I forgot to mention, we did manage to get the Christmas tree up. Emma loved hanging the ornaments, so we just let her do them all. The tree had nothing on the branches above about 3 feet. It made me sad to see and affirm that I have only 5 ornaments left from the past 20 years. Dan. Grr. And...we cant find the stockings. Where are the stockings?

I have several pressies already that I am going to try and get wrapped before Emma comes back on Thursday, she'd be so excited to see that there are presents under the tree with her name on them! Katie put a tree up in her room, and her and charlie made a star for the top of it. No ornaments tho, Im afraid to see what they're going to hang on there!

I think we are going to Aurora to a Sally Army that we havent been to before. Hope they have good books. Although we've GOT to get the shelves done. The overflow into the family room has reached overwhelming proportions. We actually had to cancel an order yesterday because we couldnt find the book, after lots and lots of searching. Unacceptable. We have designated tomorrow as finish the shelves day.

Cologgers meetup on Friday is a go. Who's coming?!?!