glimpse into my future

Today is Friday and I am home by myself with A.  Yes, most of America is off to honor the new year, but B is at work.  This will hopefully be my life at least 3 days a week after the baby is born.  Well, certain aspects of it; the waking up at 5:15 am can go.  I looked at the clock at 8:15 to decide if it was OK to call my friend yet and realized how much we already had accomplished.  We had

• eaten breakfast- A had 2 breakfasts- cereal with daddy and then grapefruit and peanut butter toast with me
• watched a lovely episode of "The Fresh Beat Band" where Twist is a robot, I believe this might have been the 20th time that we watched this "new one"
• folded and put away laundry
• taken all of the pillow cases off of the bed to build a pillow fort
• called Daddy 3 times at A's insistence (1. say good morning 2. tell him to clean the fan or throw it away because it might make our pillow fort dirty and 3. to apologize for ripping his magazine)  I'm sure he'll be happy to have us home more too hehe
• taken showers
• gotten dressed
• played with some toys

Some of the most important decisions

• pink or white lotion after our shower
• blue or yellow cup for breakfast
• pee pee in mommy or A's bathroom
• doggy or robot Fresh Beat Band

That was all 5 hours before writing this blog.  What an exhausting, random, yet beautiful life. In the words of our favorite show-- it was a great day, a perfect way, to spend some time together.

calming chocolate

Though I feel that Christmas is the best time of year, it is definitely a busy busy time.  We're all running around shopping, wrapping, and visiting.  A and I have definitely been doing all of these things to get ready for the big day.  However, today was also the first snow of the year.  Yes, it was less than an inch, but it was magical to our little 2 year old.  She put on her snow pants and dove in the snow.  Her favorite part was eating it... not my idea of fun but then again neither is watching the same Freshbeat Band episode daily.  After about 25 minutes when her little face was as red as could be and my legs were frozen thanks to the lack of warm maternity pants to fit over this huge baby belly, we came inside.  We warmed up with her first mug of hot chocolate.  For about 5 minutes, we both sat by the tree and fire place listening to Christmas music and enjoying each other.  Truly beautiful.  Now, if only it lasted longer than 5 minutes before ornaments were being torn from the tree, Baby Bella the cabbage patch had to have her diaper changed, and the requests for Fresh Beat Band were coming.