Christmas Is in the Air!

We got home from Iowa on Sunday afternoon. It was a pretty uneventful drive. Oh yeah. Except the part when Jacob looked into the backseat to discover Daniel brushing his teeth! What a hilarious kid! He got into his suitcase and took it out of the plastic bag it was in without us even noticing. That's what you get where you're belting out Christmas songs!

Monday I decided to get out the Christmas tree. I was feeling kind of bummed because I don't like when Thanksgiving is so late. Everyone was posting pictures of their trees and I wanted mine up! I decided that it wasn't in my best interest to carry the tree up the stairs, but Jacob wasn't home. I sort of though maybe I could do it without killing my back, so I dragged the box across the basement. I then decided I was not getting up the stairs with that thing. Last year the box fell apart so I duct taped it back together...but it all fell apart again. Finally, common sense took over and I realized I could carry it up one piece at a time. Duh!

Amazingly, it only took me maybe 15 minutes to get it up this year. I'm pretty sure it took WAY longer last year because I had never done it before. I was pretty proud. I even managed to get it decorated before Daniel woke up.

He was very excited about the "Big-a tree!" (He likes to add A's to the end of words lately).









I waited until yesterday to put up my other decorations. I carried them up in small loads in a laundry basket. I didn't put everything out, but I like how everything turned out.

Today, I dropped Lola off at the mechanic. The day we were leaving for Iowa, she decided to start making a weird humming sound, so we decided to take Jacob's car. I'm glad we did. It turned out to be the alternator going bad. Got that all fixed up and kissed a little more money farewell. I really like the place we take our cars though. They are so friendly, and pretty fast too.

I'm feeling some relief as I think I've finally picked a new insurance plan for Daniel and I. It'll cost more, but it's going to cost more no matter what. I feel pretty at peace with it though. I've researched the heck out of stuff and talked to 3 different companies today. This new stuff really sucks, but I'm pretty excited that as of January 1st I will officially have maternity insurance again! :)

We've got snow on the way. 60 degrees today. 30 degrees tomorrow and snow tomorrow night and Friday. Bah Humbug. Guess I'll suck it up and enjoy some Christmas music and maybe even bake something.