Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas

from

The Serrs

This is as close as we're getting to sending out Christmas cards this year.  Next year they WILL be mailed! 

Brown Paper Packages

Brown paper packages tied up with string...these are a few of my favorite things.

I watched a Martha Stewart episode a lifetime ago where she had this great guest who suggested only wrapping presents in brown paper and then changing the adornments to fit the occasion.  I swore I would never buy wrapping paper again, and I haven't.  I love this idea.  I hated storing rolls of wrapping paper all year round for different holidays.  They rolls are always bent before I the right occasion comes around again.  

I guess I've always been a minimalist when it comes to present wrapping.  In high school, my brothers and sisters usually got their presents from me wrapped in the bag I purchased them in.  Sometimes I added a little duct tape for a nice gesture.  

This year I decided to adorn my brown packages using only things I had around the house.  Newspaper, ribbon, and yarn fit the bill.  I like to think it looks a little classier than a Walmart bag with a duct tape bow.

Santa No-go

Two Santa visits in two days.  Times sat on Santa's lap by my girl? None.  Maybe next year?

Impostor!

Benson, Benson, Benson...or is that even his real name?  Because I'm fairly certain that someone crept into our house one night, took my sweet little boy, and replaced him with another baby.  This baby looks enough like Benson, but he's no longer my content, laid back, calm baby.  This impostor of a child YELLS.  And then yells and yells some more.  He yells when he's tired.  He yells when he's bored.  He yells just because.  And he yells LOUDLY!  This other child no longer power-naps - he's more a cat-napper.  Anxiety is filling my soul as I worry he might inherit his sister's sleeping habits.

This kid is lucky that he still has deliciously chubby cheeks.  He's lucky that we adore him and still love him to  pieces.  I'm just wondering what on earth happened?