Category: Family Matters

Is it just me or does Christmas come faster every year?? As a kid, Advent took forever–4 whole weeks?? A lifetime. I used to love it when Christmas fell on a Monday, because that meant that week 4 was really short. Now, I’d love for Christmas to be on a Saturday. To have a whole 4th week would be divine. Yes, I know that the 25th is the 25th no matter how you slice it, but still. The appearance of more time would be appreciated.

Why do I need more time?? Because I’m still living at the chiro’s office (practically). Because M now needs to go see our family doc before her surgery Thursday to verify that there’s nothing to worry about with the cough that she has (apparently, you can’t go under anesthesia if you have some chest ailments). Because I had to reschedule a hair appt Friday for a quick trip to the doc myself (girl parts behaving badly-hopefully not a big deal). Because I still have gifts to BUY, gifts to WRAP, gifts to PACK. And M’s having surgery Thursday. And we’re leaving Friday. Yikes!

But Christmas morning will come regardless, and it will be good, regardless, so I guess I’ll leave it at that.

Saturday we went to the Children’s Musuem again, and seriously, if you haven’t been, get down there!!! We had soooo much fun we bought a membership (Merry Christmas to us) for the year. They transform their big staircase into a big slide, and it’s a blast. M had the very best time. We will be going back often!!!

I just ordered M’s Christmas print on Snapfish. Wee! So far, she’s loving everything about Christmas except the Jolly Old Man himself. We’ve tried Santa on numerous occassions, and really, she just clings to me for dear life. Oh well. Jesus is the reason for the season anyway, right? And she digs her little wooden Nativity set. Well, she digs tearing apart the stable. We’ll get to playing the Holy Family sooner or later, I’m sure.

This weekend was filled with fun–Friday night L and I went on a date while Grandma babysat. Dinner and shopping at Target–does it get much better than that? It was date night at Target, that’s for sure–lots of couples clutching lists, I assume looking for gifts. We actually ran into friends of mine from my days at the tutoring center–strangely enough their Christmas party was at a restuarant next to Target. Small, small world.

Saturday we hit ToysRUs with Grandma, and while I picked up one measley gift, Grandma made a serious dent in her list! We then went over to the mall and M got some new Stride Rite shoes. In May/June she was a 4 1/2. Saturday she measured in at a 6 1/2!!! She’s my incredible growing girl!

After Grandma headed home and M took a nap, we went to our first “gymnastics” birthday party. What a perfect place for the 3 and under set to just wander around and jump to their heart’s content.

Sunday was another attempt at breakfast with Santa (last saturday was our first attempt)–thankfully Santa was in anothe room so we could have a pleasant breakfast before getting freaked out by the big guy. Then after nap we took our award-winning Christmas card picture, and headed downtown to look at the all the pretty lights. I capped the night off with a night cap with girlfriends at a Cookie Exchange.

Ah the holidays.

Other Stuff

Everything else just continues to move on….I continue to make small progress at the chiro’s as I rack up frequent flyer miles there. M’s gone 2x now but is still pulling on her ears. We’re scheduled for tubes on Dec 21st–I just can’t stand the thought of her having to go through this much longer. We may hold off if we get in for a recheck before that and her ears are clear….but it seems like this is the most proactive thing we can do at the moment.

Work is still bat-crap crazy–no other way to describe it. Counting down the days til the holiday break. Seriously considering playing the lottery, because you have to play to win.

Seriously, why haven’t I been able to leisurely hang around the internet, reading blogs of interest, googling assorted things that come into my head?? I have no idea, but I just know that things just keep getting busier and busier and busier. AUUGGGHHH!

Strange things I’d write more detailed antedotes about if I had the time:

1) M and her fascination with everything Christmas. I WILL find the time to post on this. It may be March, but I will post.

2) Some jackass stole my JoAnn’s ETC coupon yesterday. I kid you not. You know how they always put a 40% off coupon in the sunday paper? Well, I hadn’t put anything in my cart yet-just the sales flyer. And I was in the ribbon aisle, which is tiny, so I left the cart on the end of the aisle. I came back, the flyer was gone!! Bastards.

3) M’s first visit to the chiro. She did fine, he thinks it might help. I haven’t noticed anything different about her.

4)M’s joy at discovering I was making cookies today. She’s never seen me do that before (it must be Christmas). She ran around the kitchen saying, “Coo-kie! Coo-kie! Coo-kie!” She saw them as batter in the bowl. She saw them baking in the oven. She saw them cooling on the rack. SO exciting. Cookies for everyone!

That’s it–laundry, dishes, other assorted tasks are calling. Blah.