> I'm trying to mirror my mother's blog so that I can
> <http://familychatterbox.blogspot.com/>
> 
> What is the best way to deal with this?  Basically,
> I want to change settings (mirroring depth? 

Add a filter
if you only want december: -* +*/2008/12/*
This will get links like:
<http://familychatterbox.blogspot.com/2008/12/eleven-days-til-christmas.html>