December 23, 2025

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• Marley slept all night last night which was wonderful. However, she also has gone to the bathroom about 15 times inside of the house tonight. This morning she did really well-maybe because the person watching her (your truly) was taking her out like clockwork. We do get a little bit lax at night around here about the pottying. 
• I really don't even remember this morning-I did a few chores and tried to mark as many things off of my list as possible. I have also completed all of my wrapping-Graham still has to wrap his present and the only other things upstairs is my new crock pot which needs to be wrapped as well.
• Campbell took Keaton to Lily's house to hang out for a little bit. When she came home, she decided that she wanted to go to Walmart, so we headed there.
  
• Campbell suggested that we do a bit of sparking so we were able to find one order to shop for and deliver. It couldn't have been any easier because we had shopped and delivered in less than 45 minutes. Campbell was hooked and wanted to keep shopping. We looked for other orders, but ended up just doing our own shopping. 
• While Campbell and I were out, the big boys left to go and play basketball at a friend's house. This just left Reagan and Whitman in charge of Marley. It went well for a while, but then I was requested to come back home.
• On our way home, we picked up Lily and Keaton. They requested to run to Dollar General to do a little bit of last minute Christmas shopping, Then it was back home because Keaton had to make supper for us tonight. 
• Keaton and Lily worked on potato skins while I got the chicken ready (it was two rotisserie chickens so it wasn't that hard to prepare) plus we had a salad. It was a delicious meal, and we all ate around the table tonight.
• After supper, I made icing for our sugar cookies, and everyone came down to ice them. Decorating cookies is one of our few Christmas traditions around here so it was fun to be able to do it tonight. I only made one batch of cookies but had to have 3 recipes of icing. 
• It was after 9 when the kitchen was straight again, so I didn't get much time on the couch and have had less time to read my book. I had big plans to finish 4 books by Christmas-I've started 3 of those 4, but maybe I can by the end of the year.