Christmas bustle
I did not post my weight-loss stats on Wednesday because I didn't lose or gain anything. I am still at 165, which is good since I have lost about 12 pounds so far and I look waaaaay better than I did. I am confident about how I look, and I know I can enjoy Christmas and feel good about myself and the clothes that I am wearing. And after the Christmas festivities, I get to lose more weight!!! Whoo hoo! I can't wait for the holidays to be over so that I can start getting closer to my thin self again! And after all of my hard work, I will have my gorgeous body back and also this to be proud of:
Yippee! I absolutely love watching my beautiful little girls grow up! It is such a wonderful experience.
I am now working on Blaine's parents' Christmas present. I am making another album for them that has pages of their grandchildren, our family pictures, and a memorial page for Grandma Grantham. It is turning out great so far, and I have Blaine working on the most special part - Grandma's pages. I wanted to give him a project that he feels strongly about, so that is what I gave him. He is doing a wonderful job with the scrapbooking so far, and I am happy to have him working on his parents' present in addition to my efforts. I will have to take a picture of him working like I did last year! I will probably post some pictures of the album after I am done with the pages that we are working on.
I am happy to announce that my bedroom is almost completely spotless. When I walk across the room, I know that I won't step on anything. I can look around the room and see that almost nothing is out of place. My hallway, on the other hand, is a mess. I will have to clean that on Saturday morning, I think. I am just not in the mood to tackle it right now since I am working so hard on Christmas stuff and I just finished my bedroom. The girls also cleaned the living room and the family room the other day while I was working so hard on my bedroom. The house looks better than it has since we moved in, and I am extremely pleased. Cleaning up for Christmas Eve festivities at our house will not be hard at all.
I took the night off from breasfeeding since Thayana is having a hard time getting used to a bottle. That is a problem, and I intend to fix it. I don't want a breast-addicted baby if I decide to go somewhere without her. It is sort of flattering that she only wants my breasts, but she will have to learn differently. Of course, this means that I have to pump instead of the feeding, but oh well. At least I get to have a couple of drinks in the meantime. :-P
I am heading to Marrissa's in the morning to drop off her kids' presents and hang out for a few hours. Lindy and Jeniece have never met Claydon, and I want them to spend some time there also. I was going to ride with Blaine so that I can save some gas and then pick him up from work on the way home, but he was insistent that we didn't ride with him. He plans to do his Christmas shopping for me tomorrow after work with Sean, and he wants it to go his way. He was a pissy man tonight, that's for sure. I hope he doesn't come home like that tomorrow! I know that it was really not a big deal whether he rode with us or not, but since he was in a bad mood he couldn't see the logic in us all riding together and saving on gas. Stupid man. I didn't argue with him though - I get tired of being a nagging wife that he has to come home to. It just pisses me off that he can't compromise on this. In addition to that, he has no idea what to get me for Christmas even though I have pointed out several things that I wouldn't mind having AND I have an Amazon wish list. What. The. Heck. I will probably end up with jewelry (which is fine), but there are other things I wouldn't mind having like 2 GB compact flash cards and a new backdrop for my studio photography shots. Oh - and some nice perfume. He just doesn't pay attention to these things like I do. We will see how he does.
Yippee! I absolutely love watching my beautiful little girls grow up! It is such a wonderful experience.
I am now working on Blaine's parents' Christmas present. I am making another album for them that has pages of their grandchildren, our family pictures, and a memorial page for Grandma Grantham. It is turning out great so far, and I have Blaine working on the most special part - Grandma's pages. I wanted to give him a project that he feels strongly about, so that is what I gave him. He is doing a wonderful job with the scrapbooking so far, and I am happy to have him working on his parents' present in addition to my efforts. I will have to take a picture of him working like I did last year! I will probably post some pictures of the album after I am done with the pages that we are working on.
I am happy to announce that my bedroom is almost completely spotless. When I walk across the room, I know that I won't step on anything. I can look around the room and see that almost nothing is out of place. My hallway, on the other hand, is a mess. I will have to clean that on Saturday morning, I think. I am just not in the mood to tackle it right now since I am working so hard on Christmas stuff and I just finished my bedroom. The girls also cleaned the living room and the family room the other day while I was working so hard on my bedroom. The house looks better than it has since we moved in, and I am extremely pleased. Cleaning up for Christmas Eve festivities at our house will not be hard at all.
I took the night off from breasfeeding since Thayana is having a hard time getting used to a bottle. That is a problem, and I intend to fix it. I don't want a breast-addicted baby if I decide to go somewhere without her. It is sort of flattering that she only wants my breasts, but she will have to learn differently. Of course, this means that I have to pump instead of the feeding, but oh well. At least I get to have a couple of drinks in the meantime. :-P
I am heading to Marrissa's in the morning to drop off her kids' presents and hang out for a few hours. Lindy and Jeniece have never met Claydon, and I want them to spend some time there also. I was going to ride with Blaine so that I can save some gas and then pick him up from work on the way home, but he was insistent that we didn't ride with him. He plans to do his Christmas shopping for me tomorrow after work with Sean, and he wants it to go his way. He was a pissy man tonight, that's for sure. I hope he doesn't come home like that tomorrow! I know that it was really not a big deal whether he rode with us or not, but since he was in a bad mood he couldn't see the logic in us all riding together and saving on gas. Stupid man. I didn't argue with him though - I get tired of being a nagging wife that he has to come home to. It just pisses me off that he can't compromise on this. In addition to that, he has no idea what to get me for Christmas even though I have pointed out several things that I wouldn't mind having AND I have an Amazon wish list. What. The. Heck. I will probably end up with jewelry (which is fine), but there are other things I wouldn't mind having like 2 GB compact flash cards and a new backdrop for my studio photography shots. Oh - and some nice perfume. He just doesn't pay attention to these things like I do. We will see how he does.