On the NINTH day of Christmas

We woke up to frozen water pipes! That's Christmas-y, right? Hopefully, 'cuz I spent the whole day trying to figure out how to fix the problem, and thus didn't do much Christmas-ing with the kids... it appears to be frozen somewhere outside. Yikes....

We're sleeping at my parents' house tonight. I got sick of the 17 layers of filth on our hands that we couldn't wash. ;) How'd they do it in the old days?

We read "Penny's Christmas Jar Miracle" by Jason F. Wright. Very sweet; made me get teary.