahead of me), and suddenly there was ( Read more... )

We're back, everybody! We went up north to visit family for Christmas, and oh my goodness, it involved a lot of bad decisions. I mean, we had a good time, and I think everybody had a good time overall, but...we may still be recovering from bad decisions for a while yet ( Read more... )

Today was our ward's Christmas sacrament meeting. As usual, there were probably way more songs than there should have been, but this time about half of them were congregational numbers, which we love, because then we get to be part of them even if we're not the featured performers. We were this time, though, even though we were released from ( Read more... )

After weeks of just not wanting to deal with anything extra, we finally put up our Christmas tree today! Woohoo! We haven't quite finished putting all the plushies on it (we use plushies instead of ornaments, because we have a ton of little plushies and approximately...three? ornaments), but we figure that's something we can just do a little of ( Read more... )

Today was our ward Christmas party! My sense of holidays is so skewed right now, we were at the party and I was thinking about how at some party they're going to have Santa, and it was a little while before I realized it was the very party we were at, even though we were surrounded by Christmas decorations. I don't even know what is going on with ( Read more... )