DECEMBER IMPROVING

Been a good, actually a great, weekend. Didn't get quite as much accomplished as I wanted, but do we ever? Bit the bullet and got a new washer. She's a beauty, 2.7 cubic feet of a clean-clothes-making machine. No more dragging clothes over to my mom's, or the laundry facilities here at the apartment, or anyone else having to wash our clothes. We can do them from the comfort of our kitchen. Good stuff.

Got the tree up. That's the only Christmas decorations we have up at the time, but it's a start. It wasn't without a moment of panic. It's a pre-lit tree, and I've had it for 6 years. Pulled it out of the box, plugged up the first section, and some of the lights didn't work. Whaaaaat?! That's never happened before. So I was told you have to go around the tree and check every light that is out to find the bad one. Sure enough, found the loose bulb and now all lights on the tree are working. I keep our tree simple. Only thing on it are sentimental ornaments, no tinsel, no garland, just wonderful memories. Colby isn't much for helping to put on the ornaments. After about 6 minutes of it, he was done. So I worked on it on and off the rest of the day. Check it off the to-do list, and that makes me, as Phil on Duck Dynasty would say, "hap-py hap-py hap-py."

Eye gaze story: I was putting ornaments on the tree, Colby was sitting up in his chair doing eye gaze. He said, "shapes, triangle." I thought OMGosh, how cool, because a Christmas tree is, in fact, the shape of a triangle. Dang my child is a genius. Then I was going, "Oh look Colby, you made this ornament at school" or "Ah Colby, we got this ornament when we went to such-and-such a place," etc. He looked at his eye gaze and said, "enough." Then the very next thing he did was turn on the TV through his eye gaze. Ha, guess he told me what he thought about the whole ornament-reminiscing moment I was trying to have. Yep, he's 100% boy.

Going to wrap this up now. The Colts are on. I haven't had a shower since Friday afternoon. Colby and I both need some lunch. Happy Sunday everyone. Only 17 freakin' days til Christmas. I will be ready. I will be ready. I will not lose my mind between now and then. I will not lose my mind between now and then.