Waiting for snow

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There's a slow moving storm system over us right now. It's been dropping freezing rain on us since yesterday evening and is supposed to turn to snow this afternoon. Supposedly, we're to get 6-10 inches of snow tonight and an additional 2-4 inches tomorrow. Maybe we'll end up with a white Christmas after all!!

Everybody is on their way back to healthy now! Jake and Kenna are still battling a cough, although Jake's is worse than Kenna's. I laid in bed this morning and counted seconds between his coughs... 7 seconds, 10 seconds, 7 seconds. At this point a cough, while annoying, is welcome over what we had last week!

All the Christmas shopping is done and all the gifts have been sent out. We do still have a lot of wrapping to do, but we'll just have to tackle it after the kids are in bed this week.

I don't remember if I mentioned that Jake had been making comments about knowing who Santa is last week. On Sunday, I heard him tell Josh that Santa lives in our house and that it's really Mom. I just kind of blew it off until we got home and then we talked to him about it. He said that no one had told him... he just figured it out. He's been sworn to secrecy, which may just kill him!! On one hand I feel a little sad that he no longer believes, but on the other it's kind of a relief to not have to keep telling him half truths. I think it's much easier to emphasize the real reason we celebrate Christmas without the dude in the red suit getting in the way.