Jan 1

Happy New Year! Let's try to get this started off right.

Today Hub's left early to go look at a boat with a few guys. Bub's and I slept in. I enjoyed the morning by letting the girls out and putting their food out while I made a cup of coffee and turned on an episode of Magnum. A slow morning gives me time to check in with the peeps on Facebook and get inspired by Pinterest.

After I woke Bubs for practice I helped him make his bed and put on the pop tarts and poured the milk. Bub's plans on a few of boys coming home with him so I'm cleaning house. Again. Neverending.

Tomorrow mom and Yo are coming over to craft before Bub's basketball game. I'm getting the menu and list of crafts together. Making a grocery list for Hubs to pick up on his way home from practice.

Goals for the new year seem to be reoccurring 

Daily:

Follow the Plan

         to do checklist on fridge

Get Skinny-

         Cook from recipes

         Walk the dogs

Read-

         75 books for the year

Clean and Organize the house Top to Bottom

Pay off debt

Nails Always Painted

Weekly: 

crockpot

finish a book 

scrap month before

Monthly:

Pinterest pages

keurig exchange

put the ebook on ipad

christmas thank yous

catch up on ncis

Moderation

It's funny. I forget how challenging the holidays are time and diet wise. There is just so much to squeeze into such a short time. I eat and drink way out of moderation. Yuck. Pepsi and no bakes for breakfast. Little Debbie tree cakes and pie. Good but not good. And although I'm a crazy person and run/worry off most of it, my face looks like I'm 16 again, and not in the good way. Time to get real folks. 

R&R

ahhh rest and relaxation...
Our couch has taken all it can take. It now sits on the ground. I'm going to take a hint and lose some weight.

Mom gave us childhood scrapbooks for Christmas. Bub wants to know why I look like an Indian in all the pics.

Christmas 2014

Stella peed on me while I was pulling up her leg warmer.
Mom gave John and Harbor potpourri to drink- not really it was a spiced drink but apparently had gone bad. She did offer to put 'whipped creme stuff' in it. Vodka. I informed her that wasn't gonna happen :)
The boys said I can't put potpourri out anymore. 

Holiday movies

Favorite holiday movies? White Christmas, Holiday in Handcuffs, 12 Dates of Christmas, Christmas Kiss, The Vicar of Dibsley Christmas episodes, You've Got Mail, Santa Buddies, Santa Baby 2, Christmas Cupid (-), All I Want for Christmas (both of them-), Christmas Crush (--), I'll be Home for Christmas (-), The Christmas that Almost Wasn't (-),  are on Netflicks. Unfortunately Fred Claus, Miracle on 34th Street, Elf, the Santa Clause movies, 4 Christmases, The Grinch, Bishop's Wife, Christmas Vacation, A Golden Christmas are not. I have It's a Wonderful Life on VHS. I like quirky, funny and semi romantic ones. I'm putting up the last of the decorations and John is sick on the couch so we are in for the night. Not a big fan of Christmas with the Kranks, Scrooged, Get Santa. 

Inappropriate

I am an inappropriate laugher.
I joined a friend at the theater to watch Gone Girl and having read the book and, knowing this girl is a psycho freak, I laughed through most of it. My companion mentioned the other people in the theater might find that strange not knowing what's coming. Tis true, I couldn't help it....

Sneakercon

Last weekend we traveled to Sneakercon, a sneaker convention catering to the crowd who knows their sneakers.
While we were in line, vendors passed out QR code papers to make an offer on all available shoes- Jordan 11, Kobe 9, Lebron XI.
Bub bought 2 pairs of shoes, one for 25$ and one for 130$.
After a few hours it was so crowded we all felt uncomfortable so we headed downtown, where we paid too much for parking- $30 a day, and ate at Downtown Dogs
We took the boys downtown to the Nike store. Amazing. Yo bought Harbor a KD 7 jacket and I bought him another pair of overpriced socks.

We stayed at the SpringHill Suites in Chicago Elmhurst/Oakbrook Area and it was lovely.
We headed to Armitage which is our favorite street in Chicago.
Art Effect had a lovely little skirt I purchased. At All She Wrote I found a Kate Spade book thermal travel mug that I'm drinking out of right now. My favorite consignment store in Chicago has been McShane's Exchange for years but this year I found 1 dress and when I was checking out I asked how far their other location was and she said it went out of business. :( very upsetting. But their was another store a few doors down and I bought a sweater there.
The boys ordered bacon by the pint at a sports bar on Armitage.
Gas cost about $100.

This week is OGT testing and I realized kids today can't tell time and don't even grasp how long minutes are.... Not good.

My own son seems unable to fill out an envelope. I was lamenting they are unable to tell time when the subject of filling out an envelope or writing a letter came up. The teacher sheepishly said, did you get your letter??? Ya it was a pitiful envelope from my son.