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Merry Christmas Internet! I hope you have a safe and wonderful Christmas, a peaceful and joyous New Year, and may your comment sections be plentiful.
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Hey Guys, guess what?! My blog is easier to use than mailing out invitations! I figure if you are not reading my blog then we don’t really want you there anyway. Just kidding. Not really. Maybe.
I know everyone is frantically trying to finish buying/wrapping/baking/traveling/stressing for Christmas, but New Year’s Eve is just around the corner. The Husband and I were thinking since so many of our friends have little kids, or are pregnant, or like to sit around more than go out to dance, we would have a very low-key New Year’s party(ish).
We are thinking DVDs on our notsohotbuttotallyworks TV, and pizza for the adults, and a pajama party for the kids. I will just lay out sleeping bags and pillows, or whatever else the kiddos need in The Son’s room, and hopefully they will sleep, and the grown-ups don’t have to worry about finding babysitters. Just in case some children (mine) will not sleep, the movies will fall somewhere in between Finding Nemo and Pulp Fiction.
We will provide cokes and whatnot, maybe everyone could chip in a couple of bucks so we do not have to eat Little Caesars craptastic pizza, and if you want some alcohol-BYOA. 8:30ish to 12:05 AM, feel free to wear your jammies.
Is that low key enough for everybody? Are we all getting old and boring, or is it just The Husband and I? Hope to see you then, let me know if you are coming, and most of all Merry Christmas!
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Shoeshe has been doing a series of bizarre Nativity scenes over at her blog, and I wanted to throw some that I like, not this, into the mix.
For the last few years I have been collecting Fontanini nativity pieces. I know it looks a little funny now, but in a few years this will be gorgeous. I have my fingers crossed that Santa is going to put a shepherd in my stocking this year. In case you were wondering where baby Jesus is, he does not appear until Christmas morning.
The Fontanini is very appealing to The Son, he kept pushing a chair over to the china cabinet and climbing up so he could play with “Baby Jesus Mama and Daddy!” To curtail this, I found this Fisher Price Little People set at Wal-Mart, if you push the angel it plays “Away in a Manger”. It my be inaccurate and cheesy, but he loves it, it has gotten him to talk about Jesus, and he has been leaving my Fontanini alone. Win-Win-Win.
Speaking of inaccurate Nativities, here is our church’s children’s Christmas Program. The Son started to cry when he realized I was not in the entryway of the church with him right before he was to walk in. He came straight to me, and sat in my lap refusing to sit with the other wise men. At the very end he grabbed the microphone to sing the last song, “Joy to the World.” In other words, here are some cute children, but the only part that has The Son in it is that flash of red cape and silver crown in the beginning, the edge of him holding the microphone at the almost end, and me carrying him out at the very end. We will try again next year. Also watch for the antics the microphone caused. Can you tell we did not rehearse with it?
Filed under faith | Comments (8)Explanation about the TV thing
I mentioned in a totally unrelated post that we do not have TV over on CAT’s blog. Let me clarify. We do have a TV, two of them in fact. What we do not have is cable or a dish or whatever else you have that lets you watch more than two channels. Sometimes we get three! On a clear day we can even get four! It works for the news and the occasional Scrubs rerun and that is about it.
We gave up cable for Lent almost two years ago, and could never justify turning it back on. We stuck pretty hard to the AAP recommended rule that children under two should watch NO TELEVISION whatsoever, although we did loosen up some over the summer. Not having cable just makes it easier not to cave to the temptation of plopping him down in front of Nick Jr., which would be so much easier a lot of days. I just do not have that much self-control I guess, it is better just to not have the option. Now he usually watches one DVD a day, lately it has been Merry Christmas Charlie Brown.
I also liked really bad TV. Like VH1 reality TV bad. After a particularly good Sunday School series about you are what you watch….again, it is better just not having the option.
We read more, play games together more, play one on one with The Son, read our favorite blogs more, and watch just our very favorite shows on the Internet (The Office, Big Bang Theory, Lost, Dirty Jobs). We also save a TON of money, really a lot. It is one of the reasons that I am able to be at home with The Son instead of at work. So there ya go, in this age of TiVo, we have rabbit ears that rarely work. We may be freaks but it works for us.
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Didn’t you used to have ads? Yes, I did. In the last few months my hits have really jumped, which is YEAH! Awesome. (Why do you new people not comment?) This also means my ad revenue had a sudden jump. The good people over at Google Ads….suspended my account so they would not have to pay me. Needless to say I was a wee bit pissed. I have been asked to be part of another ad network, I just need to do a few more things first. Details to follow some other time.
I read a lot of different blogs, and wanted to tell you I appreciate you not cursing, that is rare even among mommy bloggers! This is not really a question, but you are welcome. I have never really said the “big two” more than a handful of times, and have tried to curtail any words I do not want my two year old saying. (we were watching Dirty Jobs while caring for my parents dogs at their house last week, and Mike Rowe said, “So this is Gourd Sex.” The Son immediately said “Gwod Sex! Gwod Sex!” I told him the man on TV said gourds are six, but I do not think he believed me.) Sorry I got sidetracked. What was I talking about? Cursing, right, so my parents never really cursed, and neither did my close friends, or husband, and truth be told….I think it is a little tacky. There ya go, I just called most of the blogasphere tacky. I didn’t mean it! (or I at least did not mean to let you know that is what I thought.) Please still be my friend.
You never told us how you finished weaning off of Lexapro. Um, yeah. There is a reason for that. I gave up. The Husband and I had sorta kinda decided that I would come off of Lexapro by August 31, The Son’s second birthday, and then we would open up discussions about whether we wanted to start thinking about another baby. Mid-August we talked about it, and both agreed we were just not at all feeling another kid any time soon. We did not say never, but definitely not in the next year or so. Since there was no longer a reason to worry about being on an SSRI, while pregnant, it just seemed stupid for me to be having panic attacks or generalized anxiety when there is a perfectly good way to prevent them. At 2.5 mgs I was having horrible, horrible withdrawal, at 5 mg I was still feeling worried about stupid things, so I am back to my original (yet still very small) dosage of 10mg of Lexapro. That Lexapro Lexplains it category on this blog is not going anywhere anytime soon.
I am your friend, I think, so why do you not talk about me, or write me a birthday post or something? I do not post pictures or names of people who I am not either related to, or that have told me specifically that they do not mind their images on the blog. I have tons of friends whom I LOVE, but I just can’t write about every single person who is special to me, and if I wrote a birthday post for everyone then that is all this blog would be. The Huckablog is supposed to be my therapy, not a greeting card. But I still love you, really I do.
What ever happened to the Read it or Rant posts? Short answer? It started to feel like homework so I quit. Long answer, they were making me feel stressedwhen they were late, and no one seemed to be reading them anyway so I quit. There has been some interest in starting an online book club, and I will totally provide that for people on a separate page here, I just do not want to be the only one participating. If I can get a volunteer to recommend a book and then write a review, I will post it and moderate the comments.
I do enjoy your blog, but you have offended me with some of your God/prayer/Christian type posts. Can you lay off for those atheists like me out there? Can I lay off being a Christian? No, I can definitely not lay off of that for you. I am sorry if you felt offended, but as egocentric as it may sound this blog is about me, the real me. You will never hear me mocking other faiths, and I even have a lot of respect for different beliefs, but they are not what I know to be true. My faith is an enormous part of who I am, and while I do not expect everyone to agree with me, I do hope that you can understand why I will not censor any relgious posts I may write, I just could not live with myself if I “hid my light under a bushel.”
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These are my parents. Well, the backside of them anyway. They have been gone on my Grandparent’s farewell tour for a really long time. Their dogs are at our house, and in case you were wondering, four dogs is two too many. Today is also my Mom’s birthday, and normally I would write a sweet and loving post about her and post some pictures that might make her cry. Normally. But with my mom…well it is just too dang hard. I can’t sum it up.
How can I possibly explain that she is more than just your normal run of the mill parent. That she is my friend, my confidant, my adviser, she cheers me on, she pushes me forward, she makes me potato soup. That she takes care of everyone around her and does a good job. I could never spin all of the plates she has in the air if she were to need me to step in. I get exhausted just thinking about it all.
I found this which reminds me of her, of her warmth, it is JUST for my mom, NO ONE CLICK ON IT EXCEPT FOR HER! If you do you are going to know what a huge geek I am, and my mom already knows. Wait! I TOLD YOU NOT TO CLICK! Arg. Now I have to come up with something cool to write about so you don’t think I am lame for my love of John Denver. Dang it.
Happy Birthday Mom, I love you, and so does The Husband, and The Son has been asking about you for over a week. Now please come get your dogs.
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updated Saturday night, 11:45pm
Maybe if I post my to do list for the entire Internet to read I will actually get up and do something instead of laying under the sick quilt watching cartoons with The Son and going through the pretty Christmas box of Kleenex.
Hey You’s To Do by SUNDAY MORNING!
*Decorate Christmas tree.
*Put Batteries in all singing Christmas toys.
*Remember why I took out all batteries of Christmas toys and remove again, explain that toys are “sleeping”
*Finish decorating house for Christmas–those knick-knacks aren’t going to look cluttered by themselves!
*”Help” The Husband put up outside lights. (by help I mean sit on driveway and repeatedly say “Don’t fall!”) Halfway done, we were thwarted by dud lights.
*Wrangle The Husband and The Son into sitting still long enough for The Neighbor to take a picture of us worthy of handing out to all of our loved ones. pictures were taken, not sure if any will make the cut. Oh well, better luck next year.
*Design and order Christmas cards
*Make list of who should get a card, and who should get a gift.
*Buy a gift or two.
*Ask Ang and Cat why they have not yet sent me church bulletins.
*Laundry, especially slipcovers that smell. Did anyone really expect this to get done?
*Go to Burger King to get cardboard crown.
*Finish The Son’s King costume for Christmas play.
*Get Well. Wellish.
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