Busy as a Bee

Wow, the holidays are upon us. I'm excited to have so many fun things going on! I love staying busy and yet dread the stress of keeping up with it all. But even the stress is a little fun itself. Andrew is loving this season. He keeps asking for snow because he wants to build a tunnel in it and eat it. Mom is grossing out over that, but ah well, as long as it's not yellow we're all good. On an sadder note he keeps asking if we're ever going to move back to our house. This started because we went to our old neighborhood on Sunday and he saw our house. He knows other people live there but it's sad to hear him ask about it. This morning he tells me "We can't have Christmas in our apartment, it's not our home". Try explaining to a 4 year old that HOME is where we all are together, no matter where that is. He was asking why exactly it is that we moved... so I told him it's because Mommy had to go back to work and we had to move closer to his school. Then he tells me he wants me to work at Walton Centennial, the property I worked at right before AMLI, instead of where I work now. It took me a minute to figure out why he's saying that, and then it hit me... it's because we lived at our house when I worked for Walton, and now we don't and I work for AMLI. Damn he's smart. I tried to tell him one day Mommy would buy him a house again, but he doesn't believe me. I will though... so he should. And I may just let him pick it out if he's lucky. :)

So back to buzzing like bees. Andrew's birthday party is this weekend. It's hopefully going to be small and easy, but nothing ever stays small and easy with me.

Christmas parties and Birthday parties, get togethers and nights with friends. I love this time of year. I can probably say that about most times of year, except the dead middle of summer. There is just nothing really good about the dead middle of summer at all in my opinion. Yes, it's COLD now, but all the reason to snuggle in blankets and drink hot chocolate right??? Taking time from being so busy to relax and enjoy the season and good company.

There, that's my hallmark moment for the day. Hope you got a good visual. Lemme get back to some kind of work..........

All I want for Christmas...

I am blessed with the funniest and most clever kid! I adore the way he cracks me up daily. Andrew and I were sitting on the couch watching TV. I had let him stay up late because I felt like we haven't had a lot of just "us" time, so we were chatting about Christmas.



"What do you want for Christmas?" I ask him.

"I want what's in the trunk" He replies.... because he was with me when we bought some gifts the other day... smartass.

"Ok..well aside from that, what do you want from Santa?"

He thinks....

"I want a hundred bucks!" he declares.

"WOW! what do you want a hundred bucks for?"

He thinks again... then tells me "well, because that's a lot of money"

"Yes, it is a lot of money. What else do you want?" I reply.

He thinks, and thinks, and thinks...

Then he finally states:

"I want yarn."

after I compose myself from laughing like a banchee, I dare to ask him why.

"Well, because I don't have any yarn"



Later I call his dad. I tell him the story... but stop at the $100 request.

His dad says "I can do that! I'll get him $100!".

"Good!" I tell him, "because I'm getting him YARN!"

My Petri Dish Household or Bringing Sexy Back

We can't shake the sickies here in the Martinez/Harris Household. GRRRRRR. The 3 of us sound like we've smoked a pack a day since birth (poor Ryan!) and my little voice is all cracky and butch (apparently scratchy Demi Moore type butchiness is sexy??? why do we spend money on hot lingerie when we could just scream for 3 hours instead)

Either way, the noses are running, fevers are coming and going and throats are sore and swollen. oooooohhhh it sucks. I even ate chicken noodle soup today in case it would work, it didn't. So I ate ice cream, didn't work either. I can't eat anything else in hopes of finding a cure or I'll be sick, butch and chubby... probably not so sexy.

I attempted to take the boys to see Bee Movie today. HA, that was just the same joke as the last time I tried to take them to a movie. We get thru the waiting the in semi dark theater, eating thousands of dollars worth of crap, then we get thru the previews (at which point I kind of forget what we came to see), then we get thru about 45 minutes of the actual movie before we have to leave. Ah well, at least we got out of the house. It seemed cute. I'll just buy the damn DVD and go from there.

I am in search of a Christmas Tree. I don't have real ones although I'd love one. I just don't have the patience to pick up all the pine needles my kids will pick off of it, so I go artificial. I was sick of my tree last year (I'd had it for like 6 years) so I gave it away and now I need a new one. My apartment is teeeeeny so I need a proportional tree. I want to find a pencil tree, skinny and tall just to put in the corner. Looked a few places today but alas, my search continues.

I'll post some Thanksgiving pics tonight!