December 31, 2006

* Blessed be the name of the Lord
* being taken off of speaker phone
* reading the newspaper and drinking coffee

December 30, 2006

* the look on Georgia's face when she found out we had a linen closet
* watching Georgia chase the vacuum
* tivo

December 29, 2006

* a safe flight for Dave, Nora and Ryann
* antibiotics
* pacifiers

December 28, 2006

* cartoons
* dinner made by cornbread
* a pediatrician who stays open late to accomodate all of the sick kids in town (including mine)

December 27, 2006

* playing dress-up with my girls instead of just watching them
* applesauce souffle
* dinner consisting of smoked salmon, crackers and dill havarti, smoked gouda, pesto monteray jack & edam

December 26, 2006

* sleeping in
* going downstairs to see if Santa came last night and left scooters, looking to see what kind of mess the reindeers made
* spending a day with the Fulmer's

December 25, 2006

* egg casserole
* home depot gift card
* talking with my dad at the bears game
* safe travels all weekend
* reindeer food
* christmas cookies
* letters to santa
* that's not rudolph, thats a big pole
* tears at leaving cousins
* hugs from nephews
* 4 1/2 hours of driving and talking
* brainstorming with cornbread

December 24, 2006

* playing my mom's piano
* chili with cornbread (and cornbread)
* talking to cornbread and mike until 4:30am est

December 23, 2006

* Hearing that Hannah was 80% back to her normal self, acting silly, waving, and eating crackers
* Elf
* portable dvd players

December 22, 2006

* having all of my christmas gifts wrapped
* really nice, thick wrapping paper with bows
* bleach

December 21, 2006

* watching Georgia wake up through the crack in her doorway
* homemade truffles
* a christmas card from my long-lost roomate who usually looks at her cards sitting on the table and never gets around to sending them out:)

December 20, 2006

* Playing Let's Go Fishin' with Nora and Ryann
* Listening to Dave and Doug debate the Tank Johnson scandal and the current economy
* Red Curry Chicken

December 19, 2006

* a "down day" after a busy weekend
* christmas cards in the mail from friends that we love
* making a loooong to-do list

December 18, 2006

* Charlotte's Web
* The drama at church yesterday - 12 Days of Stressedness
* Jeff Probst

December 17, 2006

* A long afternoon/evening downtown with Dave
* Starbucks giftcards
* A mob of Santa's walking down Michigan Avenue

December 16, 2006

* Grassano's spinach & mushroom stuffed pizza
* The Office Season 2 on DVD
* We belong. We belong. We be-long together, Ryan

December 15, 2006

* Christmas cut-out cookies with fluffy white frosting
* Ryann's version of making cookies
* Nora wanting to eat the christmas present she made for mom and dad 15 minutes after she brought it home from school (before showing it to daddy)

December 14, 2006

* Tyson's Heat N Eat chicken in the crockpot
* The girls dancing to christmas music
* Clean windows and brand new fingerprints

December 13, 2006

* Size 2 baby shoes
* Birdie at Nextel customer service
* homemade chocolate covered pretzel rods

December 12, 2006

* Hello I am Smoochable
* Baby wipes
* Annie

December 11, 2006

* giant gingerbread cookies
* sunday crossword puzzles
* houses decorated with christmas lights