"Attention Passengers...

there will be a 24 hour layover on our journey. Sorry for the inconvenience. Might I suggest unloading all of the Christmas presents, checking out the after-Christmas sales for an hour or two, trying to do all of your laundry, exchange a few presents for different sizes or colors, wash and clean out your car, and re-pack all of your things to pass the time before we continue on our trip? Thank you for traveling with Ware-Express."

On this day in History

(actually just last year...I happy enough to remember exactly what I was doing on this day last year, there is no way I remember for any other year.)

It was Saturday December 22. I had just finished teaching my last classes the day before. (There were two other girls at school due after me and they both had their babies before me. I remember sitting at a faculty meeting on Thurs. the 20th and they announced that one of them had their baby the night before, everyone was like "yea that is so exciting", said in your fakest excited voice, and I said "That sucks!")

Ryan and I had some Christmas shopping to do so we were out and about all day. I can't remember all of the details from that day but I do remember that evening we went to Target to shop for stocking stuffers. We set a limit of $20 and each picked a letter. The other person had to buy stuff for your stocking that started with the letter you chose. It was really fun! And required quite a bit of creativity. Being 10 months pregnant I had a major case of pregnancy brain: I shopped for about 10 minutes and had a few things that all started with the letter I wanted and not the letter Ryan wanted so I had to start over.

Then we went over to Pei Wei for some supper. I ordered Pei Wei spicy with chicken and fried rice. Did I mention that I was 10 maybe 11 months pregnant at this point?? So I was willing to try the spicy food mumbo jumbo. When our order came I piled on the spicy mustard. Ryan just stared at me with his eyes wide.

We headed home and crashed on the couch for some tv movies, I wrote this entry at some point and I went to bed fairly early. Little did I know, I had a big day ahead!!!

Today, Blake and I met Mary Catherine and Alex at the mall for some last minute shopping and lunch. Blake played at the mall playground and has almost mastered walking. She stayed with Paco this afternoon so I could run a few more errands and is now sleeping soundly. WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES!!!!

I realized last night at dinner that since this was a leap year Blake will be 366 days old tomorrow!

New Pics Like I Promised...

I am awesome!

My Hiatus

I just tried to log in and put in the wrong user name and the wrong password twice. That's how long it has been. I have not been posting for a number of reasons. And I also haven't been reading other blogs either. I get this weird guilt trip about not posting and I don't feel like I "deserve" to read other blogs when I don't update my own. So I have been out of the blog world for about a month!!! Lots of catching up to do!

I have many, many things to post about. I think that is another reason I haven't blogged in awhile....too overwhelming! I can't find the time to make one post, especially since I can't freaking log on at school anymore :( So thinking about all the topics I need to update about makes my head spin. I decided that I have enough going on in my world right now and bloggin should not be something to stress over. So, I am going to play catch up. Little by little. Maybe several new posts at once. If anyone is out there, try to keep up!!

Here are a few pics to hold you over until tomorrow (or maybe the next day!) Son of a .... you have go to be kidding. I just sat here for like 20 minutes waiting for these pics (and catching up on some blogs... it was totally legal because I wrote a post) and they didn't load!!!! Ahhhhh!!! I am giving up and trying again tomorrow! Night, night.