On your mark, get set...be festive!

The race is officially on! The Thanksgiving turkey left us with colds so we lost what can best be described as "critical time" in the world of holiday preparations. Battles against colds were waged and ultimately won, 44 empty boxes of Kleenex are all that remain. We went to Richmond on Friday to meet Ma Maw Sweetie for lunch and a little shopping fun - also known as the "I've decided that I would just like to wave to Santa today" game. We parted ways with Sweetie so that she could head up the road to DC for another shift with the twins, who apparently have decided against sleep. I strolled through a few more stores before heading back - which worked out well for Grace who decided that she would like that "Santa man" to bring her a pair of shiny white "spikey shoes" - funny, I was thinking something more smocked.