Christmas Season

It's been a hectic month because it is a hectic month for everyone. I really tried hard to bring more meaning into the season with a kids advent book we did everyday, talking about what Christmas is all about and stuff like that. We also went to the Nutcracker tea, saw Santa, enjoyed a snow day, Nora had a recital, we saw some lights and had some fun!

Then we enjoyed christmas morning. Holiday fun!

The Nutcracker tea!

All the cuties at the nutcracker tea.

Another visit with Santa. Can't see the big man too many times in one season :)

After nora's school performance two fun visitors came. 

Nora, Bridget and Nora's teacher- Mrs. Ross. We love her!

Tap Dancer Nora!

Snow day sillies.

Reindeer food we can't forget about their important job.

Cookies for the big man.

Christmas morning!

Happy birthday Jesus! Birthday cinnamon rolls on Chrismas morning.

Happy New Year!

We hung with friends, i stole nora to play with nora and have a sleepover, we ate, drank and i fell off a chair. I didnt drink too much i swear- im just a klutz.

Annnnnyyywhooooo----

New year. New starts. New adventures. 

A year in review:

- this was my first year in 5 not pregnant or breast-feeding for a full year. Weird. Kind of bittersweet and also refreshing.

- b is fully potty-trained aka we have no diapers in this house!

- nora is in her last year of preschool (say what?!?) and bridget is in her first year.

- we went to florida to see g-ram and ron and to disney world, to denver, a couple chicago trips, green bay and me mich and mold had our annual girls trip in baltimore to celebrate the birth of mollys son patrick.

- p turned 40 and me and meghan threw him a surprise party that he was actually surprised at.

- i started ramping up my business and am continuing to stay busy in the start of 2014

- my sis found out she is having a girl and i cannot express how freaking excited i am!!

Yay to the new year and the adventures it will bring. 

And now for my advice of 2014:

- be present (get off the freaking iphone)

- be real.

- as my pop pop says- everything in moderation

- and my fav...when you are tired- work out. When you dont want to- work out. When you want to lay on the couch and eat chips- work out. (And then lay) just move- you will be glad you did.

Loves to 2014!

Road trip

Took a road trip to Green Bay for the holidays! We left at 4am and got in around 4:30pm. We took our time and stopped a few times. The kids did great- thanks McDonalds play area!

Happy face train

We took out annual trip to the happy face train and a visit with santa (i think our 5th of the season) cant get enough of santa! Good times at pretty union station. While i had to scrape up change in my car to pay for parking and pull over on southwest blvd to let bridge take a number 2- we always love a fun trip 'downtown'

Marketing

I love clever marketing. I love clever advertising and cute jingles. I still sing i am stuck on bandaid brand because band aids stuck on me randomly.

Anywho- so it was tres hilarious today when i put new toliet paper in the bathroom and nora says:

"Is this charmin ultra strong?"

"No," i say 'its angel soft'

"Oh. Well you know charmin is so strong it can hold money?"

Omg. At least it was a toliet paper commercial brainwashing her (for now) and not the latest bigest my little pony petshop mega castle supreme.

Black Friday

No posting lately because i am drowning with p traveling and trying to keep up with the holiday traditions, shopping, light sight-seeing, trying to keep the focus on the advent season since like it is the reason for it all- oh and moving the dang elf. And trying not to overeat. And work it off when i do. But im not overeating bc of yummy food- more stress related. Or bc i forget to eat lunch so my dinner is half a pizza (and my kids slices)

*sigh*

Oh and i am busy dealing with shut the front door. You can ask me what that means and ill tell you.

And i sometimes leave messages on my husbands phone like 'you owe me huge' and 'im not lifting a finger this weekend' 

Perhaps i am busy staring at the ceiling after i fiiiiinally get bridget to bed after her game playing. Yes- i lock her in.

And busy making to do lists and checking them twice.

And busy figuring out how to buy a new car since now my back door handle is broken, my key clicker thing doesnt work, and it has 116,000 miles on it.

So yeah. Busy. I sound like a wreck. I am kind of.

But dont worry- my bathrooms are clean. Come on over. You wont find grime on my toliet seat. And i caught up on the horrifying real housewives on beverly hills. scary ladies. I cringe how women are. But maybe i need to practice wicker. Hmmmm

Oh wait- this post was called black friday. I was in a tangent. So i should talk about thanksgiving- and i will but enjoy a few pics of two of my favs and i having a silly good time on black friday (dont worry we enjoyed family time first and did not swarm the min the shops open bc i am auper against 5pm openings)

Ta-wiiiiiins!

Nora insisted on wearing the same pjs as bridge. I feel like they are looking so old! Ah! Oh and i seashelled their hair. It was my signature style for all the little girls i babysat for back in the day (which were only a few since i babysat mostly boys!) but those girls rocked the seashell so lindsey 2.0 busted a move this evening. 

Ps- i dont know why the blog is posting pics this way! Annooooying. Whatev. Too much else to deal with than moving pics around. :) deal. (Tho i admit it bugs me)