My parents left today for an anniversary trip (their 30th)! They flew out of the Nashville airport at 6 am this morning so they came up yesterday afternoon and spent the night. All day I had been telling Will that Honey and Papa were coming to visit him. When the doorbell ring PA started barking her head off and Will started screaming “Papa, Papa, Papa!” What am I going to do with those two?!?! But Will was a little confused when they weren’t here when he woke up this morning

Yesterday I had a very productive day and I am trying to do the same today – so far it’s not going well I keep getting distracted by important things like planning our trip to NYC in October!! Whoo-hoo! We finally get to go back. The three of us and my Mom are going at the end of October and I can’t wait. (For real this time – the plane tickets are booked.) I want to check out a few places in Brooklyn while we’re there and of course see all our friends.

Remember when I said that Will did not prefer electronic toys? Well I think I spoke about 6 months too early! He has recently become very enamored with his tool bench and steering wheel that light up, make noises, and sing. I think he’s finally old enough to be able to manipulate them well and really enjoy what they do. He only takes sharp left turns with his steering wheel so maybe we have a future Nascar driver!

Well, we finally have everything unpacked and put away from our week in Chattanooga. All of the new toys have  a place. It did take putting some toys in a box to rotate in after a few months and I still haven’t found a perfect place to put the puzzles. How do you organize all of your kids toys? Do you have a play room?

In other news, we did a little returning today of some toys that Will got double of. I also wanted to get some Chirstmas ornaments that I liked at Sam’s. Sam’s had NO Christmas ornaments left and barely any other decorations, Target had a better selection but nothing I just had to have. I was also disappointed in the after Christmas sales at the mall, they weren’t any better than the before Christmas prices plus a lot of shelves were empty. I guess they’ll be full of spring clothes by the end of the week.

But, the day was not a total loss! I used some of my LifeWay giftcard to buy Ted Dekker’s new novel Burn, his second collaboration with Erin Healy. I can’t wait to start it but have 2 books ahead of it to read. I also used some of my Michael’s giftcard to buy a green photo album (now I have 3 green and 3 brown) and some pretty yarn that was on sale for $.99! I am going to use it to make a scarf when I get my knitting and purling down What was your favorite thing that you got for Christmas?

This has been Will’s favorite thing to do today – never mind the ever growing pile of toys he has all over the house!

Yup, that’s right. He’s sitting on the step and playing with his tennis shoe!