These days...

Time is flying by so fast that my lips are chapped and my hair is blown back into a tangled mess like Thing One and Thing Two.

It's so bad that I don't even have time to make my checklists, much less check anything off.

It's so bad that I went to bed last night without washing the dishes -just left them right there in the sink! Even left milk in a sippy cup!!

It's so bad that I skipped my shower this morning because it would save me 10 minutes of my day.

It's so bad that we still haven't watched my favorite show, which is on Mondays - AND IT'S FRIDAY!

It's so bad that there's less than a week till Christmas and I still have half of my Christmas shopping to do! And if you know me, you know it couldn't get much worse than that.

So why am I sitting here blogging, you ask? Well, because once I have time to make a checklist then I can check this off right away. Which will inspire me to start the laundry and vacuum the living room. Which may even lead to a fleeting desire to tackle the bathrooms. Fortunately I will be rescued from that urge by the need to fold said laundry and having sat down to do so, I will be overwhelmed by a new desire - to never get up again IN MY LIFE!

So on to the task at hand!

These days...

Annie is enthralled with Christmas. She's been playing with her manger scene puzzle and our olive wood nativity set. There have been some distressing moments - "MOM! RILEY'S EATING BABY JESUS!!" It's also hard to distinguish between Mary and the shepherds, which doesn't sit well with her. But she figures it out and gets everybody in the right spot. I'm amazed at her. You should hear her read "Olivia Helps with Christmas."

Riley is mildly interested in Christmas. It's not much fun because I won't let him clack the glass Christmas tree balls together. So he's always having to be sneaky about it. Poor kid doesn't understand glitter yet and has no idea how I always know when he's been naughty. He likes to tell me "no touch!" with a very stern grunt and then point to the tree. Speaking of the tree...

Benjy won the annual Big Tree Little Tree Debate this year, keeping his winning streak alive. And he did it with style! I admit, I was a little over-zealous with my stance. I wanted a small tree to sit on top of the corner coffee table so that it would be out of Riley's reach. Benjy countered with "Well, we could put a tree behind the table." Really? You would go so low as to hide half of the tree behind furniture? And how would that help with Riley? Then he would have the perfect hiding spot to be naughty. So now we have a 10 foot tree taking up half of the living room (He would say I'm exaggerating, but I only barely refrained from saying it takes up half of the HOUSE! And the 10 foot part is a verifiable fact. No exclamation point needed.)

I celebrated my 32nd birthday on Monday. Well, actually there was some celebrating on the Saturday before and there will be another party tomorrow. But on the actual day, I had a big gaggle of friends over for a Christmas Cookie Exchange. I've eaten enough fudge this week to fill my caloric quotas for the year. Goodbye eating - I'll see you when I'm 33.

So that's what's going on around here these days. The sippy cup did get washed out this afternoon, but the shower... I think I'll go Christmas shopping instead.