After lunch I went upstairs and couldn’t help running into what Ms. Crazy Preschooler had been working on all morning, a deluxe, luxury stable for Baby Jesus, complete with a full kitchen, shower, couch and recliner set, not to mention a lovely queen sized bed for Mary and Joseph to…

This morning Ms. Crazy Preschooler yells in a most distraught voice from the attic: “Come and Get Noah! He’s going to SWALLOW Baby Jesus!” (She had been playing with her little nativity set and was quite concerned that Baby Jesus might be her brother’s midmorning snack.)

These are the start of icicles out my living room picture window. It has been raining all day and the minute the rain hits the ground it freezes. It’s very slippery out, obviously. I hate, hate HATE these awnings on my house. While they do keep things very cool in…