Snot and all

Don't you just love this title???
Today was great. I have been sick for the past 3 weeks or so. I have been coughing and that has pretty much been it. It turned into a respiratory infection. Now, I can't breathe. I think I have a sinus infection ontop of everything. YaH. Jeremy said he loved me snot and all. Here's what it would look like if someone were to pinch my nose......enjoy this pic

Wasn't that awesome great. Thought yall would enjoy that.
I didn't have to cook tonight or get dressed to even go get anything. We have this wonderful meat market in Malvern and Jeremy went there today and got a slab of ribs that had been smoked all day. Ahhh it was so wonderful. It's a good thing it isn't the new year yet. It won't go against my diet. Haha. I think I have gained like 10 pounds in the last week. Between those chocolate things Hila made and the crack cookies ( sand tarts y'all...those things are so good I swear the white powdered sugar on top is crack even though I have never had crack and never will...drugs are bad ...mmmkay? ) Jeremy's aunt made I think 10 pounds sounds about right. I have dusted off the ole AB lounger and will be getting on it in the mornings after the kids get on the bus. That is IF I don't fall asleep in it. Last year I was able to loose about 15 pounds in about 3 months. I didn't diet much, just exercised some. My goal this year is to loose about 25 pounds. mmmmmhuh. That's the plan. I gained it all back over this past summer. You wouldn't believe the strees it is planning a Summer Library Reading Program all by yourself. Lots of coke drinking and burger gulping to get that bad boy planned. This year is different. I have already got one person lined up...wooooohooo.

Christmas 2007 (week)

Well Christmas has been really wonderful this year. It has been so much less stressful than previous years. My Christmas tree was thrown together by my children this year. I threw some lights into the trees outside and rarely plugged them in. I guess I just didn't have the energy to walk 5 feet outside and plug them in. Next year there will be a timmer involved. We swapped names on my side of the family again this year. This made things a whole lot easier. On my husband's side, we just bought 1 gift for the kids...which there were 2. Yah! This means, less stress on Kristin and more shopping for the kids. My kids don't need a whole lot, but I guess every parent goes thru this wondering if their kids will get enough for Christmas. Every year I think....this is a lot of crap here. Where are we gonna put all of this.

OK. enough rambling ( I do this way too much). Oh by the way I fyou haven't noticed already, I can't spell worth a crap. This year, my sister decide to have Christmas at her house. She wanted everyone to come down on Chriatmas Eve and there she would fix a nice Christmas dinner. She lives in Lynn Haven, Florida which only takes me about 1 hour and 15 minutes to get there, so not too long. To be honest, I thought this was gonna suck! Growing up, our family has always had Christmas eve dinner at my Ninnie's (g-ma) house up until the last 8 years or so. My Papa died in 1998 of cancer and after his death, she decide she wasn't going to have anything at her house for Christmas. I guess it just wasn't the same and she was right. The past couple of years we have had Christmas Dinner at my Mother's house. Still, not the same, but I had gotten use to it. Getting to the point, Christmas went on reguardless of what I thought. It actually was pretty fun. We all brougt one side dish..I brought 2: mashed potatoes and gravy and a green bean casserole just in case your were wondering. We all had fun and laughed and talked about the good ole' days. haha. The best part of it all was what my brother-in-law's brother (Scott) got my(our) nephew. He bought Nathan a drum set. It was so awesome. Payback is great. My nephew is 2 by the way. We got there around 3:30 and stayed until around 7 pm due to the fact we had to get home and put out our Reindeer food in the front yard for rudolph. Apparently Rudolph gets hungry and needs snacks just like Santa does. Now, my neighbors think I am crazy. After the kids were in bed, Jeremy turns to me and says, "how are you gonna get up all those oats out of the front yard so that it appears that Rudolph ate his snack"? I was like.....ahhhh crap. Haha...a light bulb goes off in my head. I will get my cordless hand vac and go out there and suck it up. Picture this... you see a woman out in the middle of her yard in her pj's with a hand vac suckin up what looks like grass in the middle of the night. Yeah, my neighbors already think I'm the crazy lady on the block, and I am the youngest person on the street. Gotta love my life :)

Christmas morning was great. That day was soo busy. My living room was demolished and paper was everywhere. But, when is it not? I have 2 kids and a husband. Here is a pic pf the kids and the tree on Christmas morning. Notice the tree. Everything is just thrown on. They had fun and that is all that matters. I hope every Christmas is like 2007.