It feels a little early to being visiting Santa, but December is such a busy month. I know it's busy for everyone, but if you can ever help it--don't get married AND have a baby in the month of December! (Well, and if you can help it--not in the same year--ours were 3 years apart.)


Growing up, we always went to Kelly's Country Store and it's such a great memory for me that we always take our kids there. Umm...I'm getting to the age of my blog where I am repeating myself...yikes. Check here for the background if you are new to this gig. Yeah, so long lines and waiting. I'm not sure I knew or if they ever had Santa visit on the weekend, but this year we decided to try it and since it is early in the season maybe we would have some luck? It was a little better at least. We did wait an hour and a half, but did I mention it's because Santa spends at least a full 5 minutes with each kid? (not just each family, but each kid!) He's a pretty special guy.

We did a lot of prepping for Mikaela, also. We didn't want to have another scream fest. When Santa first appeared she was scared, but she saw other kids sitting on his lap and then two girls from her daycare were there and I think that helped, too. She did great--quiet, but no crying.




And this year..we are SO into the Santa threat, "Santa is watching you! He knows when you are bad or good! You better behave if you want Santa to bring you a gift!" Is it possible to wear this out before it's even December 1st?




Oh yeah, and he's NOT getting a dog...