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Time for a Christmas To-Do List Already?

I’m not sure where the month of November went–well, I mean I do–it went to working full-time, keeping up with things at home, having fun with the wee-ones and Facebook (the great time-sucker of 2008)….so I guess that means December is upon us.

Because we travel for Thanksgiving, we have a weird tradition of putting up the Christmas tree before Thanksgiving. This ensures that we have the tree up the first Sunday of Advent, which sometimes falls on the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend (like this year). Given that we have a fake tree that must be assembled and there is furniture to be moved, we are putting the tree up after our little elves are asleep tonight and will trim it tomorrow. I can’t wait to see MAM’s expression when she finds the tree tomorrow morning!

When does your tree go up? Is it fake, or do you do the real deal?

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Getting into the Groove…

So we are now well into week 2 of getting everyone out of the house for the day by about 7:30am. Week 2 of not returning to said house, after a full day’s work, until close to 5 pm. Not really sitting down for the day til after MAM is in bed, somewhere between 8:30-9pm. And I am getting into the groove of it all. 

Last week the sheer amount of laundry the children generated while at school/daycare was daunting. Add to it the lunchbox/snack containers/bottles/cereal bowls and I was on the edge of going back to disposable baggies and bottle liners. But I survived, and played with when there is time to do what, and this week is going a little smoother. I’m still not really sitting down or “done” til about 9pm, but that’s Ok.
A few random things from this week: 
1) Barack Obama is MAM’s new obsession and inspiration for good behavior. “Barack Obama has black pants. I have black pants!” “Barack Obama is the president. He’s my best friend.” “Barack Obama is asleep now. Good night, Mama.” I kid you not. I may just have to become a fan of his on Facebook. 
2) Light bulbs are hot and can burn tender 3 yr old skin. MAM got curious about a lamp at school today, and has a blister to show for it. Ouch. 
3) Three year olds are completely capable of diagnosing themselves. She told me Thursday she had an ear infection (again)….and we found out Friday she was right. Now if only she can learn to call in her own antibiotics…..
So that’s it for now. As soon as I figure out where to squeeze in more blogging, I will.