Day 1580. The day before Christmas. And we had still not started making our Christmas cookies. Yesterday I realized that I didn't have enough butter, so Randy bought some that we left out over night so it'd be soft to make the cookies. As for yesterday, it was Sammy's last day in kindergarten before the Christmas break. He's now going to be home for two weeks.

 Day 1578. Yesterday the cleaning lady came at 9 am to clean our house one more time before Christmas. She always brings the kids some candy, and yesterday they got something special - big chocolate figures. When Sammy came home from kindergarten at 12:45 pm, the first thing he said was "egg", as she usually brings them "surprise eggs" that have chocolate and a little toy inside.

 Day 1576. This morning it was the alarm that woke us all up. Randy got up to make breakfast for the kids, while I had to get up to make Sammy's snack box for kindergarten. Tammy was the only one still in our bed sleeping. Before I lay back down next to her, I helped Emmy open his advent calendars. Randy always opens Sammy's advent calendar with Christmas songs at the table with him, while feeding him.