Forget Thanksgiving... I want to put my decorations up now! It's not that I don't love the harvesty (is that even a word) stuff that goes with Thanksgiving and Autumn, it's that I love Christmas even more! And since Target, my favorite store in the whole world, has had their Christmas stuff up since November 1, you can see why I'm getting antsy. It hasn't helped that our neighbors have had their stuff up since mid-October and some other friends of ours put up stuff in their house... I, according to Nathan, have to wait til after Thanksgiving. Not cool... I'm going to slowly smuggle things into the house and put them up while he's at work over the next week... :-) He won't notice. Especially if it's subtle. I don't know what it is, there is just something about the season of Christmas that makes me happy. You'd think people would hate it more since half the population is at the malls and various stores grumpy, whiny and mean, but there's something about smiling at those people and saying "Merry Christmas" and watching their reaction that makes my day. I have to admit, I really like when they look at me like, "are you kidding?" It cracks me up. I also respond to those who say, "Happy Holidays" with "Merry Christmas" - that's what I celebrate so that's what I say...
I have plenty of time to continue my love for Christmas in blog form, but I'd like to tell you that Emma has discovered how to sit herself up from her belly, she's just about crawling (it's a little frightening to know she's going to be more mobile soon) and she's just discovered she can pull herself up. I really don't know what I'm going to do soon... My little baby is growing up and she's not going to be the tiny little bundle I cuddle with before I know it. I'm getting all the cuddles in now while she still lets me. We're sleep training. The doctor recommended crying it out (CIO as I type it usually). CIO is my least favorite thing ever. It kills me when she cries, but the pedi says it's effective and it will help us get her sleeping through the night in her crib. She was a great sleeper til Nathan went to Ecuador, she slept with me at camp and we moved. A lot of sleeping out of her bassinet/crib and a lot of change and now we are having to start over. But we both know that if we don't get her in her crib now, she'll be five and climbing in bed with us. Not gonna happen...
Well, it's time for me to go to bed. Emma decided it would be fun to wake up for the day at 6 this morning. Pretty sweet since she thought it'd be even better to go back to sleep for an hour at 7:30! By that point, I wasn't going to fall back to sleep... Needless to say it's been a long day for both of us.
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