Just a few meager resolutions

#1 Eat fewer gallons of ice cream
#2 Cure cancer/end world hunger
#3 Exercise every single day
#4 Become fluent in Spanish
#5 Make my first million
#6 Keep my house spotless
#7 Potty train Bug
Ok, obviously you can tell by that last one that this is a bogus list. Here’s my real list:
#1 Never [...]

I got you a little something

I am trying ultra hard not to fling myself with abandon onto this very couch I am sitting on and surrender to delicious, delicious sleep. There’s just TOO. MUCH. TO. DO.
But I am not going to bore you into the tedium of my to-do list (clean up all of Christmas, shop and pack for [...]

Christmas card, take one

Happy happy Christmas to you all.

Reason #83

We’re waiting on Lorso to bring our food to the table at Boston Market, so I strike up a conversation with Bug.
“Bug, guess what day is coming soon? Like in two days?”
He grins and looks at me slyly. “Tuesday!”
“Well, yes, Tuesday, but what day will it be? What special day?”
“Christmas Day!”
“That’s right, and [...]

Christmas checklist

Christmas presents bought? Yes! Except for one or five.
Wrapped? Eh.
House decorated? Sure. Tree’s up, stockings are hung, reindeer head on a rolled up newspaper that Bug made at school is propped outside front door. Good ‘nuf.
Christmas cards sent? NEXT QUESTION PLEASE
Thank you notes for teacher gifts done? [...]

No, really, you shouldn’t have

In addition to getting gifts from families at the PMO, I am also receiving gifts from the other women who work there, women that I spend a considerable amount of time with each week and consider good friends. The evolution of this gift giving was a convoluted, twisted process that I don’t totally understand, [...]

The Day I Almost Didn’t Blog

I was so busy staring for 3 hours at the choices of wrapping paper at Target this afternoon, a holiday tradition 4 years running, that I left scant time for blogging. Why is it so hard, Internet? It’s just wrapping paper! People crumple it up! And yet I stand and debate [...]

I’ve also heard that it’s become a tradition to buy a gift for the authors of the blogs you read.

I know I’ve been doing a lot of Can You Believe What I Just Discovered/Look What Amazing Thing I Am Going To Tell You About posts, but what can I say, I write from the heart. And my heart is just FULL UP with OMGs right now.
For example, I recently discovered that when [...]

I promise I do more than just watch TV

Last night I watched White Christmas for the first time. I probably had seen various scenes of it before, but I remembered very little about what the plot actually was. And now, I think I’m good. I watched it, I can reference it, I have the requisite cultural knowledge of it, but [...]

Mayday

I need a holiday from my holiday. I’m glad to see family and all, but after a while ALL THE THOUGHTS IN MY HEAD ARE IN CAPS LOCK BEGGING FOR ME TO SHOUT THEM OUT LOUD. Fortunately my self-control wins out. Most of the time.
Also, I’m beginning to wonder if having [...]