This is my first Christmas Season that I have been working in a couple of years, and boy it's busy!! I just feel like there are too many things on my to do list and not enough time to do it all! Ha! Thanksgiving and Eloise's birthday was a crazy weekend and now it's December and the crazy doesn't stop! Luckily, this is the good kind of crazy and everything we have planned is fun and exciting!!
Julian is back to work full time which makes him excited, and I am so happy for him! I just sometimes miss my house husband! But, it's been great and he seems so happy! Besides that, this past weekend we were busy! We shopped for a mattress for Eloise's new bed, had a North Pole Breakfast thanks to Pete the Elf (Eloise named him, not us lol!) and did all the inside decorating for Christmas. Decorating with a toddler can be challenging and we learned how fast expensive ornaments can be broken. But, we learned and she enjoyed it and asks for more ornaments all the time. On Sunday, our family was asked to do the first reading and candle lighting at our church for advent! It was really special and I'm glad we did it! Pastor Ray even announced that we were pregnant to the congregation and everyone was really sweet.
This week I have progress reports to do and we are finding out if Eloise is gonna have a baby brother or sister!! I still am 90% sure it's a boy, but I guess we will see if I predicted correctly! My mom watches Eloise now everyday (since Julian's back at work) and is trying to move back to sea bright. So tomorrow will be Eloise's first day back at Nan's house since the storm and we are praying she naps in a pack n play in my parents room amongst the crazy that is my parents bottom floor (workers/noise/George).
Next weekend we have the Christmas party up north for the children in a group home. Instead of doing gifts this year with any of my family (cousins/siblings/etc) we are all just donating what we would have spent and giving these kids a great Christmas!! It is double the amount of kids this year and we are trying to get them better gifts. Doing this is really making us see what Christmas is about! And of course, Julian is being Santa again which is hilarious.
We also have our town's Christmas Tree lighting. We missed it last year (by a day....yes we walked in the freezing cold to en empty park to see an already lit Christmas tree) I'm excited to do this and hopefully make it a tradition. It takes place in our park so it's close by and a fun little thing we can look forward to each year!
Then of course there are family Christmas gatherings and my friend's Christmas and the live Nativity at Church and a gingerbread house party I'm throwing for my class (ugh so much work but they love it). We have to set up Eloise's big girl room (I'm avoiding the inevitable) and start work on the nursery! I need to figure out my last day of work and hand in all the paperwork. Lots to do and before I know it, it'll be January!
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