Sleighbells

We took a little drive over to Sleighbells Christmas shop on Saturday. You would not believe how many ornaments they have! For me it is like dying and going to heaven, but I'm a bit of a Christmas freak. I begin listening to Christmas music in September, I already have my tree up, and if I wasn't afraid of the white-trash stigma, I'd leave my Christmas lights up all year long.

Every year, we buy an ornament for the kids that represents the year for them (ie., being born, walking, liking trains, starting soccer, etc) so they can have some ornaments to take with them when they start their own families.

So here I am browsing through millions of ornaments trying to find the "perfect" one. Such fun! .....just not with an independent 3-year-old and a newly-walking 1-year-old.... Doug was really patient for quite a while; but a stuffy, crowded ornament shop with two toddlers and a handful of coats and hats and a purse is enough to drive anyone berserk after a time! (You can see Sterling touching everything in the picture below.) So he waited in the car with the kids while I finished...