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Little Man has been overloaded with kids the last two days. Well, at least for him. As an only child, he doesn't get to hang out with other kiddos all that much. Anyways, yesterday one of my fantastic mommy friends stopped by with one of her kiddos. Little Man had SO MUCH fun chasing the 3-year-old girl around, trying to be a big kid. It was cute. That afternoon, he went to his best neighbor buddy's house to play when mommy went to work. He was so happy to be there, he wouldn't even kiss me good bye. I tried to pick him up, and he screamed thinking HE was leaving too.
Today his little girlfriend came over for a few hours, while her mommy went to work. He loved it, but I think she was a little overwhelmed! hee hee. He is now passed out in his crib.

I love watching him with other kids, and I wonder what kind of little person he will become. He is so happy, and outgoing, and friendly. Right now it's to the point that he is obnoxious to other kiddos, kind of getting in their face, etc. I am hoping that part is just his age, and will grow out of the toy-taking stuff. Fingers crossed!

Accomplishing things is good.

We put up the Christmas tree today! I also got more Christmas shopping done. I love putting the Xmas stuff up, it always makes the house seem so warm and fuzzy. Yahoo for the holidays. I don't usually do it this early, but we'll be so busy in the next month I wanted it out of the way! Just last year we were buying all the xmas stuff (tree, etc) since it was our first Christmas in the house. We never did much decorating in our apartment!

And there's still tomorrow!

Happy Lazy Friday!

I was going to have to work today, but all of my students wanted today off - fine by me! We've had a nice, relaxing day so far. Got out the Christmas stuff, will slooooowly start putting it up. I love days where we can all sit at home and hang out together!

Even though we have pounds of leftovers, I am craving Chipotle. I have a coupon, so maybe we'll have it for dinner anyway. Leftovers can wait!

Hope you had a great Turkey Day!

False Turkey Day Advertising.

Ok, when you tell me that you will prepare me a turkey with all the fixin's, so that I shell out money to you, it should be PREPARED. I was so annoyed when I went to King Soopers today to pick up our "prepared meal," and none of it was prepared. I had to cook the turkey for 3 hours, as well as cook everything else. The "meal" was a box of things I could have purchased at the store myself for half the price. If I'd have known, I'd have done that! Damn! Oh well.
Other than that PITA, Thanksgiving has been great. Little Man LOVED watching the parade while Grandma and I made rice krispy treats. Hubby and his brother happily watched football all day. We did a lot of relaxing, and eating.
Now I am debating whether or not to venture out to Black Friday. Hmmm. I want to go to Kohl's, so I'm going to try their online sale when it starts at 1 am EST (11 here). If I can't get what I want, I'll head out at 5 am. I need a deal damnit!

Happy Turkey Day!

Catch up time!

Sorry I've been MIA!

I've just been super busy. Let's see if I can catch up....

-The kitchen. MIL is here and has helped me really spruce it up. We painted, hung curtains and got a new chandelier. It is a completely different room and looks great! Now I have the bug and want to paint everywhere. Next project, hopefully my bedroom!
-Little Man was baptized today! Finally. His uncle was his godfather. I was so proud of him, he did great. He let me hold him and didn't cry during any of it - not even getting water poured on his little head. He was a rock star!
-Work is going great, but taking up a lot of time. I have 3 students now so I'm working about 10 hours a week. Plus the travel time. I am enjoying it though, it feels good to be impacting lives!
-I am thinking about going back to school. I'd like to do accounting. I have to figure out if we can afford it and if I have the time and energy to put into it, but that's my current, uh, "interest."

There you go! We've had lots of visitors these past few weeks too, so I am EXHAUSTED. This week is playing catch-up with housecleaning and all that jazz. For Turkey Day, my mom and Hubby's brother are coming over for a nice casual parade and football-filled day. And of course rice krispy treats! Yummy!

Partying with Papa Jim!

Little Man's grandpa, my dad, is coming to visit this weekend. The house is nice and clean for once. Little Man is all ready to show off some of his new skills since last time we saw PPJ. Should be fun!

We still have SO MUCH candy left over from Halloween. It's sick. I'm resorting to meals made entirely of Milky Way and Snickers. I would be happy to not see chocolate for a while. Ugh.

Oh check out this - it's tops on hubby's Christmas list. (he wants the kegorator version)