To whom it may concern,

I often see other bloggers do "letters" on their blogs, and it seemed like a good thing for today so here goes nothing :-)


Dear Raya's dance teacher,

I appologize for skipping dance today. No one is madder about it than myself (well, maybe Raya is! She declared that we needed to drive there 'in the dark' tonight haha). I hate that i paid for  a class today that we didn't attend, especially when she doesn't have class next week either  because of the holiday. It was just one of those days!


Dear PayPal customer  service,

I blame you for the above dance mishap. If I hadn't spent 2 hours on the phone with you this afternoon I wouldn't have gotten distracted and forgotten Raya's ballet class! I'm sorry that the foreign customer service rep couldn't figure out how to help me, but even more sorry that it took 2 hours to come to that conclusion.


Dear Amazon customer service,

I  love you. I called today about a missing item and you immediately sent a new one to me, with overnight shipping, no questions asked. I'm glad that our Elf on the Shelf's *skirt* was of such  high priority to you :-)

Dear Raya,

Thanks  for being so sweet tonight. When I was singing "you are my sunshine" to you before bed, as always, you sang along and then adlibbed "please don't take my *Mama* away"   ....you said that's the way Sawyer sings the song to Grandma :-)

Dear Brielle,

Thanks for taking a super long nap today. I needed the break  to deal with crazy customer service calls!

Dear Lee,

Thanks for taking us bed shopping tomorrow. I'm looking forward to getting Brielle a big girl bed so that we can slowly start moving her to Raya's room soon. I hate the idea of messing with a good thing when Brielle sleeps so well in her crib, but I know that  after  Christmas I will  be anxious to turn the nursery into our new playroom!


Dear dishes,

Please wash  yourselves. Thanks .



Dear blog readers,

I  love you! Thanks for sticking around even on days like this when I blog about nothingness and then try to "save" the hopeless post by ending with random pictures of my cute girlies :-)

I think this is Raya's first ever sweater vest, and I've  decided that  they really suit her!  (And yes, she is wearing cherries even though I despise them. It was sooooo cheap though I couldn't pass it up, and Raya looks awesome in red :-)

She was trying to do her hands  on her cheek  pose ;-)

Dear Thanksgiving,

I appologize for not giving you due respect, but the girls were so excited to put up the Xmas themed window clings that we found in the $1 section at Target.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone! What are everyone's plans for this weekend? Can you top the excitement of mattress shopping?!?! ;-)