December thus far!

Yes, I know that December 1st is today but in preparation for this first weekend of December it has been quite the ride.

The day after we got home from Thanksgiving with my parents, yes it was a blast and nice to get away. We got home Friday afternoon at 4 and I went to bed at 6:30, and slept until 8 am the next morning. I didn't eat anything during that time, just drank water, I was just plain exhausted, and Dave lovingly understood, as always. Amazingly enough since Saturday I have increased my eating habits, and having seconds and thirds on food that before I could only eat half of one serving. So jelly bean is finally getting the nutritions it needs. I know it's enjoying them because tonight after eating chicken enchiladas it started moving a ton. It was so cool.

Saturday we set up the tree, we are using my parents table top tree, because ours is about 5 ft around and would fill up our apartment. Yeah it's tiny. I was so pre-occupied working on Bazaar stuff that we didn't get the decorations up until Monday night, and that made for a fun FHE. I love how I strung the lights all around the room, it's super fun when just the lights are on at night.

As I mentioned I was working on stuff for the Bazaar. This Saturday (in two days) December 3rd I am involved in a Christmas Bazaar at Cheney High School. Me and a good friend Lin rented a booth to sell our stuff. I am excited, it will be a good experience since I am just used to selling my items at our Ransom Made Events. Speaking of which, That same day, I am also selling my items at the Ransom Made Event in Kennewick. I had to have everything ready by Thanksgiving so I could drop it off when I visited. I never got around to making my Nativity banners or cards, and so I had to finish those this week and mail them out in time to get there by Friday afternoon for our Friday night sale. Yes I will be happy when this weekend is over. It's kinda of exciting to do these events, obviously a little more exciting to see what sells. Sometimes I can sell $50 worth of stuff and other times $200 worth of stuff, so it's pretty crazy. If I make $50 this weekend I will be happy since whatever I make goes to buying Christmas presents and I think we can afford the girls presents with that amount. =)

I am posting pictures of my cards because I was happy about them, especially the Santa and so if you are interested in having personalized Christmas cards, I can cut you a deal. I normally sell them for 50 cents a piece, but if you buy more than 4 or 5 I can cut you a deal. Most of my ideas sadly the cute ones I have found in a magazine and I adapt it to what resources I have. Tonight as I was finishing up some cards our maintenance guy came over to fix our fridge, i found out he is LDS, super nice guy, and he was quizzing me on my cricut and the best stuff. I told him what I know, (which is enough for anyone buying) and he was sold. (I did used to sell them for a living, and did a really good job, he told me I should work for there company and get commission for selling.). I did also tell him he should take his wife with him one of these days to a craft store and kind of get an idea of what she wants, because if you want a cricut you know exactly what you want. Cricut Create, Cricut Expressions or Cricut Imagine... I will tell you this, if you don't have one BUY ONE. The money you spend on it will pay for it's self so fast. I have had mine for almost 5 years and it works great. Believe me I am wanting it to die so that I can get a newer model since mine was the first model ever, but it treats me good! Even if you just use it to cut out letters, numbers and shapes for kids school projects, it's awesome!

The Sami solution has become loads better. After much advice from friends and encouragers, I've discovered that I am partly at fault for this problem, that it's not just her. I have not been giving her the attention she needs. I guess since she is the first child I get to learn all the hard stuff with her, she is the guinea pig. It has gotten better since now when she informs me she has to go potty I ask her if she wants me to go in with her. So I do, and I sing the ABC's with her, sometimes a couple times, while she fully empties out her bladder. Than I keep my patience with her while we put on panties, and pants and than finish the potty process instead of losing my cool wondering why a 4 year old needs assistance, in reality, she doesn't need assistance, she just needs attention. I love my Sami, she is sweet and smart and one of the best things of my day. She is always, ALWAYs asking me what I am doing. Most of the time she knows but it's the start of our grown-up conversations, and I enjoy it. I am learning to be a mom right along with my kids. I have a feeling as soon as I have this baby if not sooner, ( I don't want it sooner) I will be potty training Daphne so I am hopping this fiasco with Sami gets easier quick.

To top it off Thursday night as I was soaking in the tub, and about to read we hear an "Daddy" from Sami and so he runs into check and thinking that there lamp went off, well no, much much worse. Daphne pooped on the carpet. She stripped off her snuggie, took off her diaper and pooped in the corner of the room like a dog. I was summoned out of the tub to assist. Dave collected Daphne wiped off the majority of the poop and put her in my tub, than I dressed in my towel cleaned up the mess. Grabbed the Lysol, some napkins (cuz who wants to wash poop out of wash cloths), the carpet cleaner and went to work. I felt like I was cleaning up after a dog. Luckily there were only 3 spots to clean, and sadly enough a clean diaper... that she had taken off. Daphne as Dave said is in hot water, it was disgusting. We said what we always say at the end of a fiasco with the girls, "We're Parents".

I am hoping that December gets a little less stressful and a lot more fun. Good news though Dave is in his finals week and had a exam (not a final) yesterday for his Java Programming class and found out today that he scored a 106% what an awesome husband I have. He is stressing right now and dealing well, a lot better than I would be. He has a 3-D animation project due Monday, it's his final. Than he has his Math final Monday (YUCK), and than his programming final Wednesday but the project due Thursday. So by Thursday night he will be DONE with his first quarter at Eastern. While he is off school he will be busying himself drawing up a submission for the Comic Con in Seattle for this March. We are going, just me and him, I enjoy it because I get to meet cool characters like Chewbacca, and eat at the Cheese cake factory. We don't spend the night we just drive up and drive back in one day. The girls will stay with my parents for the day in Kennewick.

Have fun and DECK THE HALLS!!!