Silly Little Elves

We had lots of snow yesterday and today, probably six inches in our yard. The kids had a wonderful but brief time playing in it today. Ellie wasn't terribly thrilled with having cold hands and came inside after about five minutes. Nick made it a little longer, but didn't find shoveling to be very fun and decided not to help Paul with the walkways after all. The rest of the day they played with all of the Christmas decorations. I should say they are collectively "un-decorating" the house. I spend quite a while each day tracking down and returning santas/snowmen/reindeer etc. to their rightful places.

We had a very eventful and slightly terrifying time with Eleanor this week and therefore I am very behind with the decorating. At this point am trying to decide if I should just stop now and call it good for this year! (Ellie had a couple of hard falls in a twenty four hour period and ended up in two different ERs Wednesday night. After eight hours, numerous neurological tests, and a CAT scan it was determined that she had a closed head injury/concussion and she was discharged. She is doing just great, much better every day and will have no long term effects from her injury. The bruising is almost gone now, and she has amnesia for the entire fall thankfully. We are so very lucky, and so thankful that all of our prayers for her good health were answered!)