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It was a roaring success at our house today, and a bit of a whirlwind too. We were up way too early, ate way too much, and got way too many presents. I only feel OK about it all because we also gave lots of presents and we got to share the day [...]

As promised, here are a bunch of pictures of our Christmas celebrations.  We were cautiously optimistic that Melanie would still be too young to get up at the crack of dawn on Christmas morning.  Wrong.  She came into our room at 5:15 screaming that “Santa came, Santa came!!!”  We told her to go back to [...]

We got a boatload of snow over the last couple of days, the first in almost a month, so we headed outside to enjoy it. We took the sleds and our skates to the local park and had a great time. Melanie got to use her new sled (the one that Santa brought) [...]

We were lucky enough to be able to stay home for Christmas this year! Grandma and Opa Knobel and Auntie Carolyn flew in from Ottawa to join us for the holidays.
Christmas eve was quite traditional (stockings, milk and cookies for Santa, etc,), including some new and old traditions. The new part had Louise [...]

We were invited to the Christmas concert at Melanie’s preschool.  This was the full meal deal with singing, dancing, Santa, and presents!  When Santa asked Melanie what she wanted for Christmas she barely hesitated before asking for a Barbie doll.  Fortunately that’s exactly what was in the present she got that day!  And her friend [...]