I'm getting excited for Christmas. I think I love being a mom at Christmas more than a kid...I have oodles of presents to be excited about giving. This year our children did slave labor for me for about a month and earned money to buy eachother presents. I'm excited to see how happy they will be to give eachother presents. I think it will bond us and them together more to have them grateful towards eachother for nice things and grateful for the experience of sacrificing and being generous. They are such good little kiddies...I'm choked up thinking about my older ones growing up. I think that's part of the reason I want more. 10 is the official number I've always wanted but just about everybody I know thinks..okay not everybody but my husband and my mom (how many more opinions really matter in life anyway?) ...anyway to continue this run-on...just about everybody I know thinks I might as well go for 12. My mom's exact words were, "Would you deny me the right to say that I have a daughter with 12 children." She was kind of joking and being silly but at the same time....I'll take it as a compliment that two very important people in my life who know my weaknesses are confident that I could handle as many kids as I want. William is a doll..He has been sleeping all night and lots during the day too. His dimple is darling...the bubbles that he blows with his sweet little mouth are adorable and we just love him more and more each day. | 