Plans change quickly in this family… we went from a leisurely day of online van perusal (ok maybe not leisurely) to Ken being upstaged (happily) by Mike, finding a van, getting insurance and THEN heading an hour + to mom and Mike’s to spend the night and get in to get registered in the morning. What timing!!! All this while Ken is taking apart Trinity’s crib – into a BIG GIRL BED… so she was slightly confused – here is  the crib, now it is a bed and now… we are going to Grandma’s???? So she is sleeping on the floor in our bedroom at Grandma’s tonight and then BIG GIRL BED tomorrow.

The plan for Christmas Eve is relatively simple – register new used van, get groceries we forgot/didn’t have time to get for Christmas Day, stop in to get some larger cloth liners for Echo’s diapers, go to church, have dinner, open presents, drive new used van home (and get there in one tired piece). We may just make it on all counts! But what a relief! We will be actively mobile again after over 3 months!!!!

So it is now past midnight, Echo is fussy and I am sure I have some sorting through to do of my manic pack job to get here to mom’s so it is off to bed for me and the littlest of our not so little family… Happy day before the day before Christmas!

Grandma and Echo snuggling before bed (note what Grandma calls Echo's pixie ears!)