These two are always found on a screen right when they wake up. For the first time in forever I actually made breakfast. Day old challah french toast. Yum. The syrup we recently picked up at Wagner Tomahawk Shell  on the way to the cottage turned out to be excellent. Thick and robust, not that amber junk. This convenience store is one of the best in the Northwoods. My dream guest room is finally complete. The rug we got from Wayfair was extremely low pile, but it looks good.

We were starting to get used to our new space in the attic. Some of us had claimed our spots. Again, random stuff the old owners left behind, turned out to be pretty useful.   We finally have a spot to house all of Meadow's books. Another piece of random furniture the previous owners left that ain't so bad I guess.

All winter we had plans to go winter camping, but because its been so so cold we had to keep putting it off. Scott was supposed to work on my birthday and last minute didn't have to. We decided this would be the perfect time to go before the snow melts.  I think we would've went earlier in the worst winter in recent memory, but a baby and sub-zero temperatures don't exactly mix.

Friday morning we went down to Milwaukee for our second Thanksgiving. While looking through Black Friday ads for fun I saw that Shopko had nutcrackers on sale. We buy a new nutcracker every year to add to our collection. We even have a song we sing called, "I've Got a Collection of Nutcrackers." Both of us have worked on Black Friday, but never shopped. At least we went later in the day and not when all the stabbing crazies are out. That's only at Wal-Mart. We like to avoid Wal-Mart when possible. We had a hard time deciding which one to get. We settled on a gnome. On our way to Shopko I spotted a frozen custard joint. We stopped for lunch. Jumbo's turned out to be a one of kind stop even if it seemed like it was run by Chicago-natives. Chicago-style red hots at a custard joint? And no cheese curds?! Just like in Amelie that gnome is everywhere. We decided to feed Meadow before heading on. I ate before we made the final f...