Holly-daze

Fa la la la la... I just couldn't get into the holidays this year for some reason. Oh, I know what it was, I'm too busy. I almost titled this post, "Portrait of a Working Mother in 2009" but then felt guilty not having something about Thanksgiving, Christmas, et al in the post name. Feeling guilty about sums it up though these days. Between teaching 32 hours/week (including a new plan which requires hours and hours of prep work), I am back in graduate school finishing my M.Ed. It's wrestling season so Bo has practice 3X/week from 6-7:15 and Robert is Mr. Wells Fargo which means long hours and crazy commuting. I'm really tired. It's all that I can do most nights to throw takeout in the microwave and turn Cartoon Network on for the boy so I can pay bills, do laundry or pour myself a huge glass of wine.

Gram and Papa came up for Thanksgiving which was super fun. Gram made gingerbread houses with the boys and all of us went out to eat a lot which made me happy. Oh, and Robert got the H1N1 that week. The following week a frozen pipe burst in the attic which landed us in a hotel for a few nights. Admittedly, I loved that portion of the inconvenience.

Christmas time this year brought snow, ice skating, more legos than necessary and a trip to Christmas Mass which has not happened since before we had kids. Honestly, I'm surprised that the church didn't open up and suck us right into the bowels of hell. Upon leaving Robert said to me, "I would rather run on the treadmill for 60 minutes every Sunday that do that again." Nice.

We're heading into the New Year - 2010 and while life is really good it's only going to get crazier. We are listing our house come spring and moving upward on onward. Where? We don't know- just bigger and closer to...anything.

Goodbye 2009 with your manic schedule and many blessings. Enjoy this video of me taking the boys ice skating which was just before I took them out to lunch and shopping due to overcompensating a la working mommy.