Yikes…is it really December 3rd already?!
Anyway…
Last night we took Mae “downtown” to Dickens in Dundee. (T hat’
s where the UH-dorable photo from yesterday is from.) It was fun…we were only there for about an hour because it was on the cold side, and she refused to wear a hat.
But we walked around, stopped for popcorn, got her picture taken, chatted with friends, and listened to some awesome Christmas
music performed by friends of ours.
It was such a fun start to the Christmas season.
Today the parade in Dundee was canceled, so we used our morning to finish Christmas shopping for Mae, realizing this is the last year we’ll be able to do it while she’s with us. 😉
We don’t do huge amounts of gifts for Christmas.
Tobin and I buy each other a few smaller things, and we buy a few things for Maelie, and that’s that. This year my mom and dad and stepmom chipped in and we were able to buy her something bigger…which you’ll have to wait until Christmas to see.
No spilling secrets on THIS blog! 😉
As we were walking through Target today, though, I was nagged by thought,
Did we buy her enough
?
We have really tried to keep Christmas about Jesus…and keep the gifts to a minimum.
She’s getting a few fun things, but there probably won’t ever be a huge stack of presents for her.
At the same time, we don’t want her to miss the fun of visiting Santa, of opening gifts… of being a kid at Christmas.
It hasn’t been a hard balance so far, but she doesn’t understand yet, either.
I know the more difficult years are coming…the years when her friends are getting iPads or whatever else is the big thing by then…and we’ll be struggling to figure out what’s appropriate and what’s ridiculous.
I guess that’s part of parenting…we’d better enjoy these years now, huh
? 😉
And on the bright side...I'm done shopping...YaHOO!!! December 3rd could be a record, I think.
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