My New Year's Resolution

It's the time of year when people start making plans on how to better themselves. I'm no different in the fact that I want to be a better in a certain area: juggling.

Here's my goal for the coming year - I want to learn how to juggle 4 balls. And after mastering 4 balls, I'm going to move on to 5 balls. (Thanks to Julia for getting me a juggling set for Christmas)

Here's the video from day one of juggling training. Enjoy!

The most wonderful time of the year

This was the day Julia realized that tomorrow is Christmas Eve. With the added sugar bonus of four bowls of cereal and a bowl of ice cream, she ran around the house all afternoon and well into the evening singing "tomorrow is Christmas Eve!" and all variations that she could think of.

Suddenly she stopped dead in her tracks in mid-sentence and proclaimed, "we almost forgot the cookies for Santa!" So that was how we spent the remainder of the night, making chocolate chip cookies for Santa, big ones because he's going to be really tired from flying all over the world. And how can Santa fly around the whole world in one day? He must be magic.

The joy of Christmas and seeing the sparkle and excitement in Julia's face is pretty dang cool.

I thought kids loved Santa

Apparently, Reed is a typical baby who is completely afraid of the big man in the red suit. At only a year old he's got stranger danger anxiety and kind of freaks out when we hand him to somebody new. Even Santa couldn't work his charm and make Reed smile. But Julia loved it and gladly told Santa all she wants for Christmas.