Ab’s boys were both in school the week before Christmas, but SJ and I were home. Ab and I decided to spend the day together, taking Selah June and Jules around with us for some last-minute Christmas shopping.

Leading into the holidays, we started facing a constant stream of toy requests from Little Miss. You don’t realize how much stores stage their displays to push crap on you until you walk into them with young children. If you have never experienced this, let me know. I’ll loan you a kid, and you can enjoy some of this particular kind of fun.

Jeremy and I discovered that Selah June would accept the idea that Santa would review photos of the toys she found that she wanted for Christmas. Though we couldn’t buy them because we were too close to Christmas, we could take pictures of them.