HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE STRESSMAS

It’s late and I’m wiped out, but I’m not done yet with the things I wanted to do today. The kids and I went through all of their bookshelves and cleaned out a knee-high (on them) pile of outgrown books to take to the AWC Media Sale (and thus donate to the international school afterwards). We stripped all the beds and re-made them with clean, sweet-smelling sheets. Karin insisted on having a “grownup” comforter, even though her bed hasn’t been pulled out to the full twin size yet. They helped clean up the entire kid’s department, although it was a...