Mrs. Bachelor Girl: Tree's up! Decorated, even!
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: Ratine's Christmas cards are in progress! In other news, she now has Martian hands and Manic Panic hair.
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: On Black Friday, some people arm themselves with sale papers, running shoes and coffee; I arm myself with a glue gun, house slippers and hot chocolate. LET THE DECORATING COMMENCE!
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: Someone stayed up entirely too late watching The Aristocats on Netflix and cutting out teeny paper flags. #lame
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: SOMEone decided she wanted nothing to do with the toddler area of the playground at Chick-fil-A and proceeded to climb aaaaalllll the way to the top of the big-kids' slide...and then couldn't get back down. So Mama had to wedge her body in there, climb up
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: Harper, this is Birdie. Birdie, Harper.
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: Birdie's "bubble" bath.
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: Birdie plays "Joy to the World."
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: Birdie walks a mile in Ratine's shoes.
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: Birdie gets creative.
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: Gone fishin'.
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: Presenting Birdie.
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: Harper spent the weekend with her grandparents, but now she's home and Birdie's back in action...working on her Cirque du Soleil audition?
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: Birdie sits and thinks about what she and Harper can give to the King.
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: Birdie's checking to make sure there's enough room in here for candy.
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: I wonder if there will ever come a time when doing stuff like this doesn't give me that thrill of feeling like a real-deal, totally legit mom.
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: Harper made a Christmas gift for me! (With a little help from her teachers.)
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: Birdie goes after the peppermint ball Mission-Impossible style. She's going to be very disappointed when she eats one.
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: Starring Birdie in The Princess and the Pee...er, Pea.
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: Birdie goes joyriding...on a dinosaur! Yeehaw!
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: Birdie waits with Harper's Christmas surprises: a mini-trampoline, a tricycle, and a cordless vacuum cleaner...yes, a vacuum cleaner. Hey, it's what she wanted! (Toddlers are weird, man.)
Mrs. Bachelor Girl: SQUEE!! I'm definitely more excited than she is.