11.29.2005 at 10:18 am
before her
this past week of my life was spent shopping, playing with janie, going out with chris, cleaning and rearranging the house, decorating for Christmas, and spending time with friends.
IT WAS WONDERFUL!
chris was off from work for FOUR ENTIRE DAYS IN A ROW! i'm not sure that has ever happened before...save for when he's between jobs...and that's never fun...
i finished up most of our Christmas shopping over the thanksgiving break, but BEFORE thanksgiving day. i'm not one to go shopping on black friday. running through the front doors of wal-mart at five o'clock in the morning and diving into a pile of people then fighting tooth and nail over a pixel chix is NOT my idea of a enjoyable shopping experience. but there are those who thrive on it. i just don't understand. to each his own, i guess.
janie was an absolute angel over thanksgiving. i couldn't have asked for a sweeter child (note to self: remember this tonight when she is throwing her spaghetti on the carpet after she has used the sauce as hair-gel while screaming � or singing...sometimes i can't tell � at the top of her lungs because, well, just because.) she's started talking more and more lately. her toddler vocabulary now includes...
shoos -- shoes
titty-titty -- kitty kitty
nooooo -- no
jooooce -- juice
these are the words that she says SO PRECIOUSLY! she's getting better and better at talking. she's even speaking in whole sentences now, but only at random intervals. we can hardly ever get her to say what we want her to say when we want her to say it. she gets shy around groups of people. but every now and then, she will walk up to me and say something that i doubt i will ever be able to understand, but it is like music to my ears. simply beautiful...
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s p e n d i n g t i m e w i t h f r i e n d s
since chris had so many days OFF IN A ROW for thanksgiving, we decided to get a sitter TWICE IN A ROW! don't worry, it was my 1st cousin who loves janie almost as much as i do and she needs the money. we went to my best friend's house on friday night. sometimes, sitting outside around a fire and roasting marsh mallows is SO MUCH FRIGGIN' FUN! on saturday night we went to another friend's house and played cards until about eleven o'clock or so. we learned a new game called 2-22 red which turned out to be easier and more entertaining than i thought it would be at first.
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d e c o r a t i n g f o r C h r i s t m a s
i spent the monday before thanksgiving cleaning house in preparation for the annual decorating of the Christmas tree which we try to do the day after thanksgiving. on friday morning, chris and i moved our kitchen table (which i loathe) to his new office (the room that use to have the deep-freeze in it) so that he would have a desk. this made room for our Christmas tree. i ADORE decorating for Christmas...it's the taking all the crap down after Christmas that i disgust.
this year is going to be so much fun with janie! i can hardly wait this year! i haven't felt like this about the holidays since i was a teenager. it amazes me everyday how much janie has changed my life. not only my life, but my perception on life.
and now, i realize...my life totally sucked before her.
xoxo
tell me i'm beautiful...
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