long time no entry...

Wow, it has been almost a week since my last entry. I have been so busy this week I've barely been able to catch my breath. I am finally catching up at work... I've been a bit behind since we were all sick that week in November. Whew, it is a relief to be caught up. But at home, that's another story! I have been baking, shopping, wrapping, picking up E from daycare, visiting Santa, visiting my grandparents (in two separate nursing homes), filling out x-mas cards, feeding/bathing/changing a 19 month old, picking up toys, giving baths, doing laundry and I am exhausted. I haven't barely sat down any evening this week. Thank god for tonight. Although the mounting pile of gifts on the dining room table are staring me down. They want to be wrapped! Plus the living room floor is covered in E toys... I really should be picking them up. Do any of you other mom's feel this guilt and pressure I feel to have a clean house and appear to have everything "together"?? Oh how I don't have it all together right now. My house is a mess, I have more presents to wrap... etc, etc... I think I am about to burn myself out. I really miss my ME time. I love E to death. But I love myself too and I need some me time. Will have to work on that.

I have already opened some presents... G's family has mailed them all to us this year. Today I got some bio.lag.e hair products, which I love. We got a gift card for gas (which is great!) a set of snowman spreaders, a snowman cookie jar, a family pic of G's family, some cash, and I think that is it so far. Oh duh, my hubby can't stand waiting to give gifts... so he already gave me mine too. A beautiful black Co.ac.h tote bag. LOVE IT! Thank god for Co.ac.h outlets! He save lots of $$$ I'm sure I'm forgetting something else and the above paragraph will help you understand why my brain isn't fully attached, so please forgive me.

I think I am going to sign off here. I am helping my dad deliver flowers tomorrow (he is retired and delivers flowers part time for our local florist). He is sick and shouldn't be out in the cold, so he is going to drive and I'm going to do the running to people's doors. I'm kind of excited. What fun it will be to brighten people's day! :)

I should be back before Christmas... but in case I'm not... from my family too your's...I hope all my wonderful readers have a very merry Christmas! Take care, be happy and healthy and god bless!

Excuse my foot... I forgot to crop it out... and at this point I just don't really care... and YES! I know I need a pedi!

well... I thought I rocked...

Puppy was here 2 days. He's now been returned to his brothers and sisters. Too much of a handful for us. We should have learned last time... I won't go into that! We are not puppy people. I was being very unrealistic. Oh well, ya live and ya learn right?

So instead we went and bought this with the $$$.

So far we love it. My only request in a camera is that when you push the button the picture is taken instantly. I hate when there is seconds of elapse time... I never get "the" picture I intended to take with our old camera, this one is awesome!

Yeah, I rock... frickin ROCK!

I am the best wife in the WHOLE. WIDE. WORLD. Check out why here...

this is why you have kids... they make you laugh... uncontrollably...

Tuesday night G was giving E a bath. I was cleaning up the kitchen after dinner. All the sudden I heard him say, "don't poop!" Then he asked me what I do when she poops in the tub. I told him to take her out, let the water out and I'd clean it up. He lifts her out of the tub and starts drying her off... she turns around and points to the poop and yells at the top of her lungs...

"HOT DOG!"

OMG I still burst out laughing when I picture her screaming hot dog! Kids are great.

I haven't felt much like blogging lately... not sure why, just haven't. We have been quite busy, which is mostly the reason. Thursday night we went out for dinner for my dad's 55th birthday. He is officially a senior citizen... we teased him about that!

Friday I had to run a few errands after work... bank and grocery store. Picked up a few last ingredients for an appetizer I was making for a get-together on Saturday night. I made a yummy taco dip. Mmmmm. It was tasty.

Saturday I went to a ladies luncheon with my mom and sister for our church. I had a real nice time. We had a delicious lunch and the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake for dessert. We did a gift exchange and I got this... a cute ornament candle holder.

Afterwards I did a bit of shopping around town with my sister and mom. Got J and T something... then went to check out something for G. I can't wait to give it to him! He is going to *LOVE* it!!!

Last night we went over to T's for some snacks, drinks, presents and games! It was fun. E stayed up until almost 10! G had way to freaking much to drink... drank an entire 1.75 bottle of wine practically by himself... had to stop twice on the way home so he could puke. I wasn't happy. At. All.

The girls exchanged gifts...

T & H gave E a cute backpack...

J gave E this cute sweater and a book...

T gave me some Ar.bon.ne products...

J gave me this cute "R" Coa.ch key chain...

(My last name starts with an R, in case you are wondering)

This afternoon we tried to get a "good" pic of E for our x-mas cards... this is the kind of luck we had...

The first and the last one aren't all that bad... but we have another one that we may also use. We'll see... as will most of you!

2 more weeks 'til Christmas! Can't wait!!

these things are Fun with a capital F!

13% Geek

Although it isn't quite posting like it should... the percentage should be after the "I AM" not in the top left hand corner... whatever.

Wow Tim, you really are a geek!

MN SUCKS

Why do I live here? It snowed again today. I ~HATE~ driving in this weather. I grip the steering wheel, my blood pressure rises, I grind my teeth and I give myself a headache. Driving in snow sucks. Especially when a plow is driving directly at you... POOF... you are covered in a blizzard of snow and have zero visibility for what feels like 2 minutes, when in reality it is probably 5 seconds. It took me 1 hr and 10 minutes to get home tonight. I live 17 miles from work. I snailed along at 30 mph tops. I came home and told G we either need to move to town or I need a vehicle with 4-wheel drive. Snow SUCKS ASS. Yes, I said ass. It sucks ass. Sucks ass bad. Ice sucks ass even more.

I will post some pics this weekend of our lovely white outdoors. So far since Saturday we've had about 8 inches of snow. Sounds like we'll be getting another 5 by Friday. Frickin yeah for us.

I've kinda had a bad day, can ya tell? Have been kind of grumpy and irritable. I almost threw G out in the snow today.

I need to get some sleep. Night.

brrrr...

It is winter. Yuck. We are buried in snow. I hate it. I don't really feel like blogging much lately. Must be the 1st of winter blues. I'll get over it... in the meantime I'm going to enjoy just catching up on some blog reading... I haven't done that in over a week either! So, I hope you are all toasty warm in you homes... or have made a smart life decision and live somewhere warm!