cookies a bazillion down 4 more kinds to go

cookie baking is moving along. i have 4 kinds to go and i will be done. i still need to bake another pecan pie for christmas but that is easy. i have most of my shopping done and so far paid for. left to buy a couple of gift cards and toys for the nieces and nephew. still no list so i am tearing my hair out since i want to be done early this year and enjoy the holidays and not have to deal with traffic. i hate holiday traffic. hopefully i can get done by mid december and really enjoy christmas.

november = cookies

now through mid decmber i will spend my weekends baking cookies and wrapping gifts. i have a huge chunk of shopping done and really only have to buy gifts for the nieces and nephew. 1 is easy this is her first christmas and she will be more interested in the wrapping paper than the gifts. the other 2 are in the picky stage. not everything will be liked. i have some things for b but m is hard this year. she turns 13 in feb and is in between kid and teen. still likes some toys but also wanting some more grown up stuff. where did the time go??

thanksgiving this year will be at my hubby's uncles house. i can't wait. i love the holidays. hubby not so much. he will go and he will have a good time but he goes grudgingly. we agreed this year to go to his family's instead of mine. that is fine with me. my family and holidays have been rough since my brother's marriage ended. i seem to get the short end of the stick if any at all. i try not to be bitter but sometimes that is really hard. so i am looking forward to his crazy family and enjoying the day. i am off on friday so i can really relax and enjoy the weekend as well

25 years

where did the time go . i went to my 25 year class reunion saturday night. it was fun and oh so surreal. same people just older. the women all pretty much looked the same no big changes. the men well the single and more recently married one look the same. the rest who have been married a long time well i would not have recognised them at all. good thing we had name tags. luckily for everyone the venue had tv's near the bar outside our room because that was where everyone ended up watching playoff baseball. our phillies lost but we all partied on. afterward i crashed at my parents house then went home sunday morning. glad i went and maybe i will even go to another one.

it's a phillies phriday

the only good thing about fall is playoff baseball. made even better by your favorite team making the playoffs and history in the first game. i love the phillies. been a fan since childhood and while i don't watch every game i usually know how the phillies are doing each year. most years have been disappointing. even the 10 years i had tickets we never made the playoffs. i gave up my tickets when my dad (and date for the games) took a job with the phillies as an usher. for him this is a dream come true. he gets to go to every home game and all of the playoff games during this magical time. so here's hoping the phillies go all the way and win the world series again in 2010!!!!

barking + snot = miserable

so where have i been lately. mostly trying to sleep with a neighbor who ties his pitbull out all night while he goes to work. the dog barks all night long making my dogs bark as well. if we are lucky the dog stays in it's yard when we are not like this past friday the dog got loose around 7 pm and finally caught and returned home around 8 am sat morning no sleep for us.
also hubby and i babysat our 7 month old niece S. she is cute as a bug and full of them when she was with us. then left many of her bugs behind so hubby and i had a cold for the last week. she also made sure to chase both of my dogs and find every thing possible that was even remotely dangerous in our house. glass top on old navy trunk moved, piggy banks moved, globe of seashells also moved bird in cage all weekend so she wasn't squished and the cat hiding in the basement. i had a blast even if i got sick and had to rearrange my house. now i really really really want a baby. hopefully trying will get back on track now that august and sept are over. (no period in aug and never ending one in sept)

wow it is august

where did july go?? after our anniversary the month flew by. i spent a week preping for vacation at work. then off for a whole week. yes this was exciting not because we went anywhere but because i finally had enough vacation time to take 1 full week off for the first time since starting this job 5 years ago. yes i mean 5 years. i have had long weekends but this was awesome. no place to go hanging out with hubby and the critters. the best part no drive to work. i cried sunday night knowing monday i had to get up for the daily commute.
returning to work was ok. the boss and i spent the week catching me up and preping for his vacation. not that i don't like my boss but his vacation is great for me. while he is gone things are set up for the guys to be busy and gone all day and the very best part .... OVERTIME. 5 hours while he is away. next week is my birthday and i am dreading and excited for it. dreading because i am another year older and no kid and excited beacuse it is my birthday!!!

1 year

hubby and i got married 1 year ago. best day of my life. not much has changed over the last year. we are still happy and so far can pay the bills. my hope for the next year is a job for hubby and a baby on the way or even better a new baby in the house. love you honey happy anniversary.