January 04, 2011

holiday rambling

• Reb is 98% potty trained. This is really great. Especially, today for instance, when during the time it took me to eat half a turkey sandwich, I got to take her to the bathroom 4 times.

• She's not even crying "wolf." She really did "go." Next skill to master: holding it for 74 whole seconds.

• We had a lovely Christmas vacation. We spent the first week lounging* around the house getting ready for Christmas. (Note to self: I will not be doing neighbor gifts next year. Repeat three times and review next December 1st.) It's not that I don't like our neighbors, I do like them. I also like keeping my sanity during an especially busy time of year. Something has got to go, and "neighbor gifts" it is.

*kids were lounging- I was frantically getting ready. One kid lounged so much, in fact, that when we were opening our presents Christmas morning, he whispered to me, “Mom?! I forgot to wrap my presents!” Der.

• We spent Christmas day at home with just our family. We love ourselves and think we're pretty fun.

• We spent part of the second week, recovering from Christmas (i.e. cleaning the house). Then we went to my in-laws for a few days. Stick and the kids chopped and split a mega-ton of wood and I took Reb to the bathroom 382 times. We listened to "Hunger Games" on the drive there, and were really getting into the story just in time for the batteries on my Sansa to die.

• We came back in the nick of time to clean the house some more for our impending New Year's Eve house guests. We managed to get every room in the house presentable, with the exception of the master bedroom where we sneakily hid all the mess that we didn't know what to do with. Then we closed the door. I hope none of the guests happened to open it. It's now Tuesday and 85% of the mess is still there.

• My Christmas present from Santa came yesterday. I think I'm in love. With the present. Ok, with Santa too. When I told Santa what I wanted this year, he said, "Ok. As long as I don't have to deliver it or put it together." Then Santa did some savvy shopping that included delivery and set up. (If we ever sell this house, my present will have to be part of the deal. It's super heavy. I felt sorry for those delivery men yesterday.)

• The kids had fun watching the delivery men sweat bullets as they muscled my new toy down the stairs into our basement. But nothing can really compare to their excitement when I told them they could have the box the treadmill came in.

• Note to self #2. Next year skip the Christmas toys and look for a gigantic box instead.

• Rooney got this toy at his class party before school let out for the holidays. I don’t really know what it is (technically speaking) but the kids love it. As far as I can tell it’s some kind of magical sand that won’t get wet even when you put it in water. Houdini volunteered to clean it up and now the mess is even bigger.

• And, that’s why I have my beautiful wood table covered in clear vinyl 99% of the time. I don’t particularly like the vinyl (at all) but I do love my table. Someday if I can ever get organized, I’ll get glass to cover it, but in the meantime, the vinyl will protect the wood from kids who like to play with magic sand and water. And from kids who we have to tell repeatedly, “Please don’t stab the table with your fork!”

• We still have our Christmas tree up. I really want to take it all down, but won’t let myself until I clean the mess in my bedroom. It may be a while.

• Our New Year’s Eve party was so rockin’ I found a cold frozen roll (as in, small hand held bread type thing) outside in the front flower bed on Monday. Some people clean up beer cans and cocktails. We clean up frozen rolls.

• The end.

2 Comments

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Um.......I warned you about that book right? RIGHT?? And let.....you allow your kids to listen. Sheesh.

I will be checking back in with you on Nov. 17th (to be precise) to see how many times you've used your new toy. Prove my theory wrong. I dare you.

It's good you clarified the "frozen roll" thing. I seriously was like, "A what???" It was so out of context and confusing!! ha ha ha.

**KT

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What's your theory, bossy?

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