Holiday Randomness

Nathan said to me, "I don't want to go to college." When I asked why he said he has other places to go. Like McDonald's. Oh, well that explains a lot.
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Looking back at this time last year I see I was as frazzled as ever. And here I thought it was worse this year. Nope the same. Ok, maybe a little worse this year. It's hard work every day with two little ones under your feet so add holiday madness and I can barely keep up. In fact I lost it and barked at Nathan for not helping clean up the living room tonight and sent him to his room. Usually I will cajole and ask nicely, over and over. But this time I my patience ran out around lunch time so his answer of "I don't want to" left him in the hallway screaming for mommy.

In short, I am tired. I was lucky to be healthy as the seasons changed but come Turkey Day I came down with mastitis (nursing moms will know - not fun). That cleared up just in time for a quick but furious stomach bug. Then I thought I would top it off with an annoying dry cough. I'm actually amazed the cough is only catching up to me now - the whole house has been coughing for at least six weeks. I'm sure if my defenses weren't down from the first calamity, the rest wouldn't have happened. Blah.

Anyway, all the winter blahness hasn't slowed me down too much. I did a photo shoot with a good friend over the weekend. Friends of ours are looking to adopt and need to raise funds so my friend was kind enough to think up this plan. We shot holiday portraits and donated half the moolah to the cause. It was a (long) fun day. Lots of experience to be had taking pictures of families all day. The most interesting take away: the bribes. Ice cream, slushies, candy apples . . . anything to make the kid smile. I can relate to this deep need to just get one stinkin' shot for the holiday cards. I didn't get what I was looking for myself in terms of pictures. But luckily I snap pics often and have a good collection to pull from. But getting that one shot is so rewarding . . .

And now on to other things. Parties and the like. Personally, I'm looking forward to when it's all done (for the most part). Being in NY, with the brothers, trading Secret Santa gifts, watching the Muppet Family Christmas. That is my happy place. I can't wait to be there.