It's my favorite time of the year!!

(said heavily laced with sarcasm)



This weekend is a trip to the inlaws. Now we know that my preferred daughter in law status has been approved. But that doesn't change how much I enjoy packing up the kids (now three of course) and travelling over there to stay in our (possibly stinky, and very possibly cold) travel trailer.



To make the trip even more appealing I have carefully orchestrated a major dental appointment tomorrow. See, last week I popped out a filling (totally on purpose of course) and now have to have the offending tooth pulled. The offending-pain-in-my-ass-since-I-was-twelve-years-old-and-it-should-have-been-pulled-along-with-my-wisdom-teeth-tooth. This lousy tooth has had fillings, root canal, and now this. At least I will finally be done with it.



But you know. Thought I would make the weekend more fun. The good news is I only have to stay for one night.



Gosh I miss this blog. I miss scrapbooking too, but I miss the time to sit and just rattle on about the every day in this semi-anonymous venue.



Little d in school. She has relaapsed in the last few weeks into missing me and getting teary/crying. She still trudges through and doesn't fight going, she just clearly would rather not. I think the 'oh this is going to go on forever' mentality has finally hit. I can so relate. I hated most every day of school growing up. I was really wishing she would have so much fun that she wouldn't miss me at all. Maybe it will get easier as the time goes on. Although to be fair, it hasn't gotten easier for me.



Little d just finished her first ever Christmas program last night. I could not have been more proud. She knew all the little hand moves and words and smiled while she sang. SO precious!!



Little m is hitting the defiant stage but at the same time so stinkin cute! She is really into books right now. She loves to just look at them or be read to. And just this week she started playing on the computer. Not just looking over Little d's shoulder.



Little md. Crawling and pulling up on things. In fact we have decided the Christmas tree will look ever so lovely in the dining room this year. Not in the living room where Little md can help with it.



And the three of them...all in various stages of yet another snotty nose cold. Little md the worst of the three right now. Hopefully only a few days until he is all better. And here's the part of me that is weak and vindictive. Maybe this year we will be the ones spreading Christmas cheer to the other snot nosed kids that are at the inlaws family Christmas instead of the other way around. Oh I know that's petty!! And mean and awful and I should delete that sentence entirely!! But I won't even though it's not how I really feel.

Whiney child wins...post must end now!