first blog of December

Yesterday, my Christmas shopping began. What an exciting time!

I usually shop online but the stores with free shipping were out of everything I knew I wanted so I had to get out of the house for a while.

Here's the rundown: I went to toys r us and got jake the speed racer helmet and steering wheel that make noise, and let see, oh a mach 6 with a movie scene inside this little view finder thing, and a double pack of the mach 5 and racer x cars, a sponge bob bath set, and a speed racer light up poncho, and I think that might be it, besides the video game which I think I already mentioned previously.

Sage got a dish set, glow station, drawing pad with colored pencils and paint brushes with paint inside, socks with the individual toes, since I lost my (old) ones as soon as she found them... and one of those bath sets with the soap and stuff. Thats all I remember right now...

I got Mycah two Junie B books, dishes, Hannah Montana brush set, the same paint brushes as Sage but a different coloring book, a Hannah Montana dress up set, Prince Caspian (movie) and something else I can't remember right now lol.

I figured since I was given the opportunity to shop I might as well get some things for #4, so I got her an outfit, a sheet and blanket set that is the tiddlywinks ladybug theme, some soap diapers and wipes.

So I spent about 10 total hours walking around Target Friday, including work the night before.

I have ot say that I was not looking forward to Thursday night at work, I thought about calling out so many times but since I missed a day last week, I couldn't do it. The night turned out fine, even though it was someone I usually don't get along with mixed with two trucks. I was proud of myself that night because although I was in stationery until about 7:15 or so, it only took me about 4 hours to push it all. It was one of those nights where the repacks kept coming so I had very little time to start pushing, I remembered from my last mistake and got two pallets for backstock, and by the time my offsite came and I sorted out all the sporting goods from my repacks (urrgh) and the few boxes of Christmas, it was break time. Then I put the backstock I did manage to get during the truck unload on a pallet and did half a cart of pens and it was lunch, so by the time I got started it was almost 5 and I was done about two hours later.

About 6, Karli was ready to go. I had this bump right under my rib cage that was her bootie I guess, but she was sticking out in such a way that I couldn't bend forward, so when I was driving if I was going to turn right, like at my exit, it was near impossible to lean forward to see around the car that was waiting to turn left. Boy oh boy. But, I have less than 50 days now. I can't believe it. I'm fine with the idea of leaving work for a while, my brain is wrapped around that just fine, but as far as having a baby in the house...nope, not processing.

The whole pregnancy thing seems a little routine and normal, but I am going to have a major kind of thing going on when I can't move for two weeks (basically) and I'll be woken up every few hours to feed someone.

I'm totally looking forward to it, though.

So now for parent teacher conferences:

Sage's went fine. She is a perfectionist and over achiever, which we already knew. The teacher didn't use those words, but I live with her, so take it from me. :) She had 2s, 3s and 4s on everything on her report card.

Mycah had all 1s and 2s. Not so good but I was expecting it. She will never be a perfect student, but thats okay with me.

I don't have a solid stance on education, really. I think some people get it and some don't. Everyone has their own purpose in life and she will do something else great with her life besides making As on her tests.

I was a combination of them two. Well, like Sage I'm still pretty anal about things. One example for her is that she always says "name, color, cut, paste" before she starts her homework, and once she forgot her name and you would have thought the world was about to explode.

But, I never made really good grades. i was always average and never cared to be on the honor rolls or anything of that sort. It seemed to be a lot of work and I wasn't that motivated.

So thats our family update...and now Armando is on...