Time off

I am sitting here in a quiet house listening to the furnace kick on and the occassional needle tapping of snow and ice on the window. Tonight I am alone in my house without the worry of listening for my little girl in the next room but really I am worrying still that she will have a restful night sleep away from me. As often my feeling is when we are away from each other.

I have been off work since last Tuesday and it feels as if I am stuck in some sort of time wrap or twlight zone, being off work and restricted timelines has really messed up my sleep pattern and made me eat far to many holiday cookies than I care to admit. My days are bunched together and the impending arrival of 2009 is upon us, I think in 2 days. Whatever the day I am enjoying the time with my daughter, to wake later than normal and snuggle in bed longer than we need to only to read the 12 childrens books that clutter my nightstand. We eat potatoe chips for breakfast and skip lunch to play with playdoh. Despite the slight fever she had on Friday night and cough the last 3 nights we are in good health and are more than happy.

Our Christmas was met with lots of shared time with family and friends. Morgan enjoyed her first Christmas Eve service at church especially the candle lighting her eyes were a gleem to get to hold her own candle and as she sat in my lap the warmth of the candle felt like God giving us a hug.

Time has really flown by this year and next year is going to bring change, alot of change, so much change that I am excited and scared to death all at the same time! Before that change comes I will continue to move along day to day with faith in the future.

With that I leave you with some holiday photos of JOY, PEACE & LOVE of the season.

If you don't know boogers, you won't understand.

Morgan has taken a liking to blowing her nose, which is great cause hey get those germs out of there so we don't have to go to the doctors office. But the nose blowing has turned into this sort of fascination of what happens to bodily fluids that have mutated in your body. This morning as we snuggled in bed not wanting to get out of our pajamas and ready to jump into our morning routine. Morgan looks over to me and says "mom get me napkin my nose", noticing she sounded congested sounded like a good idea. I get out of bed and grab her a tissue, which I know your saying why do you let her boss you around like that, and my answer to you would be because I don't need a 40 foot trail of toilet paper from the bathroom to my bed, I am on a tight budget. As I handed her the tissue she started to blow away, I proceed to change into my work ensemble. Blowing as hard as she could she was successful in recovering what she calls, a "big juicy worm". "See that Mommy?" "See that big juicy worm?" yes I may have caused this reference of a booger as a juicy one but she added worm. She then begins to examine it in the tissue and the look on her face was of pure disgust and I couldn't help but turn away and laugh. Because if she thinks worms are up there and she wants to blow them out, this means less digging for me.
This is what my blog has turned into a head full of congested thoughts, or dinner for a sucker fish!

All that is Slippery and Bright

Look what the cat dragged in......ME! Wow am I glad to be at work well not really but I am in a safe place and so is Morgan. The roads were one big slippery mess this morning after an all day rain yesterday, dropping temperatures and all that water, YUCK! I was kinda hoping it was going to be snow and blanket all the beautiful Christmas decorations. I love to see the lights warm the snow and peek just a bit it brings a warmth to the heart.
Speaking of Christmas lights, Morgan can not get enough of them. The other night when we left my in-laws house after celebrating my sister in-laws birthday(shout out Jen! wOOt,wOOt, your older than me for another 23 days), Morgan yelled the whole way out of the subdivision OH!MY.GOODNESS., look at these Christmas lights MOMMIE!! over and over again. It was so cute to hear her tiny voice get so excited.
Tonight Morgan is going to sit on Chris Kringle's lap, I have been teaching her how to shake hands and say nice to meet you. She has got it down so far, we'll she how she does when put in front of the big guy. I asked her what she wants for Christmas and she says presents, in a whispered voice. I told her Santa is going to ask you what you want and you have to tell him what kind of presents, and she just says a BLUE one! I don't think it is to late to teach her Mommy wants a date for and for me to stop picking my nose!!
Hope you enjoy the new header on top created last night, after downloading some pictures from over a month ago. So you can expect some more pictures soon, after I get off Facebook my new obsession. If you have an account come be my friend or poke me! Can you believe there are people on there that remember me when I was 12?? crazy, I KNOW! so glad braces took care of the buck teeth.

Individualistic

When a person becomes a parent everyone around adorns them with sweetness, the sound of birds chirping freely, the sun shining brightly, and promise of wonderful joys a child can bring. Well what they really fail to mention is that overly joyful spirit lasts a brief 23 months, just when you think it is ok to turn off the baby monitor because finally a full 8 hours of sleep, BAM whether you like it or not that baby is 2! And with 2 brings independence and a self controlled no matter how many times you repeat yourself toddler who will beat you down mentally and physically! If you have ever considered becoming a parent I suggest you borrow one at this age to get the full effect of what you will believe eventually at some point, make you drink, lock yourself in a closet, drive around the block with the radio full blast, or run for the hills without looking back.

The day and the life of a two year old is exhausting. If you are reading this while pregnant for the first time and you are at the point of no return consider this your warning, stock up on adult beverages, ear plugs, or go back to school and learn how to manipulate a small persons mind(no offense to those who are below 4ft). The skills of a toddler are much more advanced than we give them credit for, such as turning off the lights in the house for the evening you must include your toddler if you know what is good for you, because if you don't let them help a tantrum of earth shaking decibels will ensue, and you will find yourself turning the lights back on just so you can turn them off again with a small persons help. Don't get me wrong I am all for the independent self-supporting child if they could only get up on the toilet by themselves. If it is imperative that your little one wants to zip up their pajamas by all means pull up a seat or get a good book this one takes at least ten minutes and a couple melt downs in between before final success I DID IT happy dance eruption, you have plenty of time to think of which booty shaking move you can end the event with because self-esteem building is the key to getting it done quicker the next time and humor of your antics will no doubt be what they are zipping up their pajamas for anyhow.
Do not expect your toddler to like picture taking MORE at the age of 2 if they never really liked it at age 1. You can not entice a toddler with a sucker and promise them the sucker in return of a pose in front of a Christmas tree, because even though they fully understand the word sit down, look over here, and smile. They will run around screaming in the house my sucker, my sucker as if their life was dependent on it, like a junkie on crack. So you give in...OK I will give you the sucker if you sit here in front of the tree and take a damn picture. If you think it will get you the picture of advertising dreams you are mistaken, what you will get is a smart ass 2 year old who is happy to have a sucker and will not LOOK at the camera even if you tell her monkeys are flying out of your butt.
The spirit of Christmas will be spoken with this picture from us this year, hope you enjoy.

Gift Giving

Hey there remember me, sorry to treat all 2 of my blog followers like I do my checkbook. I ignore it but I know just where it is, I have a boat load of receipts(ideas of writing) to apply to the balance it says I have and actually don't, I noticed the only thing I really have used the checkbook for lately is that handy little calendar on the back, which by the end of this month I am totally screwed because hey 2008 will end and that is the last of 3 years that tiny piece of paper can hold!!
I am ignoring the fact that it will be Christmas in 23 days not that I don't want to celebrate the birth of Jesus, because I can rock an awesome birthday.....Yo Jesus I still have the Sponge Bob bounce house in my basement, and Morgan has perfected the happy birthday song, so we got you covered. It is the other part of Christmas, the retail part, the part where you feel obligated to purchase gifts for loved ones. Don't get me wrong I love giving and wish I could give to all, but I am strapped this year. Are there any ideas out there for simple, cheap gift giving ideas to please the masses?? In my family we are only buying for the kids because really the gifts are about the kids I think, but when I only have one and have to purchase for seven I get hives and that tight pinch in my stomach. I love the holiday and being able to see everyone and eat festive food but I just can't seem to get my head in the game this year.
Tonight I plan to get my girl dressed up, perhaps I will too and we can get some pictures in front of the Christmas tree that we put up on Thanksgiving. Hopefully we can get a good shot for our Christmas cards and maybe one to give to as a gift, grandparents like that stuff.