Good morning!! My hometown does "Christmas in _______" (name of town) today. They have breakfast with Mrs Claus, a craft show, shopping with elves for kids, crafts, a parade and Santa arrives at 1 for pictures with Santa. We'll head over around 10 when the craft show opens up (Santa is during Cs nap so we won't be staying for that). After that I have to finish getting my portion of FILs bday dinner prepped/cooking. We're having crockpot ribs, sweet potato fries, corn casserole, cheesy corn bread, and a chocolate kahlúa cake. (I'm doing cake and ribs) We are also finally telling the in laws today. C is going to wear his "Co-pilot coming soon" shirt. I can't wait to see how long it takes them to actually read it and realize what it means.
Exhausted!! DH is working nights right now, so solo dinner, bath and bed last night and then DS decided to wake up at 1am and crawl in bed with me. Then he woke up at 5 and tried to be up for the day. He rolled around till I finally gave up and woke up with him at 5:45.
Trying to keep the kids relatively quiet while DH sleeps downstairs. It's so cold out, so that's not an option today.
I'm debating if S needs to go to the Dr. Her nose is a green, snotty faucet. No fever, appetite is fine, she slept good.
Post by pghtruelove on Dec 3, 2016 10:11:17 GMT -5
We are going to join the Y today. Really need to get my butt in gear and lose weight. I just keep gaining and gaining and now none of my clothes fit. Also hopefully meeting up with some girlfriends tonight!
DH has been coughing all week long and every time I ask him to do something around the house or get something for the baby he whines. I finally told him to just go to the freaking doctor already. So apparently that means like this instant. He left a few minutes ago so I guess I'm solo parenting for a while. Seriously a toddler who throws tantrums every 5 minutes is easier to deal with than a sick whiney man cold baby.
Post by billyhorrible on Dec 3, 2016 12:09:38 GMT -5
Short run this morning, longer run tomorrow.
Tonight we have our town's tree lighting. Santa and Mrs Claus will be there, Mrs C reads stories to the kids. They also bring in real reindeers. There's face painting, cookie decorating, and crafts for the kids.
Tomorrow LBB has a playdate, but we're waiting to see what the weather looks like before deciding zoo, museum, or someone's house.
Shopping yesterday was great! We shopped from 11-10:30 and got home at midnight. My extroverted mind couldn't wind down until around 2am. O, my mom, and I went to a pancake breakfast with Santa. O screamed when Santa walked in and cried hysterically for about 5 minutes. Then Frosty and Rudolf came in and he cried for at least 10 more minutes. No pictures with Santa. No more plans the rest of the weekend. Probably church tomorrow. A nap today for me. Trying to get my sil here to take Christmas pictures of O for cards this weekend. Maybe I'll bribe them over with promises of a home cooked meal with steak. Neither of them cook much. Plus, that new oven needs used!!
We had a really nice, relaxing morning with minimal tantrums - major win! Then, DS proceeded to eat a lunch of champions, and is now napping. This afternoon we've got a birthday party for one of his cousins so I'm really hoping our happy toddler streak continues through the day!
We are going to join the Y today. Really need to get my butt in gear and lose weight. I just keep gaining and gaining and now none of my clothes fit. Also hopefully meeting up with some girlfriends tonight!
Post by mrsmonogrammed on Dec 3, 2016 14:28:50 GMT -5
DH surprised me by upgrading our phones while I was at work so we're on our way to pick them up from Best Buy. He's a magic deal wizard- we get $400 in Best Buy GC and only paid $60 to upgrade to 7's.
DH surprised me by upgrading our phones while I was at work so we're on our way to pick them up from Best Buy. He's a magic deal wizard- we get $400 in Best Buy GC and only paid $60 to upgrade to 7's.
Super jealous!! I'd love to upgrade my phone. And $400 in Best Buy GC!
DD is currently napping on me while I TCF. Later I'm taking the kids to an indoor bouncehouse place to meet a friend with kids.
Debating wether to go the Xmas parade tonight. Does anyone else have an H who is not interested in anything Xmas? If I play Xmas music he rolls his eyes and he has zero interest in going to the parade. I don't know wether to just give up or to try to make him go with the family
Post by billyhorrible on Dec 3, 2016 18:37:44 GMT -5
I'm super excited. The kids get one gift from Santa and then he fills their stockings. This year LBB wants a "Christmas blanket" from Santa (and says that's what BH wants to). I know he wants a microfleece blanket because he steals mine, but I've been having a hard time finding a "Christmas" blanket, since most are "winter."
He also asked, unrelated to holidays, for new footie pajamas, so I ran over to Carters to grab a pair on sale today, and found this!
Scratch that. H apparently is excited to take the kids to the parade. Who is this man?
H used to not be super into pre-Christmas things, but I've noticed he's a lot more tolerant of my crazy now that we have DS, especially this year now that he's actually getting excited about decorations and things. I teased him that he's going to be awake before DS Christmas morning waiting to show him that Santa came!
So the birthday party we were at today was at a Zap Zone, which also has all those arcade games for kids. The one DS got most excited about? A game that was essentially beer pong. I told him he's going to be set when he gets to college.
So the birthday party we were at today was at a Zap Zone, which also has all those arcade games for kids. The one DS got most excited about? A game that was essentially beer pong. I told him he's going to be set when he gets to college.
Hahaha he can be friends with my son who pulls only the beer cans out of recycling and walks around with one in each hand, pretending to drink them.
It's -30 and I'm trying to figure out how to not leave the house today and it's not going well..... I have to buy milk and fruit for M this week..... we will just bundle up and park close.... but I'm dreading it.
It's supposed to get that cold here tomorrow. I hate it. We might be skipping preschool.
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