Great Day

What a great day today was (finally)! Although Katelynn woke up at 5am, I put her back to bed and she slept in until 7:30am, that made for a very pleasant morning and both of us had gotten enough sleep. We played a little this morning and made some coffee, milk, and cinnamon rolls for breakfast and watched some cartoons. We started to really get moving around 9am getting ready to finish up our Christmas shopping and we were out the door by 10am (right when we woke Dad up, because I figured it was time). We first ran to the outlet mall because we had to return a vest that was too small and bought 2 gifts there and walked around and went to a couple of other stores to look around. It was 50 degrees out and the sun was shining, so nice. Then we headed over to Target to pick up our last present. Katelynn did not complain once about riding in the cart the entire time we were in there because I had told her there were just too many people and I didn't want to loose her. We shared a smoothie and popcorn while we shopped around (and she didn't even ask for anything for herself, wow). After about an hour it was time to get out of that crazy busy store, so we hit the rode homeward bound. Once we got home we cleaned up the basement and Dan even helped and actually vacuumed for me (miracles do happen?). Katelynn then decided that mommy needed a nap and covered me with blankets and she went outside to play with her dad and then she went down for nap too. Once we were up and moving again, Dan put in a new house humidifier and thank goodness that static in our house is now gone! Katelynn and I did an art project of making snowmen and coloring that I had bought at Target to keep us busy this afternoon. The rest of the night we actually spent as a family and played and danced and ate supper together, it was so nice. After Katelynn was off too bed Dan and I watched a movie together, another pleasant surprise - spending some time with my husband. Tomorrow on the agenda will be doing some laundry, running to the grocery store and making 2 batches of Chex Mix and watching the Vikings game - hopefully all will be as peaceful as it was today (wish me luck with that).