Due to a certain adorable little baby, I was dead tired for most of Christmas. It did provide a wonderful opportunity to ignore chores and spend the whole day playing or reading. The boys had a great time and enjoyed all their presents. They ate mainly candy, woke up early, and then crashed for an afternoon nap.
PB asked Santa for a car, airplane and tootsie rolls. He has complete confidence that he is getting all of them Christmas morning.
It’s easy to think of reasons to not do something: it’s cold, I’m tired, life is hectic, etc.
But sometimes it is a lot nicer to make excuses to go and do something.
We went on a little hike. It’s not necessarily great hiking weather, and there aren’t fall leaves to see, or spring flowers or even snow. I was very pregnant, the kids aren’t always easy to get out of the door. But we went anyway.
We walked slowly and didn’t go very far. But all of us were happier because we went.
I ran across Dinovember last year, but didn’t do anything. This year, the dinosaurs had quite a fun November in our house. Here is what they were up to.
The kids enjoyed it as well as the adults. PB even had suggestions for things the dinosaurs could do like pillow fighting and playing cars. It helped C when we woke up a bit grumpy to go find what fun things the dinosaurs were up to.
Babies are too unpredictable. I am uncomfortably pregnant. Both my other boys arrived before I reached 38 weeks, although one was induced, and I wasn’t certain on the other due date. I’m past 37 weeks, so now it is just waiting. I know my husband would love to be able to plan work off better if he actually knew when the baby was coming, but our baby will come just when he is ready. And really, I don’t know if I am.
Joe has been super busy with work. He took a promotion and will be the Rehab leader at one of the nursing homes. But he still has all his old responsibilities, and he has picked up more home health patients. Because of the extra work, we decided to buy an second car. It’s the first time we’ve had two cars in the 6.5 years we’ve been married. We bought an old truck that matched our small budget. (I really did not want to get into more debt.) I think Joe will enjoy not biking to work when it is snowing now.
We put up our Christmas tree and started listening to Christmas music. It’s not after Thanksgiving yet, but I wanted to get it done before baby came, and Christmas is less than a month away.
Here are the kids at the museum Grandma and daddy. I went Christmas shopping.
Fall changed quickly from warm to cold. It meant a morning of frustration as I tried to figure out a good system to prevent the chicken water from icing over that did not involve lots of input from me. (Which, if you would like to know I used an aquarium heater in our existing nipple waterer that seems to be doing just great. Joe did have to take the thing apart so we could put it in the bottom section though.)
I miss being able to just send the boys outside, but I’m not minding the cold too much. I’ve got a nice sized baby belly to keep me warm. According to some friends, I look very cute too (I’m not sure about that–I’m more distracted by the fact that moving too often equals back pain).
The first snow came, and I was happy to find that I had adequate snow gear for the kids. They went out sledding and tromping around. PB also shoveled the walks, and didn’t do a bad job. I was grateful for the help.
Yesterday, PB went with my husband over to his parents to help move a few items. I stayed home to finish a book. When they got home, PB walked in extremely excited. he acted like he just won a free trip to Disneyland. “Mom, Little Ceasers opens in seven days!” He talked about it all night, and even made a countdown. So next week, we will be eating cheap pizza because that is the best kind of food when you are five.
Liz Braithwaite 