Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Merry Belated Christmas?!?

So this is my delayed Christmas post! Christmas was amazing this year. Although Connor doesn't fully get the concept, he definitely got the hang of opening presents! From the neighbourhood Christmas party I brought him to at the beginning of December it was evident that he was not a fan of Santa...no matter how positive we tried to portray Santa...he was just a scary fat man in a red suit that Connor would prefer to avoid at all costs. On the way down the stairs on Christmas morning we thought we would tell him that Santa had come with presents for him...the response was "No Santa, no presents" followed by extreme agitation and pointing back up the stairs. For a child that does not like "night, night" this was extreme! We told him it was ok and Santa wasn't there which did seem to provide him with a bit of relief. When we got to the bottom of the stairs and his tent with his new blanket and robot were there all set up he went flying to it without any of the previous hesitation. After spending a bit of time in there incredibly happy with the new find and reminding us on occasion "no Santa" we proceeded to the stocking. He thought that was pretty amazing as well and would pull one toy at a time out and squeal before moving to the next. After that we spent from 8:30am till about 3:30pm opening presents...each present had to be unwrapped, taken out of the box, fully assembled, looked over, and all buttons pushed before moving on to the next one. We did try and take breakfast and snack breaks, although they weren't tolerated for long! Here is the issue...take the two annoying Christmas kids from each house that took charge of wake up duty, put them in a house together and give them a toddler to spoil...it was bound to be a long haul of present openings! It was fantastic, but my husband was covered in paper cuts and gauges from all the toys he was made to assemble during the day! Those boxes are beyond child proof they're almost parent proof! You need scissors and knives to get at them...we are still recycling the boxes since we can only flatten and get so much in our bin every week! Hmmm...how do you know you went overboard??? Is it the excessive recycling or not being able to walk through the house without stepping on something for weeks (Don't worry, with working I enlisted the help of a cleaner that comes every two weeks so we don't live in a pig sty!)?!? So to sum up, Christmas with a two year old was amazing and rewarding and everything I had hoped it would be...and it was nice that my husband decided to do away with the budget and get me a Gucci watch!  ;-)

Friday, January 25, 2013

And yet another long blog break...

I think it was the last post I did that I apologized for the long absence and this has been even longer...I haven't even been able to read some of the blogs of the lovely ladies that read mine and who are anonymous so I can't even send them a quick email letting them know that I'm thinking of them!! All of us got the flu in November and it lasted four weeks...let me just say that having the flu is awful on a good day but having two babies (the little one and the 33 year old one), trying to not take too much time off work, and keep everyone fed is a mothers worst nightmare! LOL! It was bad, but not that bad! With being sick and then Christmas I just haven't had a minute to myself. So needless to say I have enough stories to post 20 blogs! My plan (fingers crossed) is to post a few short blogs so that they actually get finished!

I read a FB quote this morning that got me thinking about children and blogs...
"Before you were conceived, I wanted you.
Before you were born, I loved you.
Before you were here an hour, I would die for you.
This is the Miracle of Life"

Happy Friday and more posts about the turmoils of working motherhood to follow shortly!