Sled Ride

It was soooo beautiful outside this morning!

Dave has today off too and we took Cori out for her first ever sled ride!

She must be exhausted- she has been napping for 2 hours now. Very rare indeed for us!

Happy New Year to all!

Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas celebration - 4 days worth of family gatherings which was just wonderful!

Here is our little tree this year - smaller than usual but a good thing with Cori this year.

Cori on Christmas morning

She loved the Mickey Mouse Club-house from Santa!

Notice she wanted to stay in it to open her other gifts.

Ready to fit right into the family by drinking Bailey's Liquor!

Lots of smiles this year!

Mickey's biggest fan

We're all done and ready for Christmas over in the Sprague household. I got out the video camera to charge the battery and forgot about the disk I had in it. Here's one of the finer out-takes.

Cori LOVES Mickey Mouse. Every day when I bring her home from daycare, she grabs the remote and gives it to me so that I can put on Mickey Mouse. I've given up trying to not go through this routine; the dramatic tantrum that happens if I don't isn't worth suffering through 22 minutes of Mickey daily. So thank heavens for "On Demand" (I just wish they'd release some new episodes!)

Anyways- here is Cori dancing to the intro song like she always does. Cracks me up!

Christmas Tree

I found my mojo - all it took was to see Cori's expression when she looks at the tree all lit up and says "WOW!" over and over again... proof that it is the simple things indeed.

missing mojo (christmas edition)

It's December, and since I've not updated since November, you can say this post is over due. I've been procrastinating updating because I've just not been in the holiday spirit. Sure, it's post-Thanksgiving (I can't begin to think about Christmas any earlier - one holiday at a time for me). But I feel like I have so much going on mentally that I just can't stop and relax and enjoy (story of my life).

Primarily, I'm focused on listing the house for sale in January. So a big part of my missing mojo is just that I don't feel like decorating only to tear everything down shortly there after. And I worry that Cori is really going to get into things (I'm thinking tree toppled on its side, stocking holders falling onto her head when she grabs the stockings, broken figurines, gifts torn open, etc). Since Cori is still to little to really get into Santa or understand the meaning of Christmas, in addition to us being on a really tight budget, I kind of feel like it's all for not. So why bother.

Yeah, I know - bah humbug. Maybe it will wear off closer to the 25th. Maybe I need some snow to feel in the holiday spirit. Maybe getting the tree this weekend will start to swing my spirits. But my "holiday joy" meter is on low.
One thing we did do Christmas related was to visit Phipps for their winter flower show. It provides a nice background for Christmas pictures of Corinne (when she stopped long enough to be photographed!)