Thursday, December 30, 2010

We Survived Christmas, but Will We Survive Christmas Break?

Rylee snapped a picture of me taking out the trash. This has occurred frequently during Christmas break. How can 5 people create so much trash??

Chad told me that my Christmas table would make people "uncomfortable." Direct quote.
Our gingerbread house fared much better this year. We let the frosting/glue sit for 30 minutes before we started decorating this time. Way less strucutral damage this way.
Many Christmas lights were looked at that put ours to shame.


We still have 6 days of Christmas break left to survive. I like the sleeping in and no where that I have to rush out the door for, but by about 11 in the morning I'm ready to go somewhere, and frankly there's just no where I want to go with three kids in tow. Hence the running out of milk this morning at breakfast. I guess we have to go at least one place today....

I've finished Little Women so far and am on to Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell. Good books make for a good vacation. It's been hard to put all the junk food behind me. On my bloggy friend Meredith's recommendation I started that Jillian Michaels Shred It DVD, or whatever it's called. Apparently I need muscles that I've never used in my entire life to complete that work out because I've been hobbling around ever since. I curse the day we bought a home with stairs. I have a feeling I'm just wasting my time with it if I keep eating the junk food. Oh well. We'll work on that when the kids go back to school.

4 comments:

bethany said...

Chad is funny-what exactly about your table is making people "uncomfortable"???

I'm doing the 30 day shred too-and hoping that I'll shed 40 pounds in the next 30 days.

Just kidding. If I can get rid of 5 pounds, that would be a start. 40 lbs just need to go at some point. It's like carrying around an extra person. A small person, but a person nonetheless.

Marisa said...

Boys don't know anything, your table looks awesome.

Meredith Hayes said...

If it makes you feel any better, I still haven't brought Jillian into my home, because the more I thought about her the more afraid I became. But it's just a matter of time...she's threatening me in the spiritual voice in the back of my head. Plus since my gestational diabetes test came back normal, I went to TIZZOWN on the treats and now look 10 months pregnant.

And I'll second that, the Christmas table looks awesome.

Sheralie said...

I love the trash picture. So funny. And I think your centerpieces look like a magazine...