In the weeks leading up to Christmas Grandma Northcutt and Marla were snap-happy, capturing our two children playing together. It is a treat to come home and see these pictures because all to often when I get home from work play patterns are interrupted.

Who would guess that our two children could play so nicely together? (Not me!)

It was a treat to decorate the tree with Grandma Northcutt this year. We re-used a few of last year’s hand-made decorations and topped things off with Emma’s very first decoration made at pre-school.

I’m sure that I broke all kinds of good-parenting rules by wrapping my boy in Christmas lights but, you know what?

I don’t care.