Ahhhhhh....... made it thru the week! And no work for a week!!! I have to go in next Friday at least for a 1/2 day because that is all the vacation time I have. I tell you having a kid drains your vacation time! I guess I should've expected as much.

We went to Mancino's for supper tonight. We had 2 free grinders so by time we paid for drinks and Piper's meal it only cost $6! You can't beat that. The last time we were there they messed up our order so they gave us some free grinders for the next time! Worked out great. Then we did what I have been waiting to do all Christmas season. We went thru the drive thru light up display at Franke Park. Piper really liked it. She was babblin' thru the whole thing. Ashley got her out of her seat and let her sit on her lap so she could see better. Finally by the end she got that you had to look from side to side to see all the displays. Tomorrow night we hope to go downtown and see the big Santa and the Wolf and Dessauer elfs are in a guys front window downtown. It's suppose to be 51 here tomorrow so hopefully tomorrow evening will be warmer too! But the lights tonight were pretty cool and Piper thought so too! (and I think the big kids liked it too!!!)

Tomorrow we are taking our neighbor - his name is Donny - to McDonalds for a Christmas lunch. He is so funny. He is probably about a 12 year old living in a 51 year old man's body. He lives by himself and does a very good job with it. He has a job and takes good care of his house. Well, over the last year or so we have become friends with him. Over the summer he came down when we tore out all the bushes out front and cut some down and helped Steve and my dad with all the brush. He worked hard because Steve told him we would take him to McDonalds for supper and even let him super size it!!! I told Steve the other night to stop and tell Donny that we want to take him to lunch Saturday for Christmas. See, the last time we went the big kids weren't at our house that weekend so they didn't get to eat with Donny. He was nothing but a pure gentleman while he was with us. He got the highchair for Piper and he ate all his meal! We had a pretty good time - so it's time to take him out again.

I tell you at work we have the coolest new thing. It's a switchplate cover that tells you the temperature and the humidity level. Is that cool or what. The only thing is it's a single switch. But I bought one for our room. I love it! This time of year I an obessed with the humidity level in our house. I never thought much about it till I had a baby last year. Now, I check it all the time. I know, I know I am crazy.

You know me these days with my "green" obession. Well, for Christmas my really good friend got me the coolest things. I got a book on all the uses for baking soda, a big box of baking soda and a book on 1001 little ways to save the planet. I love it all! She said it wasn't very personal but useful - bull crap that is very personal for me right now with my obession I got going on!

Christmas is getting closer. I realized last night that I have more presents then I thought to wrap..... oh and when I haven't figured out yet.....