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December 16, 2008

fa la la la la

Holy....bajeezus. I've never been so not-ready for a holiday. Last year I started in august or something ungodly like that so that I could have a baby in December and still send out Christmas cards with a family picture. HA. What on earth was I thinking? It worked but I was a stressed out mess. This year I'm pretty sure we won't be sending many cards and if we DO, they will be sans picture. I've just had a hard time getting my act together. I have the kids together more than ever but uh, sometimes they're not clean and dressed nicely. I imagine that'd make for a third world christmas picture. All we'd need is to have a fly land on max's face while I snap the picture or something equally horrifying. Suzie says that baths are for dirty people...I think my kids are officially dirty by now. So for those of you who normally get a christmas card, I love you and I hope to see you SOON. Please forgive us...we're sucky slackers this year and will resume with fabulousity next year.

Tonight's dad/daughter date night. I love shopping with dad and especially the dinner and beer drinking after we shop. This year I'm going to enlist Kendall to help with wrapping because she's willing and able and she's normally 2 inches behind me talking my ears off anyway.

This Friday is my last day of work til January 5. Then I have been summonsed to jury duty in Richmond. Oooooh, grand jury stuff. I have visions of being stalked and killed by some bad person I voted to put away.

woot. 12 minutes til shopping!

Posted by krystal at 4:33 PM

December 14, 2008

getting older sucks

Last Wednesday baby Max turned 1. Suzie was so gracious to have us at her house and feed us stuff and make everyone happy.

Max is very very active. He climbs everything that can be climbed. He's climbed stairs, windows, book shelves, EVERYTHING. Oddly enough though, he hasn't started walking yet. He was the earliest crawler in the world, but he seems to like that stage. I'm ok with it but I'd rather he stop eating stuff from the ground. He's started to repeat things we say. So he says "uh oh" "nononono" and "dada" a lot. He still reserves "mama" for ms. suzie and for occasions where he's crying and nobody else wants to hold him.

This Christmas is going to be awesome. We're in our new house and soon we'll get a tree. Max has a new christmas stocking because last year's says "baby's first Christmas". Dan wouldn't let me scratch out first with a sharpie and write "second". He's mean.

I hope to start having a social life again soon!

Posted by krystal at 12:53 PM | Comments (1)

December 7, 2008

A general foods internatn'l coffee moment...on crack

We're moving in 2 days. I've been in-the-midst-of-moving for so long that I'm not sure what it'll be like to not be surrounded by boxes. It's so bad that even Dan complained about the clutter. The past month seems to have been an exercise in something...I'm just not sure what. I do have to say that buying a house these days is WAY different from the last time I bought one in 1988. Now you just scan, fax, email and verify on the phone. It's almost too easy. We got our loan without being grilled to death and aside from having to wait til TUESDAY, it's been a very good experience. If you ever need a realtor please ask me about Chrissy. She's really truely found her niche. I haven't had to deal with anything. She takes care of things and has our back even when we're not sure what she's up to. I can't say enough good stuff about all of this.

Oh, so last Tuesday I got older again. I had a nice birthday dinner out at Capital Ale House with Dan, Tyler, Amy and Billy. I think I heard from friends I've not talked to in years and I even got a call from Stacy in Puerto Rico. If you have not heard about how Dan wrecked my birthday over the millinium falcon, please ask me, not him. I'll explain it all in very clear language without even getting angry again. Even though I'm over it now (see? I'm not seething), he's still bringing it up daily, like HE is the victim here. whatever. (we're not really still fighting, please don't feel the need to avoid us, even if we are moving and would make you move shit for us)

It sort of feels like the month of December is going by way too fast. Max is turning 1 on Wednesday and thankfully Suzie has offered to let us have a small birthday celebration at her house since she's got my kids anyway. We're just gonna do cake/icecream at 4 so we can take some pictures and prove that we did celebrate him on his first birthday. We'll make it up to him later, I promise.

Kendall and I had a really cool night. We were completely over the whole packing thing so this evening we went to the mall. We had fun walking around and buying stuff, even though shopping that doesn't end with dot com usually just doesn't work for me. Then we had a really awesome dinner at Ozeki. Kendall loves japanese steakhouse food. I just love being with her. I think the thing that makes me enjoy her so much is that she loves to talk about things we've done in the past and good grief, she remembers a lot. She's fun to be around and fun to talk to. I know that we'll eventually hit those teen years where she's not really interested in being around me, but we're not there yet so I'm soaking her up like a sponge. I love that the things we do today will be the memories she talks about later.

Posted by krystal at 9:53 PM | Comments (4)