back with my baby

after a relaxing on a much needed vacation, i'm back with my wonderful husband. he has a four day weekend for christmas and i'm enjoying my time with him after being away for a week. yesterday we did some last minute shopping for a few children - what a mess! there was hardly anythig left! but we managed to find some good things and decided we were very pleased with our decision to do all christmas shopping online. i was going crazy and getting very cranky with the crowds. we have plenty of christmas things to do today. right now the gingerbread dough is chilling in the fridge. i had no idea how hard it was to make!! you can't use the mixer after awhile and it's so sticky from the molasses. not to mention the smell of the molasses made me sick to my stomoach. but i did it for nick (who had to come to my rescue and finish). we're actually making gingerbread bears b/c we didn't look for cookie cutters until yesterday! ha! but i think we can cut off the ears and he'll look like a man :) we'll be going to the christmas eve service at our church tonight like i always did with my family, and then we will eat cheese fondue for dinner like his family. we're so glad to spend our first christmas together and share our family's traditions and make some of our own.