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.