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Merry Christmas

It's Christmas Day!! I never would have anticipated how much fun the baby girl's first Christmas would be. We've taken a ton of movies so far, and more are to come. They will be posted shortly...

Happy Holidays to everyone!!

I'm back

Our computer was down for like....too long. I never thought I would miss my blog, but I did. It was something about a corrupt operating system...yada, yada, yada...it was sent away to the computer ER and now it's back and better than ever.

So much stuff has happened since the last blog, where do I begin?

Well, all of the Christmas shopping is officially done. OK, not true. I have one more thing to buy, and I was going to do that today, but Navarre started fussing in the car. I thought I shouldn't press my luck, so I took her home. I am going to get that last one thing today though. I only have a couple of things left to wrap, so I'm doing well there. The stocking for Navarre has hit a snag. I needed embroidery hoops to do the embroidery on it ( I knew that; I don't know what I was thinking). So, I haven't done that yet. I'm going to give it a few practice runs before I do hers, because if momma messes it up, well then she's going to have a messed up stocking.

We've had a Christmas card kafuffle with the computer crash. We also took baby girl to get her picture with Santa. She wasn't too impressed. The jingling bells and adults acting like jackasses didn't seem to amuse her either. See for yourself...

She didn't cry and claw his eyes out with her fingernails that I forget to keep trimmed, so it was a successful picture in our proud parent eyes.

On a more serious note, I'm sad I won't be home this Christmas. The family has had a rough year, with my cousin Cleve passing away and Paw-Paw moving to a nursing home. Things are good now with Paw-Paw, but it was a rough time getting here. I wish I could be there with the family on Christmas Eve, but I will see them very soon after in January. I plan to take Navarre to Cleve's grave and "introduce" the two and tell her about her cousin. Hopefully, she and Caden, Cleve's son, can play together lots while we're home. There are actually 3 babies in the family this year.

So, I've been shopping, wrapping, baking, but not blogging. I've also thought the blog topics need to be a bit more exciting, so if you're a reader and you have some ideas...send them my way.

Another year down and I have pink sheets

So, another year passes, and I'm 27. A year ago today we found out I was pregnant. Wow, how a year can totally change your life in every possible way. Some people take time on birthdays for inner reflection on the person they have become or the person they want to be. All I can think is that I have no idea who I am because I bought pink sheets for my bed the other day. For those who know me, you know that this seems completely outside of the possible realm for Leslie, but let me explain.

My husband can't seem to sleep on sheets without pulling them off of the matress. It doesn't help that we have a super thick faux Temperpedic matress topper that makes it difficult to keep the fitted sheet on the bed. Anyway, we go to Linens-N-Things with our 20% off coupon. Good news - we found super deep fitted sheets with a ridiculously high thread count. Bad news - the pink color is on sale, but the other normal colors are not. I could not bring myself to pay as much as they wanted for the other colors, so we have pink sheets. Nicole, quit doing your happy dance right now. I don't expect this to be a trend.

So, I'm thinking about all the changes that have come about this year and how happy I am with my family and my super soft sheets, even if they are pink.