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I'm started blogging almost three years ago and since then my blog has evolved to be a little piece of me. I use it as a sounding board, I complain, I talk about my kid, work, fashion victims, and anything else that strikes my fancy at the moment. I've been married 8 years and we've got a 5 year old daughter and another baby due June 2011.
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December is a busy month in the "Straight Talk Jess" house. To be fair, being a lawyer, with a {now} 5 year old Princess and a baby on the way {coming June 2011}, 2 stinky dogs that always seem to be hungry, and a partridge in a pear tree, things are always busy in our house (you can check out the random craziness and my two cents on anything and everything at my blog). We have the celebration of our sweet baby girl (who was born early and saved us from spending Christmas in the hospital 5 years ago). We also fill our December with decorations, Christmas parties, cookie baking, and the trek home to spend the holidays with our family.
Here are a couple highlights of our busy month:
1) Christmas decorations! Now that my sweet girl can fully appreciate them (more than just staring at the lights in awe as a baby), I love having her help decorate the tree. It's so sweet and something I remember being such a special thing for me and my family when I was younger. We put the Christmas music on and I let her go to town on the ornaments. Of course she gets a little help from mom and daddy to make sure that there are some ornaments towards the top of the tree too.
3) Birthday time!!! It's hard having a birthday in December. So we don't let hers get lost in the shuffle. This year we celebrated "Ava Day" with a couple celebrations that started with these delicious cupcakes at school and ended with a day spent doing what she wanted over the weekend. I think it's definitely a new December tradition in our house!
4) Home for the holidays. Another big part of our December is family, of course. We don't live close to family so we make the trek home to share our Christmas every year. Luckily, both of our families are in the same city so we don't have to worry about visiting families in alternating years or spending one weekend here and the next there. It's a lot of visiting {we have THREE big celebrations in one day. And that doesn't even count what Santa brings on Christmas morning!}, a lot of family and a lot of food, but we couldn't imagine it any other way.
Hope you enjoyed the sneak peek into our whirlwind holiday month. Thank you Mountain Mum for letting me join you!
From the "Straight Talk Jess" house to yours, I wish you a beautiful month and a very MERRY CHRISTMAS filled with joy, love and family.
