December Twenty Third

What a fast day… and it does not feel like Christmas Eve will be tomorrow… at least not until 6pm when I get off work tomorrow… today I got to work at 6am and had to do the weekly shoe count… today was women’s… of course the hand held was not working for me… we opened at 7am… I finally finished at 9: 30am… went to lunch… and then opened boxes… which seemed more like an hour instead of three… I think I have finally arrived at the part of the mountain of boxes that was for black friday… so I’m not as caught up as I wanted to be by Christmas…

Got home, had something to eat and played frontierville on facebook all evening…

Son2 was finishing up his gift for his party and still needed to shower and was waiting for his laundry in the dryer… so he was an hour late getting to his party… another half hour before hubby goes to pick him up…

Here is the card he made in 3-D form from the video game Fallout…

The inside: he made a pocket for the money to go in…

Hubby finished son1’s girlfriend’s gifts from us… a very pink reindeer ornament, a pinecone ornament and a Hello Kitty candy… they are wrapped… but tomorrow I’m thinking son2 still has to help son1 finish wrapping… son1 should be done and on his way home from his last night at his part time job until he decides to maybe go back in the summer…

Hubby made pumpkin pies today… and son3 and I finished making our cards for each other, hubby and son1 and son2… we used lots of stickers… tomorrow I have to put the ham in before I go to work… and hubby and son3 are making cookies… for Santa…

Son1 just finished reading the Christmas story from the Children’s Bible to hubby and I…

And tomorrow we have to put out the stockings, write a note for Santa, put the family presents under the tree, the boys have a Christmas eve present to open, have ham for dinner and sleep…… so Santa can come…

Hubby is getting ready to pick up son2, son3 is off to watch Stuart Little 3 and I’m heading to jammies and finish Criminal Minds since I fell asleep last night and missed it…

Happy Journaling…

December Twenty Second

With all the rain we have been having, we have been having ants in the house… mainly the bathrooms… and the pet food… yesterday morning I awoke to a ton of ants in my bathroom and in Holly’s food… I was almost late to work by taking the time to divert their trails…

At work we were very messy on the sales floor but the stockroom was clean as they had hidden the messes for the visit… I spent the first four and a half hours stocking… went to lunch… wanted to continue stocking but we were busy with Christmas shoppers by then so spent the last three hours opening boxes… we waited and waited but the visitors never came… once home I got a message from the supervisor that they had cancelled…

Last night we took the boys to look at Christmas lights…

This is a house in our neighborhood that out does himself each year…

Lighted houses were few in our neighborhood so we went to the next town over where we know of a whole neighborhood that lights up… There was a line of cars when we got there…

This house had the lights timed to the music…

A robot Santa dancing like the Santas on Santa Clause 2…

There were many nativity scenes…

And a leg lamp from The Christmas Story; “you’ll shoot your eye out”…

When we got home, there was a huge box on the porch… Inside was a huge basket filled with lots of goodies all the way from Rhode Island… A wonderful Christmas surprise…

Even though I was very tired and looking forward to sleeping since I was off today… I stayed up til past eleven watching The Holiday… I love this movie… So cute…

Today hubby made cranberry orange pancakes for breakfast… very yummy… Son3 found many uses for the box from the gift basket today…  a shield for fighting the bad guys…

A foot rest while playing his video games…

And a table for making his Christmas cards… We didn’t finish our cards yet… I got grumpy… son2 wasn’t making cards but he got grumpy trying to figure out what to make his friend for the gift exchange tomorrow… he decided to give money and was going to use it to make an origami of some sort… but was not having the patience… hubby and I were trying to help him get ideas of what to make so I didn’t get the cards done that I am giving to the boys and hubby… then son2’s grumpiness passed off on to me… and then I realized it was past five and we were all hungry and I hadn’t figured out dinner yet… so hubby made breakfast for dinner again… he had gone to the grocery store today and we were going to make Chinese food but we will save that for New Year’s Eve instead… For Christmas Eve I am making a ham with all the fixings…

A couple of weeks ago hubby painted and sanded son3’s fort… I’d been meaning to share the picture… hubby is almost done making son1’s girlfriend some Christmas ornaments: pine cone and reindeer… guess he gave up on the origami too…

I did vacuum the house today and cleaned both bathrooms… washed all the rugs and towels… I have been putting a load in the wash every day after work to keep up on it since today and Christmas day are my days off this week…

I was a bit grumpy too this afternoon cause I think it is bugging me that I have to work 10-6 on Christmas Eve or actually that I have to work at all… the other two associates on my team that only got nine hours have today through Christmas Eve off… and the two seasonal associates on the sales side also have Christmas Eve off… The rest of us are working… I think everyone should have to work if only for three hours or so… just to be fair… and I know son1 has been working non stop for the last couple of months but now he has four days off from his full time job and I think tomorrow is his last day at his part time job… and the boys are off from school… and unfortunately hubby is off… why am I always working… oh yeah, I’m the Mom……..

This evening has gone fast… It’s already 8:30… Time to get ready for bed… and watch Criminal Minds from last week… Finishing up my hot chocolate… wonder what else we have in the form of chocolate…….

Happy Journaling…

December Twentieth

Only one more day til I get a day off… however tomorrow we have a visit just for shoes… hope they aren’t having any high expectations for their visit… cause we are a mess… missing displays, signing… tons of mismates… stocking needing to be done… lots of boxes still to open… maybe they will roll up their sleeves and lend a hand… HA… NOT… Today I scanned for missing shoe displays, stocked the sale tables, men’s work boots, women’s fashion boots, boy’s shoes, went to lunch, opened boxes… my back hurts…

Hubby is wearing his 24hr blood pressure check cuff today… he picked it up from Kaiser this morning and takes it back tomorrow… it goes off every twenty minutes… they say when he sleeps it only goes off every hour… we’ll see if it wakes him up tonight… he, son2 and son3 are watching Superman/Shazam cartoons… I’m making boneless chicken with onions, refried beans, cheese rice and corn for dinner… Son1 is off Christmas shopping for girlfriend… this may be his last week at part time job but he is not quitting just yet but taking a leave of absence in case they need him back within the next six months… they just have too many associates right now and son1 was getting burned out working both jobs… his newest plan for the fireman training is to go to city college to take the EMT class… can you just take one class in college… I’m thinking no… the advice given him was to take the class to help get in the training program quicker… his last resort is to join the military for fireman training… son2’s going to be doing his fireman training by time son1 sticks to a plan and that’s after son2 graduates high school and waits on the waiting list…

I need to clean the house… I come home from work, sit on the laptop, make dinner, watch TV and fall asleep… and it gets dark so early and it’s cold… just want to be comfy cozy… it’s still raining… supposed to rain til Christmas… 2011 will be here soon… resolutions to be made… lots of house cleaning then… find a job for hubby… maybe a new job for me if I become a supervisor… a whole new year full of new possibilities and adventures…

Dinner is almost ready and we are deciding which Christmas movie to watch… Polar Express probably…

Happy Journaling…

December Nineteenth

It’s raining! Been raining for three days… I love it! We had a big downpour about an hour ago… right after hubby got back from dropping son2 at his friend’s house… and son2 was going to walk… he and his friends finally exchanged names for their gift exchange on Thursday… now they just have to decide where to have it, who’s house…

I am so tired today… only two more days and a day off… I had to set the ad today, put up graphics, change out a sale table, and then I wanted to stock but ran out of time as it was time for lunch… after lunch opening boxes… tomorrow gotta change more sale tables, stock the work boots and open boxes…

I had planned to write an entry as soon as I got home but checked email, checked facebook but did not play frontierville yet… washed two loads of laundry… checked on hubby and son2 wrapping presents… ate lunch… now I have to get the bills ready for the mail tomorrow and hubby is making breakfast for dinner… son3 picked Home Alone 2 to watch tonight… heard from hubby that son1 said Tuesday is his last day at his part time job, but not sure if it is this Tuesday or next…

Hubby is calling everyone to eat… and I have been talking with son2 and hubby and not writing the entry… was going to save it and type more after dinner but will probably fall asleep on the couch again like last night…

Happy Journaling…