it was the greatest Christmas ever!

but quite honestly C says that every year so his opinion might not be all that credible. However even the grinch David proclaimed it to be one of the best holidays he could remember. And it was except for this cold making it's way through the family & MIL being banished to her room with a temperature, luckily after she had made the dressing and sweet potatoes! It was just a great day of course we got the wake up at 6.30 and by 7:15 the boy had his ps2 hooked up & going. Around 10:30 or so most David's family came over for a late breakfast and to exchange gifts, it's amazing just how many folks you can fit into this house! It cleared about 2:30 with folks headed to MIL's house, to other in-laws and David & JJ off to spring their father from the nursing home for Christmas dinner. Amusingly David "forced" C to go with his grandmother leaving behind the ps2 but as luck would have it there was a brand new wii waiting at her house for him to play with. So he managed. As luck would have it Santa brought a wii game to our house gotta love that Santa!
It was a fantastic family day with no crazy to be found. Indeed the greatest Christmas ever!

never mind boxing day

henceforth let the day after Christmas be known around the land as pajama day!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all my friends, family & readers!!!

twas the night before Chritmas

Make sure you check out Norad Santa today you can track his whereabouts all day long even click on the videos to get a live feed.
fun for kids even us old ones!

and then there are the calendars

several years ago I started giving my MIL a new calendar each Christmas and to be helpful and make it special I would add all of the family birthdays & anniversaries etc...A nice little easy but personal gift until everyone else on that side of the family decided they wanted one as well. So I still have 4 calendars to fix before Thursday morning on top of wrapping, baking and a few other dishes I need to cook. And laundry let us not forget my old friend laundry.

phase II of my master plan

if all of the Christmas gifts are purchased by the 12th that in turn means I can wrap at a leisurely pace instead of the frantic night before Christmas OMG I have so much stuff to wrap. On top of which I usually have to hide in the garage & wrap on the washing machine & dryer to avoid prying eyes. As luck would have it this years C is spending tonight at my MIL's house which means I can spread out in the living room and wrap hmm probably all evening long...

I know I say it every year but this time I really mean it

Next year I am not waiting till the last minute to Christmas shop!
There will be no more 7 hour panic shop extravaganza. I will be finished shopping by hmm okay let's give me until December 12th. The 12th is totally reasonable. You heard it here first mark your calendars folks. I really really mean it this time.
no really

99th percentile

C has been a big kid from the start. Always tallest in his class or on his team and he seems to grow like a weed so I learned very early on like when he was 6 months old not to expect him to make it through a season in one size. Basically to buy clothes a little bigger than he needed and hope for the best. Shockingly it seems like we are quickly transitioning to the men's department for clothing. The upper end of boys clothing are just fitting and as I look at clothing this Christmas some of it will be from the men's department. No really shopping the men's department for my 8 year old son.
Wonder if I could get him to start smoking? or drink coffee? will putting a heavy book on his head stunt his growth any?

snow!

oh um yeah no not here in K-town but up north they got plenty of it going on! We still have rain lots and lots of rain so it'll be not so much a white Christmas but instead a damp Christmas. As luck would have it kiddo & I are not traveling north today which was the original plan I have a feeling even if we got out of here we'd be stuck at an airport for a day. I suppose sometimes things work out for the best.
Hope my folks have enough milk & bread!

yes dear I am going to blog about it....

we got new phones yesterday. You don't even need to go to the store any longer you can order phones online and they ship them to your door and then program them with one easy phone call. You can even get them free if you promise to give them your first born or something like that could be a kidney not too clear about the details David ordered them. So new phones I got the pretty green one going to miss my pretty pink phone but I like the green one, David calls to program the phones starts with mine very easy boom done hands me my phone and then I spend the next hour transferring my contact list I think I could have done it online but that involved purchasing something and they already get enough of my money. David then moves onto to his own phone and they could not get it to load or work could not find a signal who the hell knows. Customer service tries a few things and then finally transfers him to another department maybe they could help. At that point I suggested that since he was calling from his phone perhaps that was why the new phone would not load his number properly.
I was then told not to blog about this.