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(One of few bright spots of my weekend. Gasped when I saw this walking out of Walgreens)

I’m still out here.  How’s that for a blogging tip to blog regularly and then I take off  for a week?  Murphy’s Law I guess.

• So I think the seasonal blues I get have somewhat descended.  I just, ugh. I hate winter.  I long for the days in the sun.  I nearly stopped my car on the way home from work today and just sat in the sun on the side of the road.
• Somewhat related, I was nothing but cranky pants all weekend.  I could feel myself lashing out and hating it AS I WAS DOING IT but couldn’t stop myself.
• Not to mention, we’ve had some family stuff come up and it can be emotionally exhausting at times.
• Also, this weekend I was physically EXHAUSTED.  Our entire household was in bed at 8pm Saturday night.  Even before bedtime, I couldn’t even keep my eyes open and was laid out on the couch in Scott’s lap while he played Call of Duty.  Not. normal.  I have a bit of a cold today so maybe I was trying (and failing) to fight that off.
• Other than that, I’ve been busy sneaking in Christmas shopping, reading the Bible (Day 8  today for me!) and meeting friends for the holidays in any time I would normally blog.

I know that was a lot of downer but I promise I’m ok.  Just didn’t want to blog when I was in such a horrid mood.  I will try to get back to our regularly scheduled program here!

So I took back 4 of the 6 pairs of boots I bought on Black Friday.  Five of them were wrapped and waiting for Christmas as of this morning. 

I’m  posting this explanation with both hesitation and humility.  I don’t want my family and friends I’m buying Christmas for to hear this and feel like I’m begrudging gift-giving or we don’t have the money for it.  I’ve had a blast picking out gifts this year.  Also, as always, I also don’t want you to think I want a pat on the back for this.  I just need to get an explanation out there to the people that are physically around me why I’m not wearing fifty eleven different pairs of boots all winter.  And since I made a big deal about getting the things, I kind of have to make a big deal about getting rid of them.  Such is the blogging life.  Also, I know I had fifty eleven options on how to get rid of these (Sisterhood of the Traveling Boots, anyone?) but in this case, I felt like the right thing was just to return them.  So if you’d like to hear me ramble a bit more about all this, here is 2 minutes and 51 seconds more!

Friday

• Lexi had a birthday party so the rest of us went to Moe’s.  Welcome to Moe’s!  Some of my favorite words!
• The girls spent the night with Scott’s parents and Scott and I played video games and read.  Wild and crazy I tell ya.  I actually read Jon Acuff’s new book Gazelles, Baby Steps and 37 Other Things Dave Ramsey Taught Me About Debt.  If you are a Dave Ramsey-er it’s a must read.  The Free Spirit and Nerd Scorecards chapters were worth the entire book.  For the record, I’m a certified Nerd.  But we knew that.

Saturday

• Scott and I did some major Christmas shopping at Target.  Scott is the best at this.  Give him a name, point him in the direction of a department with a budget and he’s locked and loaded, ready to demolish our Christmas list.  It’s fantastic for this indecisive shopper that’s been shopping for 2 months.
• From there, we ran an errand for the church’s Christmas Boutique happening next week.
• The kids were just getting done with the Christmas parade in town so we fought the very congested traffic and managed to make the transfer.
• Saturday afternoon was spent wrapping all the presents we bought.  I would like to state for the record that Scott only wrapped 2 presents this year.  One of mine and our dog’s.  I’m not bitter or anything.  Curious though, who does the wrapping in your house?
• Saturday night we had Jaynee’s annual White Elephant Exchange so the kids headed off with Mom and Dad to their Christmas play.  Scott and I had a great time and walked away with reusable Barbie bags which the girls have LOVED toting around.  I have to mention the girls wore their Christmas dresses for the first time of the season and we made a quick stop at Wal-Mart to get them some hose.  It’s the first time we didn’t get white or black tights but got them nude hose.  They couldn’t decide if they were professional dancers or ice skaters.  I think in the video below they had decided they were headed for RiverDance.  In any case, I’m pretty sure Emma would be ok with wearing a pair every day.  Which, funny enough, would put her in good company with my Grandma whom I have never seen without a pair of pantyhose on.  Who also, God love her (as she would say), called and told me she was shopping at Toys For Us for the kids on Saturday.

Sunday

• We were all exhausted Sunday morning so we didn’t make it to the early service for church.  After that, we had lunch with his parents and then Scott spent the afternoon riding his bike while the girls and I played Barbies.  I had forgotten how fun it is to play with Barbie hair.  I gave at least 6 Barbies hair makeovers.  The kids are all, “Woooowww, her hair looks so much better.”  Yes, better than that awful nest it was before.
• Sunday evening I had a coffee date planned with Becky.  We had rescheduled the date about fifty eleven times (yes, that’s a number) and so I kept it while Scott took the girls to our old church’s cantata.

So that was our weekend.  We have a busy week ahead of us.  I’m helping at the Operation Christmas Child processing center tonight, having coffee with Melissa, holding a Mary Kay party and then helping out with the Christmas Boutique at church Saturday.  Whew!  Going to be quite the week!