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the calm before the storm



after much consideration, after clearly not considering how the hell i was gonna get that big honking truck from santa down to my parents house without the kids noticing before christmas, i decided that christmas will just have to arrive one day earlier in the Im household.  since we didnt do an advent calendar this year, i am REALLY hoping that mimi wont notice that it's not really christmas tomorrow.  (fingers crossed).  the other alternative was to just wait until we got home from visiting my parents and have them open them when we come back, but i really wanted mimi to be able to take her gift from santa with her.  it'll keep her busy in the car ride down there and back. 

i showed mimi the video message from santa the other day.  if you havent seen it from a previous post, i've linked it here as well.  i told her santa got her letter and sent her a video response (on the portable north pole).  i thought she was gonna cry when she saw/heard santa say her name and then open his book to show her that he had her picture in there and had marked that she had been "nice" this year.   i've never seen a more solemn look on her face than when santa told her that he knew she had been trying hard all year to always do her best.  and then she looked kind of worried and scared when he told her BUT you have to keep it up...like maybe she saw that as a threat, like if she doesnt, she'll move to the naughty list.  i think she gulped, then nodded very slowly, very seriously.  (she looks at me and asks, does santa know EVERYTHING?  the video convinced her that he was omniscient and that i think was kind of scary to her...that he knew when she was being naughty or nice.)  when santa explained his secret to how he delivered toys, i think she sort of tuned out for a bit, but by the end of the video she was beaming.  she gave me a big hug with a gigantic smile plastered on her face and sighed as she leaned into me and says, "i love getting messages from santa." 

a few hours later, she says to me with a worried tone, mom, will santa bring ozzy a gift? 

yeah, of course, why wouldnt he?  i asked

i'm just worried he might be on the naughty list because he hits everything.

i told her santa understood that ozzy was still just a baby and still learning and that he didnt mean to be so rough he just doesnt understand how to control himself yet, but he'll learn one day (soon i hope!!!).  and that seemed to put her mind at ease.

it's sweet how those two are...mimi looks out for ozzy and ozzy adores mimi.  in the morning, if i let him wake up mimi, he'll go zooming to her room, throwing the door open hard enough for it to bounce back off the wall, screaming, "MIMI!  MIMI!"  and then hop at the side of her bed, "UP! UP!" to be lifted up on the bed.  when i put him on there, he immediately scoots next to her to cuddle up and pretends to sleep...but just for a fraction of a second and he's back up to shake her, happily calling out MIMEEEEEEE!  and mimi is always happy to see him too and will give him a big hug.  ahhh, those two...i hope they always remember these moments.

i'm going to end this post here and just savor the quiet evening and the tidy family room for a moment.  tomorrow it will be a disaster in minutes and we have much to do before our trip.

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