Santa Baby, put a present under the……me

O Tannenbaum

Oh Madge, Madge….I could easily create a myriad of Christmas songs in your honor after seeing this little ditty of an outfit.  I’m so disappointed….I’m going to burn my fingerless lace gloves and banana clips!  How could you?!?!

In the words of John Denver…

“I’m leaving on a jet plane!”

I’m off to FL for the weekend for a teacher-type conference.  Looking forward to sun & fun, though the majority of the time will be spent in a hotel conference room in freezing cold air conditioning, I’m sure.  I will be baby & husband free, so I hope to catch up on my blogging!  Certainly I am due for a “Do, Dump or Marry” World War Two edition!!

Miss me! Mwah!

Why I love someone I’ve never met….

Because I just had Josie’s first Halloween where she gets it, and Dooce understands.  The sugar high was painful.

Because I have a challenging daughter who does not do well with time change (aka: she’s wakes at 6am and think it’s time to get up…umm, no.)

And because she sums up what I feel about our current election; I hope that by the time my daughter can understand frustration at the status quo, there may not be one. I have hoped for so long that actual equality is possible and now…now?  I have hope.  As a history teacher, I spend so much time talking about war, oppressions, genocide, human rights violations, injustice and wrongdoers that it frequently leaves me feeling empty and hopeless.  I have to work.  HARD (and drink a lot) to continue to put the pains I teach about behind me and hope that eventually we, as a human race, can do something good, even great.  And I think America did.  As one of my good friends said; I’m an “Obama Momma.”

Please read and cry like I did…or at least whimper.

Overheard

“Mommy!!  The! Snow! Is! Gone!”

“Yes Josie, it melted.”

Breaking into tears “but Santa is coming!!!”

“Josie, Santa will not be here for another few months.”

“Well, I will have to buy my own presents.”

Missed you!

So sorry Internet.  It’s been awhile, I know.  I am your neglectful friend who only calls when they want something.  My bad.  After the apology comes the lame excuse: I’ve been busy, blah, blah, blah. 

So, what HAVE you been up to, you ask?  (probably not, but let’s pretend you did or else I would have nothing to write about.) The past few weekends have been busy so I’ll summarize with pics:

Weekend #1

Baby Shower Awesomeness

  

Baby Shower After-Party Awesomeness

Weekend #2

Tee-Pee Construction & Bedroom Remodel

 

 

Her own space

 Weekend #3

Club Seats at the Pats/Rams game

Look! No child!

 

I have yet to upload pictures from Halloween but fear not……they’re coming!