December Eleventh

Today was a nice quiet day… Didn’t get much done… although I’m tired… even got to sleep in… Getting ready to have some chicken soup I made with corn bread… and watching Shrek Forever After…

I straightened up the house a bit… laundry… and put up some Christmas decorations inside… need to take more pictures outside as hubby added a bit more… the tree is almost done being decorated… one more box of ornaments, the skirt and the angel… hubby raked all the leaves up in the front yard… tomorrow need to read a book and work on the mission report with son3 after work…

Today son2 played XBox all day… and son3 played Playstation 2 all day… son1 worked his full time job today and didn’t find the part for his jeep so had to order it online… he is using one of our cars for work til the part comes… hubby has a doctor appointment on Tuesday for usual blood pressure check so he will have to get up very early to take me to work so he can use the van since son1 will have the car… now girlfriend has picked him up and they are off to have dinner with friends…

Dinner is ready… off to watch Shrek…

Happy Journaling…

December Tenth

Waiting for the turkey burgers to finish cooking… also having curly fries… a hot dog too if you are still hungry… some beans and chips… son3 finished off the lasagna as he didn’t want a turkey burger…

We have Big Bang Theory, William Shatner, F Troop, Smallville and Supernatural to watch tonight… and if hubby and I can stay awake we have CSI too… Shrek Forever After comes from Netflix tomorrow…

Son1 is replacing the starter in girlfriend’s car… he didn’t have to go into his part time job tonight… and he needs to replace some ball bearings for a pulley in his Jeep…

Son2 is playing XBox…

Son3 is eating dinner and watching Simpsons… he wanted to go to a friend’s party tonight but we had to say no as he didn’t get an invitation but kind of invited himself, plus it was a sleepover but he was only going for the evening as the actual bday party part is tomorrow and he doesn’t have a gift… plus this was a friend that he had an altercation with last month that they ended up in the principal’s office…

he’s moved on now from being mad and is climbing up and down ladders while hubby is putting Christmas ornaments on the tree… hubby broke two ornaments today while decorating the tree… I put ornaments on the tree on Wednesday…

I have been busy at work this week, not with customers but getting all the shoes ready for them… I got in over 20,000 steps today… 10,000 of them were by lunch, 17,000 of them before we walked to pick up son3…

I have lots to do tomorrow on my day off… clearing off the kitchen table and island, mission project with son3, putting away all the laundry I did this week, mailing out the birthday/anniversary cards for the month, to start the list……

Dinner is ready……

Happy Journaling…

December Ninth

 

I originally started this entry on December First and now here it is December Ninth already… Son3 did not have any homework today so taking a minute to catch up… December so far is a roller coaster of a month… Hubby and I are all over the place with our emotions during his job hunting… We continually have new places to apply at and new plans of applying but no call backs yet… With it getting dark at 5pm and all the Christmas sentiments this month I was in a slump up til Saturday, so wasn’t really in a mood for writing… And now since I have been feeling better I have been a busy bee getting caught up with everything so run out of time in the day for writing…

On Saturday I decided to put the new mattress cover that I purchased with my winnings from CVS.com on the bed… But I got a bit carried away and took the bed apart…

Vacuuming under it, washing all the bedding and skirt… and dusting the headboard…

New mattress pad…

All clean bedding and hubby put up Christmas decorations…

I also put some pillow cases up temporarily in the kitchen til I find some curtains I like as I want hubby to take down the blinds as they are very dirty and hang crooked…

We can’t believe how colorful all the trees are this year… usually all the trees start to change but then the leaves fall so quickly… but this year the leaves are staying on longer and showing off all their colors…

These pictures are from our backyard…

I’ve also been stressing myself out with thoughts of changing my job at my work… I still keep going back and forth on whether I should go work in the next town for my friend who is still in need of a lead… but then I feel I would be doing it for her and not me… It’s a way smaller store… and farther to travel… and getting used to being a lead and learning a whole new store… So I silenced my mind back to my original plan of posting for the shoe lead position if my supervisor gets the position she applied for… however I also heard that our signing lead wants shoes… so I also wouldn’t mind having the signing lead position as it is more similar to the last lead position I had… but nothing will happen til January so back to concentrating on getting hubby a job…

All of the Christmas shopping is done… we did very good only getting gifts for the boys and sticking to our plan… Hubby has put up all the Christmas decorations… should have the tree finished decorated by this weekend… The Christmas cards are done and going out in the mail tomorrow…

Son3 and I are almost done with his mission project… have two more paragraphs to write this weekend, find a few more pictures… they only have one more week of school… then on Christmas break we will type up all the paragraphs, color pictures and put everything on the board… the board is due Jan. 14th… next Wednesday his class is going on a field trip to see the new Narnia movie…

Miss Holly in the backyard… she does not like this wet cold weather we have been having… she wants to be able to sit outside sunning and bird watching… I am loving the rain and cold weather just not the darkness so early…

We watched Eclipse, The Sorcerers Apprentice, How to Train Your Dragon and Ice Age 3 this week… We just finished watching F Troop and having dinner… Hubby is cleaning up the kitchen… we have an agreement that until he gets a job his chore is dishes… Son2 has been watching all the animated Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes online on Netflix… Now the boys are getting ready for bed and school… Bones, Fringe, Big Bang Theory, William Shatner and CSI all come on tonight… Hubby and I started watching Hogfather last night but we fell asleep… Time to clean up so I can watch the shows….

Happy Journaling…