Hello. My name is procrastination.

Well ho-lee shit!

Where did the last two days go??

I said on Tuesday that I would be back on Wednesday and here it is Friday and I am just getting back here. What the hell?

Well, at least I came back.

Right?

Since you're here, we might as well look at more Christmas pictures.

For some reason I don't have any pictures of the boy opening his presents. (Can you say Mommy guilt?)

It must be because I was helping him to open his and he was flying through them at warp speed!

I'll have to stage some at a later date. *wink*

Here's the rest of the gang opening their loot.

My mom broke her popcorn bowl about a month ago. Since then, I have heard the heart-breaking story of it's demise too many times to count. We got her a stainless steel one as a replacement. Hopefully, she can't break it.


The Man got the Bourne Ultimatum on DVD. He's seen it 4 times in the theatre already. He's watched it twice since opening it on Christmas. I think he has a crush on Matt Damon.


My dad came for Christmas. The last time I had both my parents around at Christmas was 7 or 8 years ago. It was really nice to be all together. He took a lot of naps. I think we played him out.


J got a gift that she LOVED. She thinks it's from us. It's not but we're not going to tell her that.


The girl got a Princess dress up set from Grandpa. She was so excited. She had to put on some jewelery immediately and get a little sass on. Isn't she adorable?
No. That's not bias, it's obvious. Ha ha!
She was so happy that she was dancing without even realizing it.


Here are the Man and the boy constructing his triceratops skeleton. Very small pieces and a totally movable, fully jointed skeleton in the hands of a four year old makes for many opportunities to re-construct the skeleton. Ha ha!


My dad and the kids during their first attempt at putting the marble maze together.



Half an hour later . . . racing marbles! Way cool toy!


This is a game that has a skeleton that pops out and steals the gold coins you accumulate. You can see by the look on the Man's face that the anticipation is just as much fun.
Oooooohhhhh, scary skeleton.



As you can see, we had a great Christmas, lot's of laughs, lot's of presents and (too much) good food. I should have asked Santa for some bigger pants.

I have been trying to have this video play here but I don't know how to do it, so click on the following links to watch one of my favorite comedians. Totally cracks me up. He was friggin' hilarious. (Mitch Hedburg - RIP)

There are three parts and some over lap, but it's worth it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBiNriy87OA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VHMXG9XNoU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgt1jnkpe7E


Laugh . . . and think of me.

Later, y'all.

Ok, I'm a little tardy.

Can you believe that it's been 2 weeks since I updated my bloggity-blog-blog?

2 whole weeks.

Crazy, eh?

Well, it is Christmas Eve and surprisingly, I am ready~ish. Ha ha! More ready than I have ever been but still not totally ready. The boy and the girl have been in bed for an hour and a half and the boy is still wide awake. He keeps coming out to check on the carrot and banana that we left on the deck for the reindeer. Little known fact - reindeer prefer grapes but will eat bananas in a pinch. :)

Santa is having some homemade goodies and a glass of chocolate milk. Who knew he liked vico?!?

Almost a year ago, the Man and I spent a week in Sweden which ( I think) is the birthplace of Santa. We hung out with a Same (pronounced Saw Me) reindeer herder. She is the "chief" (they don't use that term) of her village and was very, very cool. Such an amazing woman. I really liked her. I'll post more about this at a later time and show you more of our pictures. She was getting close to retirement and had sold off the bulk of her herd but still kept a small herd of her favorite reindeer, her pets . . .

which we ate . . .


while they ate. Ha ha ha!

Reindeer is GOOD!

Since beginning this blog entry, the boy has decided that he is tired enough to go to sleep so I can get on with my final preparations with a little less risk of getting caught. There is still a risk as those two have a tendency to "tag team" me, y'know what I mean? One falls asleep, the other fights it until they can no longer keep their eyes open, finally falls asleep, there is about 10 minutes of silence which gives me a false sense of security and I start in on a task, try to take a nap, a shower, whatever and then the other one wakes up. This is one of the many reasons why I am not a napper.

In the spirit of the season, let's take a look at a photo of Christmas past . . .

The girl and the boy one year ago today.

She got that dress for her birthday and she was so in love with it. She called it her pwincess dwess. Aaaaawwwwww . . . too cute. She looks really different with hair, doesn't she.

I have a tendency to dress the boy by my interpretation of how men "dress up", which is mainly clean jeans, a button up shirt and a t-shirt, with a nice tight neck hem, underneath. Poor kid. He'll likely opt to dress himself as soon as he can.

Man, you don't realize how time really does fly until you have kids. *sniff*


It's time for me to sign off. The longer I am awake, the more calories I consume. I didn't do ANY baking until 2 days ago and I only made one batch of about 6 different things. I so don't need any extras around after tomorrow. Every time I walk by the goodies I have one. It's so sick. Seriously.




This is me after only 2 days of mindless snacking.

Ha ha ha! *Ack* I laughed and almost choked on my cheesecake square.



On that note, Merry Christmas everyone.

I'll make it a point to be back in less than 2 weeks!

We got elfed!

Here's a little Christmas cheer from my family to yours.

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1232899714

Who knew the man could dance? He has the best rack and some pretty sexy moves.

Gettin' down with his bad, elf self!


Now, go elf yourself!

Shopping maniacs

Well, we're back from the city. (Kristin, we weren't in the city that I think you were referring to or I totally would have went out with you!)

We got all of our shopping done for the kids and we didn't spend as much as we'd planned!

Can you believe that?

Me neither. (seriously!)

I actually had to add the receipts twice just to make sure.

We stayed with friends, which was really nice. (If you are reading this. . . thanks again!!) We ate at not-kid-friendly restaurants where there wasn't even a kids menu (!) and we shopped like maniacs. I have never been done my shopping this early before EVER. I may have to wait until early Christmas morning to wrap them just so I don't miss out on the annual adrenaline rush and panic attack. Sweaty pits and anxiety are as much a Christmas tradition to me as Egg Nog is to others. Ha ha!

3 days in the city was MORE than enough for me. I was happy to leave there and get back home. I really am a bush baby. It's just WAY too hectic for me. We were at Best Buy and the line up went from the check out all the way back to the door. It was December 1st! I could see that on Christmas Eve, but the 1st of December?!?! C'mon. It was so busy in the mall that the man actually passed on a Tim's because the line up was too long! This is a guy who will wait in line for shitty coffee! I had to check his pulse when he showed up empty handed.

I read somewhere that Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me) was doing another film called "What would Jesus buy?" I kept thinking about that all weekend. What would He buy? The man thinks He would buy a Wii. Ha ha. Or Frankincense and Myrrh. He'd probably have better luck finding Frankincense and Myrrh than a Wii!

The daughter-in-law of a friend went to her local Zeller's at 7:00am to get a Wii. Once there, she found out that there were only 10 Wii's available and you had to get a ticket to buy one. She got the 10th one and faced the wrath of those who didn't get one. Seriously. Adults calling each other names, swearing, etc., over a video game. 'Tis the season, right? At Wal-mart yesterday that announced over the intercom that there were 2 Wii's just delivered to the electronics dept. It was like a stampede. Of course, I was in the electronics dept at the time, looking for a tape deck. Yes, I said a tape deck. A ghetto-blaster. I got tapes to play, ok? A tape deck is almost as elusive as a Wii and twice as cool.

We also decided, on a whim, to go to a movie. It almost NEVER turns out well when we do that. The only movie we were on time for was Fred Claus. We paid $40.00 to see Fred Claus. Yep, we did. This movie is a $1.99 gallery rental movie, at best, and even then I think I would have felt ripped off. There were parts of the movie where I felt embarrassed for Vince Vaughn. Seriously embarrassed. You have been warned. It's only redeeming quality was the music. It would actually be a good Christmas album to have. You can't go wrong with "Ludacristmas" Christmas rap.

I'm trying to get in the Christmas spirit, so I thought I'd share some pictures from Christmas past.

Christmas 2005

Christmas 2006

Ha ha. I can't remember what book he's looking at here, I think it was one of mom's gifts. You can't see it in the picture, but he had a big wooly scarf tucked in his shirt like an ascot. It's silly, and it makes me laugh. I'm sure he'll laugh when he sees it on here too. Right, honey?!?


This is worth a giggle too.


The countdown to Christmas had begun!