I can hardly believe it is the first of December already. It feels like the calendar pages are literally turning themselves. The last couple weeks have been busier than I expected, and Baby V has had one heck of a growth spurt. Today the three of us ventured out to a local farm market to buy our family Christmas tree. It makes me so sad to see cut trees, though. I wish everyone would buy potted trees. We got a Douglas Fir that we will plant in the ground after the holidays. Loading it into the car was rather complicated and messy (good thing we drove two cars!), but all is well now. Getting it into the house will be another story…