Goodbye 2008

Tonight I will gladly say goodbye to 2008. For me this has been a difficult year, healthwise that is. I think any year that a 30 year old woman with 2 small children has to face a hysterectomy is a difficult one. With God on my side and lots and lots of prayer I have come out swinging and better for it. I am back to my fiesty self and ready to face 2009 with all it has to offer. Frank and I, along with the kids are looking forward to a great year with lots of fun adventures and of course many fun stories and pictures to share. Happy New Year to all! Have a great night!

Holiday overload

The good thing about the holidays is all of the festivities, the comings and goings, the gatherings, the family you haven't seen in months but the bad thing can also be just that. Especially for a family with preschoolers who is used to a schedule, and then when there is the yucky crud thrown in everything is thrown out of whack. Don't get me wrong, we have had a GREAT Christmas and I (of all people) am looking forward to ringing in 2009 with great gusto but thank goodness for a few down days in between. The last 2 days the kids and I have stayed in our jammies until 10am, watched way too much TV and I've read 2 books! Talk about needing some rest. I've also done 6 loads of laundry, tried to tiddy up the house and I took down Christmas on Saturday and it still looks like a small tornado went through our house. The kids are loving all the new toys and it's been fun to see Megan play dress up and change clothes 3 or 4 times a day(thanks Nana). I am really looking forward to tomorrow and ringing in 2009. I'm not sure what our plans are but I just pray that 2009 is better than 2008 and if I spend it on the couch with my sweet husband at midnight then that is fine with me as long as we are all healthy and safe this next year.

Sledding pics

Mitch and Uncle Phil
Mitch

My whole family went sledding yesterday and had a great time. Here are just a few pics from the day.

Christmas pics

We had a great Christmas despite a head cold that we have all merrily shared since Monday. Poor little Megan has it now and has a raspy voice that actually makes her sound so cute when she talks. I thought I would share just a few of the zillion pictures I have from the week. Mitch and Megan were really goodbut are totally exhausted from all the hub bub and family adventures and today just wanted to stay home and play with their new toys. Merry late Christmas to you all!


Christmas Eve

Megan in her Princess jewels
Me and my crazy kids!

Happy 5th Birthday Mitch

Dear Mitch,
I can't believe you are 5 today. It seems like just yesterday you were tearing through the house as a toddler, getting into everything and wrecking havoc on the dog's lives. Now you are reading, doing math and interested in everything mechanical and constantly asking me how fast things can go. My nickname for you is Mr. Question. I love you dearly my son. You have taught me to slow down and enjoy the simple things in life and you have also taught me to speed up, like when you have to go potty really bad after preschool. I hope you have a great year and we can learn and explore many new things together.

Love you lots! Happy Birthday!
Mommy

To do list

This was today's short to do list. I don't usually make lists like some of you do. I keep most of it in my head and if I do make a list then I just leave it at home which is where the grocery list ended up today.

make cupcakes
clean bathrooms
vacuum
fold laundry
go to grocery store
go to bank
pick up cake
send gingerbread men to school with Mitch
wrap presents
make goodie bags

Tomorrow is Mitch's 5h birthday so the list sort of has a theme to it. What wasn't on the list but I would have like to do was read my book and get a little down time but it didn't happen at all. I guess I will fit that in somewhere next week. Party pics tomorrow!

It happened

Just like I thought it would, I lost it today. One of my BIGGEST pet peeves is bad customer service and rude people. When I worked retail(men's formal wear) we had to go to customer service training ever six weeks so good customer service, or even decent customer service, is kind of a thing with me. Anyway, I had to go to the mall today and get my wedding ring repaired. The woman there was SO rude that I actually reached across the counter, took my ring back, politely informed her she was rude and marched Megan and I out of the store. I was so miffed that I had to literally sit down with Megan and bribed her with a sucker for a few because the poor girl thought she was in trouble because I had drug her out of the store in such a huff! So now my ring is still in my jewelry box upstairs because I didn't have time to drive to Flatirons and who wants to go to another mall one week before Christmas! So now I am at home, I am going to try to chill for a bit before I start in on the dozens of gingerbread men that I have to make for Mitch's preschool tomorrow. I hope I don't bite all their heads off!! lol