december’s memory and joy list

• abi saying the snow was like powdered sugar
• abi telling me, “mom, how old you are is too many numbers.”
• brookie needing her hands wiped completely dry… or she comes to me again
• brookie reading alone for hours in her room
• abi telling us that food goes down your body and out your drain
• abi sharing her first testimony in fast and testimony meeting – she bore it on Nephi and the “glass” plates
• brookie cuddling so nice just to throw up down my shirt – you are not a mother until this happens
• brookie discovering how to mop the floor – she will get out clean towels and wipe up anything she sees on the floor
• brookie loving to have her hair done and to do mine
• abi setting up the magnetic nativity on the door
• doing the advent nativity with abi every day
• abi asking if pine trees were “pineapple” trees
• brookie learning to say, “here you go”
• my little family jumping on the tramp in a snowstorm
• dan and I doing flowrider, ifly, and anberlin