Our Tree is Decorated!

Our tree is finally decorated! You have no idea how happy it makes me. We also now have lights around the house and it looks nice. We can finally find our house on our very dark street. Putting up all of the lights made Mackenzie one happy little girl. It's so nice to see her get all excited over the holidays. And this year is the first year Jackson has gotten excited over the small things. The lights, the tree, the music box with the train going round the tree, the Grinch doll that sings, and I could go on and on. I am trying to put the negative things w/ work behind me and move forward with a positive and happy attitude. I just have to trust that all of the financial woes right now will all work out. I don't think I can stress out anymore than I have been. I can't let it affect mine and Lee's relationship and certainly not let it trickle down to the kids.

I finally put all of the Christmas cards out in the mail yesterday. I have to tell you it took a long time to do all of them. I did our first ever Christmas letter. It ended up taking up 2 pages but that just shows that we don't lead dull lives. I then had different matching appliques (can you believe I even know what that word is????) and put them on the bottom of the 2nd pages and then glue them to the front of the envelopes. I am just praying that they make it through the mail system. Anyone who reads this please let me know if the cute little things made it intact on the envelope. It would just satisfy my curiosity. Printing out the pictures though took forever. I used the photo printer and I am very impress with the quality of pictures. Too bad it's just slow. And when you print out as many as I did, well, it was a slow process. I am very proud of the final results though. I am not an artsy person and certainly don't take time to do crafts but it turned out nice I think. Oh... I mispelled my biological sister Kristan's name in the first set I did so I had to correct it. So when addressing the envelopes I had to make sure that I did the right envelopes for the Mitchell families to go w/ the corrected copies. I'm sure they wouldn't have cared or maybe even noticed but I did.

Today at work has been semi-okay. It quite frankly just sucks. I am doing my job and doing it well but there is not enthusiasm. I really don't care too much if the building burned down. And if for some crazy reason it does I did not do it. This is just a vent and not the page of a pyromaniac. Although I did catch the bush outside on fire a few weeks back, but it was entirely accidental and thanks to Jana pulling up to the office she saw it and mentioned it to me and I put the fire out. It was a tad comical but it could have gone sooo wrong.

Why is my house always a disaster? Why can't clothes fold themselves? Why can't the kids always put back their things exactly where they go? Why can't the dishwasher unload itself? Why can't the swiffer mop the kitchen floor? Why oh why? It seems just as I get things semi-decent (or Lee does) then bam! we're hit with another disaster. I do have to say growing up my mom was really strict on how clean our rooms were, etc. At some point though she gave up. I honestly don't know how she could stand it. I remember my room was covered completely with things. I mean you'd have to wade through it all just to make it to my bed. It was awful. Mackenzie's room gets like that sometimes. And this is after she's cleaned it or we have for her. It drives me nuts.

I've gotten into a cooking kick lately. I have no idea why but I've been cooking dinner more often (or throwing stuff together I should say) and baking. I have to say the chocolate oatmeal peanut butter no bake cookies though are the best thing in the entire world. It took a while for me to figure out the receipe I was using listed milk instead of evaporated milk and that's why mine always had major issues but I've got it down pat now and wow are they good. Mackenzie doesn't like them but Lee loves them. I gave a piece to Jackson yesterday and he kept coming back for more, more, more. So freaking adorable! I just want to eat him up.

I'm ready to go home but I can't. Even though it's warm outside I just want to curl up at home. I wish we had a real fireplace instead of this fake electric one. Yeah, we have a fake electric fireplace that came with a remote. Yes, a remote control fireplace. It just sounds so cheap. Ever had a neighbor that drove you nuts and you wanted to hide from her but you couldn't b/c you live on the same street? Yeah, I do. She is about to drive me insane. I can't lie to her and tell her I can't watch her kids b/c my car is in the driveway. I wish I could firmer with people. I can't. I'm a sucker. I may complain and talk all tough to others but when it comes down to it I'm not so tough.

Okay I'm off to do a little bit of work. And eat a chocolate oatmeal peanut butter no bake cookie. Yummmmmmmy!