keronnotes.blogg.se - Michiko panic mode

Darin stayed up with me acting as my assistant and wrapping all the other present and decorating. I stayed up til 2:30am making a giant bean bag chair. It feels like my boys are truly growing up.

today is George's 10th Bday!! Double digits.

It was kind of crazy but I'm really glad we did it. At one point we maybe had 35 people at our house.

I did host a primary teacher appreciation open house at our house a week ago.

also I feel like so many of the things I'm doing right now involve Christmas secrets so there isn't much to say.

I ran three times last week and that felt like a crazy accomplishment. The mile-a-day challenge sadly got swallowed up by Darin's finals and working every single day the week before last.

I feel like that really sums up most of my life lately.

Darin was sort of around (always with some annoying due dat looming). Had a job lined up on Friday but stayed home all the other days. I think we missed this tradition last year and don't want to miss out again this year.

We need to find a time to go up to see the lights at Temple Square.

Christmas Carol at the Hale Center Theater.

So excited for Rachel & Ken and Christine to arrive this week.

I fear they're going to get too old to be any good for giving away soon. I made a bunch of mint surprise cookies but haven't packaged them up yet.

Friends Christmas party tonight - costumes, white elephant gifts, and all.

NO WAY!!! Hear me! I don't exactly have a plan for getting it done early, yet, but I know I must come up with one asap

Finish up Christmas shopping and START WRAPPING!!! There is absolutely no way this is going to get left until the last minute again this year.

I have a lot of Indian colleagues so the accent and inflections of the dialog are very familiar to me. Started listening to Cutting for Stone.Enjoyed discovering a few new-to-me items from the maternity boxes.But at least the pressure's off for the main things and it's just the extras now. But more time means more ideas which means continuous shopping. If Christmas had come already I could have been done. Did lots of Christmas shopping & shipped off all out-of-town packages.It was held at the Masonic Temple which was beautiful and intriguing.

Helped put on a successful Lower Lights Christmas concert.