The day after is always a little bitter sweet for me. I have all these regrets about Christmas and yet, it's still a sit around and do nothing day, so it's not like I have any huge responsibilities. I sat around and did my puzzle :). That was wonderful. 12-26-17
PING PONG TABLE
Nate and I had researched the Ping Pong tables to death this year. We found the perfect one for the price, but the reviews were not good on the assembly of the product. So we were nervous. I think that's why it took us two days to finally get around to putting it together. And well... the reviews were not wrong. The thing did take about two hours to assemble! And it wasn't easy! The instructions really could have been better. I don't know why those things have to be so confusing. But we didn't fight, we didn't even argue, and we actually got it put together in one evening (with a quick Panda Express for the family, intermission). And boy am I glad we did! The kids LOVED it!! They had so much fun with it all evening. We were all able to practice up so that when we play it with Nate tomorrow we have a little experience under our belt before he kills us at it :). 12-27-17
LAZY
I've talked a lot about what we didn't do and how lazy we've been the week following Christmas, but I realized today that there were a few things that I did this Christmas that I am really happy about and might possibly redeem me for all that I didn't. Well, maybe not that good, but still good! I am really happy with how much Christmas music we listened to! I've gone a lot of years where I didn't love the Christmas music as much as I should. This year I have my amazon account that gives me access to basically any song I want, so I listened to any and all Christmas music that I wanted to all season long (from Thanksgiving on- the rule still stands, no Christmas music before Thanksgiving, it's just not fair to the turkeys) and I REALLY loved it!! It really made it feel like Christmas and got me in the mood. In fact now that Christmas is over, I'm a little bummed to not be able to listen to it nonstop like I was. That will be something I look forward to next year. The second thing is all the playing I've been able to do with my kids. It masquerades as me being lazy or unproductive, but in reality is pretty much what I live for. We played with everyone's new toys!! It was so much fun! I love all the games of course, the Ping Pong, even some Tetris which isn't really new, but drew our attention this week. It's been awesome. I did take some time for myself to do a couple puzzles- we got TWO this year! Really hard ones that took up a lot of time, but the whole time I kept feeling like I deserved a little something for myself, so I'm going to go with that. It was a lot of fun. So while it may have been a smaller Christmas and less busy, which could really be considered a good thing, I'm glad we did the things we did. 12-29-17
SWIMMING
Nate woke up Friday with the need to do something fun. Since we hadn't left the house in a week anything would have qualified, but thankfully he thought of something that is actually fun and we ended up going swimming at the Clearfield Aquatic Center. It was a lot of fun! Everyone just plays to their hearts' content. Nate and Jack were buds for most of it, they stayed together mostly. Jack is a regular fish in the water now- I NEED to get him in swim lessons though! He had fun. Molly and I had a lot of fun together. She was cute, a little nervous at first then totally comfortable not long after we got there. Thankfully it didn't take as long to get adjusted as it has in the past... we're making progress!! She was fun and super cuddly- you could tell she was getting tired. Charity and Kelly seem a little lost when we go swimming these days. Charity actually went on the slide and stuff with the boys, but I think Kelly is torn. She stayed by me most of the time. We enjoyed some fun in the hot tub when Charity took Molly and Erika out to get some snacks. Charity also joined me in the hot tub. It's fun to have grown up girls to play with too. Erika ran around like crazy, bouncing from one group to the next. She seemed to have fun. Brad and Noah were buds this trip because Luke had invited Clint. They were all pretty much MIA the entire time though. I only caught glimpses of them here and there. We had a good time though! A much needed change of scenery. I felt so grateful for Nate and his inspiration to get us up and going and out of the house. I've struggled in this department this week. We came home, got showered and dressed (I ran off to meet with the Presidency for a few minutes) then we all went out to Texas Roadhouse for dinner! And of course a movie night with Dollar Tree Treats to top off the evening. What's a fun day without a movie night with treats? We watched Cool Runnings. Lots of fun. 12-29-17
PING PONG TABLE
Nate and I had researched the Ping Pong tables to death this year. We found the perfect one for the price, but the reviews were not good on the assembly of the product. So we were nervous. I think that's why it took us two days to finally get around to putting it together. And well... the reviews were not wrong. The thing did take about two hours to assemble! And it wasn't easy! The instructions really could have been better. I don't know why those things have to be so confusing. But we didn't fight, we didn't even argue, and we actually got it put together in one evening (with a quick Panda Express for the family, intermission). And boy am I glad we did! The kids LOVED it!! They had so much fun with it all evening. We were all able to practice up so that when we play it with Nate tomorrow we have a little experience under our belt before he kills us at it :). 12-27-17
LAZY
I've talked a lot about what we didn't do and how lazy we've been the week following Christmas, but I realized today that there were a few things that I did this Christmas that I am really happy about and might possibly redeem me for all that I didn't. Well, maybe not that good, but still good! I am really happy with how much Christmas music we listened to! I've gone a lot of years where I didn't love the Christmas music as much as I should. This year I have my amazon account that gives me access to basically any song I want, so I listened to any and all Christmas music that I wanted to all season long (from Thanksgiving on- the rule still stands, no Christmas music before Thanksgiving, it's just not fair to the turkeys) and I REALLY loved it!! It really made it feel like Christmas and got me in the mood. In fact now that Christmas is over, I'm a little bummed to not be able to listen to it nonstop like I was. That will be something I look forward to next year. The second thing is all the playing I've been able to do with my kids. It masquerades as me being lazy or unproductive, but in reality is pretty much what I live for. We played with everyone's new toys!! It was so much fun! I love all the games of course, the Ping Pong, even some Tetris which isn't really new, but drew our attention this week. It's been awesome. I did take some time for myself to do a couple puzzles- we got TWO this year! Really hard ones that took up a lot of time, but the whole time I kept feeling like I deserved a little something for myself, so I'm going to go with that. It was a lot of fun. So while it may have been a smaller Christmas and less busy, which could really be considered a good thing, I'm glad we did the things we did. 12-29-17
SWIMMING
Nate woke up Friday with the need to do something fun. Since we hadn't left the house in a week anything would have qualified, but thankfully he thought of something that is actually fun and we ended up going swimming at the Clearfield Aquatic Center. It was a lot of fun! Everyone just plays to their hearts' content. Nate and Jack were buds for most of it, they stayed together mostly. Jack is a regular fish in the water now- I NEED to get him in swim lessons though! He had fun. Molly and I had a lot of fun together. She was cute, a little nervous at first then totally comfortable not long after we got there. Thankfully it didn't take as long to get adjusted as it has in the past... we're making progress!! She was fun and super cuddly- you could tell she was getting tired. Charity and Kelly seem a little lost when we go swimming these days. Charity actually went on the slide and stuff with the boys, but I think Kelly is torn. She stayed by me most of the time. We enjoyed some fun in the hot tub when Charity took Molly and Erika out to get some snacks. Charity also joined me in the hot tub. It's fun to have grown up girls to play with too. Erika ran around like crazy, bouncing from one group to the next. She seemed to have fun. Brad and Noah were buds this trip because Luke had invited Clint. They were all pretty much MIA the entire time though. I only caught glimpses of them here and there. We had a good time though! A much needed change of scenery. I felt so grateful for Nate and his inspiration to get us up and going and out of the house. I've struggled in this department this week. We came home, got showered and dressed (I ran off to meet with the Presidency for a few minutes) then we all went out to Texas Roadhouse for dinner! And of course a movie night with Dollar Tree Treats to top off the evening. What's a fun day without a movie night with treats? We watched Cool Runnings. Lots of fun. 12-29-17
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