Holiday Spirit

We borrowed the movie Elf from a friend and had a special movie night with zz on Monday. We also had some s'mores around the firepit, just with him.

He left on Tuesday for almost a week.

I'm devastated as usual. It's always worse when he leaves in tears, too. Never gets easier.

I'm thankful we had quality fun time with him before he left. He loved the movie so much. And he switched back and forth cuddling with us the whole movie. Bless his sweeet sweet heart. He is a treasure.

He also spent some time in the latest toy catalog with a sharpie. You know, in case we wanted to shop for him while he was gone. ;)

SG watched her very first real Disney princess movie tonight. Cinderella. Don't tell Daddy I paid $25 for it!! She picked out the book from the store a couple weeks ago and I've read it to her a couple times. So I thought this might be the Disney movie to start with. She really enjoyed it.

She calls the stepsisters Sassy and Cranky. Oh, how that makes me laugh!!!

Thanksgiving is tomorrow. Not gonna lie, I am not really into it at all. I am feeling major pressure that I really don't need. This season of life is already tough on a young family with two parents who work, and three (adorable!) young kids.

We don't have a someone who will drop by at naptime to push me out the door to have lunch with my hubby. We can't afford to send our kids to preschool during the week so there is extra time to get things done. If we need help, Brian takes off work or we pay $12/hour. I work from home and have real life deadlines, and sometimes that means I cannot entertain an out of town guest in the middle of the day. (making rude comments to my husband about that is so wrong on so many levels... not to mention, of course he will tell me!!)

For the love. I wish I had enough time on my hands to cause drama.

I say this frequently... As our kids have their own young families, they will see us involved in their lives, helping them out, and not with conditions and not with guilt.

We cannot wait to give that gift to our children!

I'm trying very hard to have holiday spirit. I'm borderline about to be very un-southern-like and stop the smile-and-ignore-the-white-elephant-in-the-room, and let some people know how their actions are affecting those around them.

Thankfully SGs complete excitement about Christmas is kinda making it really all kinds of fun. And my boys are just the sweetest things in the world. I am one blessed mommy and wife, that's for sure. <3 We got half our outdoor lights up and hopefully will start the tree tomorrow. It will be so cute to see their little faces when they see the tree!! They make all this nonsense worth it.

Maybe it's gonna be a good thing to just stick with my people this holiday season!