Guilty Again

One of the Christmas Pictures, dress is a bit big

- Ireland's snow suit and Lamby mittens

Dammit, sorry guys I know it's been too long, I just get so busy, no excuse I know you guys are all crazy busy too. So what has been going on. Today is Christmas eve and we're going up to Cedar Rapids to have our family Christmas tonight. Then tommorrow morning we'll be here to open presents with just Mom, Dad, Ashley and her boyfriend Nick. Ireland has SOOO many presents it's just ridiculous, I'm sure mommy will have to open most of them for her. She likes to rip the paper for a minute but that's about it. We have been having lots of adventures lately. The first time it snowed she put on her snowsuit and we played outside, she loved it, but of course she couldn't really move in the bulky suit. Lately though it has been way to cold to play outside. It's been awful here, when the high for the day is negative one you know you're screwed. I have got to get out of here, I can't take this weather anymore. Two more years, two more years (That's when I'm fully vested in my 401k) She's also been getting better going with her father, but she's still pretty wary of most guys. Me the queen of all procrastinators (I just started and finished my christmas shopping yesterday) got her pictures done to put on Christmas cards but did I ever actually get the cards made? Nope, I'm horrible. Next year hopefully. Katie I feel your pain on the ornament hunt this year, there just was not alot of selection, I loved the one I got her last year for her first Christmas, but this year Ireland and Tyler have the same ornament, cause seriously that's all there was, cute but not my favorite. I think I'm gonna have to start a theme or something like my parents did for us. I always got Angels and Ashley got horses. So we'll see what next year brings. I also wanted to get Ireland a stocking this year, but once again could not find one. So I'll have to start the search earlier next year. Luckily she's still to young to really appreciate those things. I am happy to report she has not used the vomit against me for quite some time. Our biggest problem now is that she likes to throw these pathetic little fits when she can't do what she wants, like for instance the "child proof" outlet covers. Child proof my ass she loves to rip those things out of the wall and play with them, so I remove her from the situation and try to distract her, my child has a one track mind so immediately tries to get back to it, if you block her way she throws a fit and screams at you, it's actually rather hilarious, but I don't want to encourage these things so I usually just try to distract her some more. Finally we ended up putting duct tape over the covered outlets, and that stopped that, honestly, my child amazes me the shit she thinks to get into. We are having a big problem with constipation right now and I really don't know why. I finally ended up having to get her suppositories and I think that's starting to work, but god I really didn't want to do that, poor baby. As for me I've just been working and working and playing with my baby of course. I've also started seeing this guy I've been friends with for a few years. Nothing serious but he makes me happy and we have fun together, when we get to see each other which is kind of hard because I have my daughter and he has a two year old son. Really who doesnt' have kids these days, it's the cool thing to do I guess. Well I hope everyone has a great Christmas and a better New Years than I'm gonna have. (I'll be at work of course) Happy Christmas Eve!