Holiday Survival 101

Hello all... so I've lapsed a bit on the ole' blog end of things. My bad.

Christmas was great! We had such a good time and both the kids were so excited. Especially the little miss. 'Santa' rang her on my mobile and I thought she was going to take off like a rocket! Her entire body was just buzzing and it looked like she would eat her hand. I asked her how in the world he could have known my mobile number, cuz I hadn't sent it to him and her answer was "cuz he's magic MOM". I'm sure you can pick up the hint of 'duh' she had in her voice.

She was REALLY excited about Christmas and the small fella was pretty hyper too, although I think he was just feeding off his big sister. Next year he'll definitely get it and the two of them will be unstoppable! He did love being handed prezzies though... :) Every time he was given one he would say "a pressen fa'me?!?" Too cute.

We grown-ups did our regular 'ridiculous budget' for Christmas. I always love doing that! This year we each had was 18.50 to spend. It's always so fun to try and get genuinely thoughtful presents. He definitely won this year... one of his gifts even made me cry.

After the tornado of wrapping paper and ludicrous amounts of packaging on the kid's stuff, we headed to the beach where my incredibly brave husband swam in the ocean. A lot of people do a Christmas day swim and raise money for the charity of their choice. He did his for 'Simon' which helps the homeless. He ran in and actually dove under, then started heading out... and then, out of sheer delirium, he WENT BACK IN! I've got pix, but I'll have to post them next time... the camera is M.I.A.

After the swim we headed to the 'outlaws' and had a great Christmas day and dinner. Yum, yum, yummy! Nana and Grandad had loads of fun and of course the kids made out like bandits... AGAIN. I proceeded to get drunk with my ma'in'law and ALLEGEDLY spoke to a good friend of mine... I'm still not convinced, because I remember talking with my sister which took place AFTER my alleged conversation. Anywho... it's been a while since I partook so much, so who knows what my brain was doin'! Thank goodness there's was no severe aftermath. I woke up just like normal the next day... to everyone's AMAZEMENT! :)

New Year's Eve was pretty mellow. We were invited to a party, but being the parents of two young children really takes all the drive to 'PAR-TAY' out of ya. Instead we went on a date and the kids stayed with the grandparents. Dinner and a movie was our plan, but unfortunately there were no showings after 7pm, so we came home and had a beer. It was good to be able to ring in the New Year, lay a big ole' smacker on my man and then simply walk upstairs for a good night sleep. It was SO NICE to sleep without one of the smallies coming into the bed! Happy New Year indeed!

Since then, it's been life as usual... well, considering our life is nothing but. I went back to work the 2nd and immediately began the job search. School started back up this past Monday and of course the small fella went back to 'Daycare Nana' when the other two started back up at school. We're hoping playschool will have an opening soon, cuz 'Daycare Nana' needs a little break from the little Tasmanian Devil! :)

We got contracts for the house and we're gathering all the pieces in order to close things up. We'll either be closing the last week of January (when I'm in Cali) or the last week of February. Either way is fine with me. It's ours and I'm just so incredibly grateful to be able to say that... one more month isn't going to make much of a difference.

Hope everyone had a great holiday season... and in case you didn't get an e-mail or text, here's hoping last year's best is this year's worst!

(now that I'm back to regular life time, more blogs and pix to come soon... sorry it took so long this time...)