One Month Until Christmas

Tonight was our local Santa Claus Parade & we hummed and hawed about whether or not we should keep Sydney up much past her bedtime to go to the parade. Now that Jason too is demanding a bedtime of about 7pm, we had pretty much decided that we would wait another year- however I was still on the fence. I figured one of us could stay & put Jason to bed & the other could take Sydney to the parade with the rest of the Taylors. However, Sydney took the decision out of our hands. She is on day three of a fever of about 102 degrees. She has been in pretty good spirits, the fever just keeps fluctuating a lot during the day. I thought for sure this afternoon we had finally got rid of the fever, but it was back in full force by suppertime. So yet another year goes by without Sydney enjoying this parade. We plan on taking her to a daytime parade next weekend, so she doesn't miss out completely.

Brad is very anti-decorations before December, but I did convince him to put the lights up today- but of course they can't be turned on yet. It seems silly to me to not do it on a perfectly sunny day that is well above zero. Who knows what it will be like next weekend! Also next weekend we need to get our tree, so there is already activity planned. We used to go out to a tree farm to get our tree, but requiring car seats in the vehicle has dampened that trip. So we now take Sydney's wagon to the nursery down the street & walk home with our tree. This way the whole family gets to participate & we don't need to clean needles out of the van or car.

Also today, to occupy Miss Sydney we decorated a gingerbread house. You can see by the picture that she is a little under the weather, she is awfully pale.

I think this is going to have to become an annual tradition to see how our decoration skills improve. We let her do as much of it as possible & I think she did a pretty good job.