Only one child is sleeping, but they are all tucked in bed and their bedroom doors are booby-trapped so they can’t escape undetected. Time to see how rapidly I go from carefully wrapping and making bows to tossing toys in gift bags.

Except for Tommy’s anger today was a good day. Now I just have to stay up all night wrapping gifts and cleaning the house. Tomorrow will be the first time EVER that we have no company coming here and no place to go on Christmas Day. In celebration, I’ve declared it “All Day Pajama Day”. […]

“Over the river and through the woods, to grandmother’s house we go.” No. that doesn’t sound right. How about ‘down winding back roads and past the purple bowling alley, to granny and grandaddy’s we go.’

File under TMI – You know it’s winter when you blow your nose and have a little contest between your nostrils to see which side makes more stuff. The left side is winning today.

The tree is finally lit! Last night was very relaxing and hopefully it gave Doug the energy boost to finish painting Noah’s room so we can move Noah’s stuff out of the kitchen and living room. I am close to be finished with gift shopping but the cupboards are bare so I’m heading out to […]

Yesterday I easily picked up the plane ticket I had purchased over the phone. I made it through security effortlessly and found a seat by a window thinking I’d watch planes, but ended up people watching instead. The flight to DC was quick and relatively smooth. Once there my brother rescued me from the confines […]

Am I the only person who is nowhere near ready for Saturday? 

I’m home but too tired to describe what it’s like flying with Tommy. The baby liked the flight (flip, flip). Still no tree lights here. 🙁 The entire contents of Noah’s bedroom are still filling the dining room and living room. I plan to freak out tomorrow, but now I’m going to lie in bed […]

I fly almost never so I’m mentally overpreparing in an effort not to worry about the teensy-tiny plane that I’ll board in the morning. I cleaned out my purse and removed the pocket knife, keys and hopefully anything that would make security cranky. I’ll buy a book to read once I get past security. I’m […]

Random thoughts: Not only is the tree getting set-up next Halloween, next year we are decorating it with all the orphaned socks in this house. Amy is carrying around a dried glue stick and occasionally applying it to her underarms. Not even the promise of sex inspires Doug to work on the tree. Yesterday I […]