Advent Story Book

I had read on a blog I follow about an Advent story book.  I have verses I read w/C each day, but they seem to be over his head, so I thought--book, genius.  I ordered it on Amazon on Tuesday, and it came yesterday (geez, super speedy).  I started reading w/C today in a super speedy fashion (we have 16 stories to catch up on).  The ideal/point of the book is to read a little story each night of advent.  The story is about a little bear, Benjamin, that is so excited about Christmas.  He just can't wait, so his mom agrees to tell him a story each night to get him to Christmas.  Her stories are short, and always lead to a lesson about God.  Precious.  He seems to really like it so far, and the pictures.  We've read 7 stories throughout the day today.  9 more behind now.

I am so close to being finished w/Christmas shopping/wrapping.  I still need my brother and SIL's family list--ahem!  I bought a couple of things for my oldest nephew, but haven't got anything for my youngest nephew or Ken and Traci...otherwise, I'm finished.  I've got a few things in transit on Amazon, but otherwise--good to go.  Falalalalalalala! 

I had to shovel the driveway today since Scott didn't do it.  Me no likey to shovel.  My back is killing me.  C kept falling down in the high snow, so before we went shopping I had to strip him of his wet coat and jeans (while he was crying from the cold).  He insisted on goofing off the 30 minutes it took me to shovel (what was that 2 year old thinking!) and goofing off leads to falling over and over again.  I convinced him to keep his hands in his pockets since I was a bad mom and didn't put gloves on him (I really had no concept how long shoveling would take for 3 inches of snow).  He was great though on all our little errands.  We went 5 places and that's a lot of patience for C.  They were all fairly quick except Best Buy (which I hate at the holidays).  At 11:45 I had to wait in line like 10 minutes.  It's hard to entertain a 2 year old standing in line that long.  I let him hold a copy of the movie Cars that was in the line.  This made him HAPPY!  All three of us have a cold and my head is killing me from it.  I have to make gingerbread cookies for our playdate tomorrow, so I have to get sanitized.