So you realized some things needed to be done, and you’ll do them now, and continue with the holiday spirit… I’m still proud of you for getting it off to such a great start – and when other things are a priority (your son’s needs!) focusing on that. You’re a great Mom.

Yesterday my husband had to leave work early because my son developed hives in school. We’d sent him to bed early the night before & forgot his Zyrtec. Then in Spanish-at-lunch, they fed him some Spanish bread with oranges in it (weird — who else do you know who’s allergic to oranges, for Pete’s sake?) He knows his allergies, but doesn’t know citron is orange. AND… to top things off, we didn’t have his allergy paperwork up to date at school.

So today I stayed home to take kiddo to the doctor, get all his school paperwork up to date & new epi-pen at school (he won’t need it, but just in case.) The weather is way sloppy today, and guess what? Kiddo doesn’t have winter boots that fit (another errand for home day.)

So I had the tree & outside lights up, over half of Christmas shopping done, over half of Christmas cards ready to mail (it’s been at least 5 years since we managed Christmas cards), and important things like winter boots and allergy papers NOT done.

Glad it was such a beautiful, fun and productive weekend!

And, just to make things really wonderful, the very night I hung the outside lights (& I almost put some of it off, since it was getting dark by the time I got to it) it snowed! The new lights are so gorgeous agains the snow

Kim I adored your daughter too!!! Give her hugs for me! What a fun party… Hope to get to see you and the whole fam again soon.