2 down 2 to go

Jess and Reilly came over Christmas Eve. Aidan signaled it was time for them to go by barfing a little after 9pm. He continued to do so right up to 5am. Exhausted doesn't even cover it. Poor Abby up bright and early to open presents only to find the 3 of us in our bed completely incoherent. We got up and showered and got gifts opened and I went back to sleep until 3pm.
Yesterday Nick and Ash came over and I awoke this morning at 1:42am by the sound of my husband barfing. Awesome. Such a GREAT Christmas thankyouverymuch. So that leaves me and Abby.... just waiting to see who goes down next. And get this- I DIDN'T TAKE ONE SINGLE PICTURE of when the girls' were over. DOH.

Supposed to work today and I ended up driving in because I bought cupcakes for a coworkers birthday, and I have tomorrow off to save on daycare $$ so I didn't want the cupcakes sitting around here until Thursday...PLUS I couldn't remember my password to do payroll. I didn't even shower- just showed up in all my beauty. cough cough.
So... unplanned day off I'm taking down the Christmas tree and trying to CLEAN. This house is a mess and it's so completely overwhelming. I would almost shell out money to hire someone to come and clean and organize. almost.

HO HO HO

I need one of the following a) more time or b) to be able to sleep for approximately 3 days.
Last year Rick and I wrapped everything on Christmas Eve. This year I VOWED never again but by doing so I have been wrapping for two weeks straight.
Had the kids' piano recital Monday night. Tuesday we went to Zoo lights and dinner at Skyline Burgers. We bought some groupon restaurant.com deals so we have a few vouchers to look forward to. Last night I finally started organizing the photos from the last 3 months for their albums and our vacation (as if I have time for that)
Rick is working Christmas Eve and I'm FINALLY going to get around to baking with the kiddos.

Blessed.

Stop the ride I want to get off...

You know that book called "I was a good mom before I had kids?" That is me right now. On the day before our boy's birthday I'm scrambling to wrap his presents. It's chaos I tell you. I have at least 5 or 6 lists going right now- a grocery list, a to-do list, a Christmas list, a school list for the kids, a work list and something else.

Anyhow... I amazed I made it through LAST week. WHEW. Month end at work, 2012 sales planning with my boss, year end, benefits renewal, and from now until March it's our busy season... PLUS cleaning the house, grocery shopping and preparing meals in the evenings and getting things ready for the weekend. My annual girlfriends' brunch/ornament exchange was last Saturday and Aidan's bday party was on Sunday. Speaking of Sunday- when we dropped Abby off at her Sunday School class we were asked if she was home schooled!! How cool is that? Sadly she isn't... but they commented how great she does with her weekly bible verses.

In other random news, girly girl has been sleeping in until 7 when I actually have to go in and wake her up. This is unheard of in the history of Abby. She's had a big few weeks mentally and another growth spurt so it's nice that she is getting the recommended amount of sleep like the rest of the kids her age get. She's counting money, telling time, doing multiplication etc. She just keeps growing up and I keep feeling like it all happens when I blink.

and our little guy is now 5.