This weekend already has all of the makings for hiding away inside all cozy and warm. The snow has started falling, I can smell the beef stew I put in the crockpot this morning, and Cory and Cole were just dancing to Harry Connick Jr.'s latest Christmas album.

I had an incredibly stupid mommy moment soon after Cole and I were up at 6:30 a.m. He had our bottle of syrup, and I was watching him hold it upside down. I didn't think he had the cover off, but hey, guess what? Silly me for thinking he wasn't even capable of taking the cover off yet! So there he sat pouring syrup into his diaper bag and on the rug while Mommy looked on adoringly from a distance. At least the maple smell fits in nicely with our winter weekend, huh? :)