Its all good…

sure are cute…

That’s what my Tuesday before Christmas was.  Started off with Alex visiting the doctor cause he has this stuffy head coughy thing that he just can’t seem to beat.  Then I had the GREAT idea to bake four different kinds of cookies for tomorrow.  It wasn’t until halfway through my batch of shortbread I remember a crucial detail… I HATE BAKING.  It is such a chore - but I was committed.  So, four hours and lots of flour, sugar and stuff later I have myself Mexican Wedding Cookies, Shortbread, Chocolate Chip Cookies and No-Bake Peanut Butter Balls.  Tasty treat all around.

So, just as I was thinking all was on track for dinner, going to look at lights after and preparing for the departure of the op-ops - Alex gets sick.  Moaning, crying and oh yea - vomitting sick.  Is he sick?  Is it a reaction to the amoxicillin that he took an hour ago?  We still don’t know.  This all goes down while Gordon is trying to grill dinner and Max refuses to nap and is screaming his head off because he is all sorts of pissed at Mama.  Good times…  sigh…

After the dust settled and Alex conked out and Max conked out and we were able to eat the dinner that was still pretty good - I thought to myself, as I often do on days like this one…  You beat me today, Tuesday, but we will live to battle again.  And if this is what a bad day looks like to me, well then I have a pretty damn good life.

Peace.

Brand new this week at 2peas is some Christmas Sprinkle Twinkle Wordart and the individual paper sets from my Everyday Inspiration Collection!

And if you’re looking for some last-minute gift ideas or Christmas projects, check out these!

Printable Holiday Takeout Container {.99}

Printable Pitter Pat Pocket Calendar Cover {.99}

Printable Christmas Paper Chain Project {$4.00}

Sprinkle Twinkle Treat Topper {.99}

Sprinkle Twinkle Christmas Wordart {$4.00}

Everyday Inspiration Paper Sets - {$4.00} each

Hey Everyone!  Christmas is in full swing here at the Fenwick household, what with the in laws here and a good 10 inches of snow being dumped on us this weekend.  Maybe it’ll even stick around for Santa’s visit - wouldnt’ that be magical?

Anyways, I have my Everyday Inspiration paper sets up at two peas.  I’ll probably do a preview post later for that, as well as some kickin’ sprinkle twinkle wordart for the season.  My reason for this post is a new favorite song - it’s by Pink and I heard it when watching the hills the other day.  (yeah - i suck and watch that stupid show)  Anyways - this one’s for you, Denise!!!

My in-laws are called Mop Mop and Pop Pop, so when they are together - they are op ops.  They arrived last night at 1am on a flight from Cali, stayed in a hotel so they could get some sort of sleep and me and the monkey boys went and picked them up this morning.  I haven’t had to worry about my children since.  Alex is completely and totally wrapped up in them and they with him.  And when they aren’t lavishing attention on the oh-so-deprived (eye roll here) Alexander, they are snuggling up with my little Maxie.  The kiddos enjoy this luxury with my parents on a regular basis - although it is only for a couple of hours at a time.  The op ops will be here for about a week this go-around and I feel as though it will be a restful week   Here’s hoping… hehehe

Alex had a FANTASTIC time at Chuck E Cheese last night.  He left with a bunch of silly little prizes and big old grin on his face   I had a doctor’s appointment at the hospital yesterday, so I thought a lot about the day Alex was born while I was sitting and waiting.  I wish I had journaled during that time.  I think I’m going to try and start a memory journal now, even though it’s four years later so that the little stuff I do remember doesn’t get lost too.

The first thing I remember about his birthday, the thing that stands out the most is the cry.  I’ve heard talk of this whole baby’s first cry experience but I thought it was all just talked up to be a big deal.  I am not a mushy person, I don’t like being pregnant and up until that point, I was really afraid that I wouldnt’ bond with my baby - that I wouldn’t love my baby.  And then, the doctor pulled him out in the operating room and there it was - the cry.  It was such an intense rush of emotion it was like a little LOVE bomb went off in the room.  I ceased to worry about not loving this little baby and started to worry that I would love him too much.  Sigh…

I compare that experience with Max of course.  Max’s birth was sooo different.  I had a planned c/s with Max versus my emergency c/s with Alex so there was so much anticipation for the surgery.  The second time around, you know what is going to happen and for me, that was worse than the unknown.  I was a ball of nerves the morning of Max’s birth and to be honest, I hadn’t thought much about what was going to happen after the whole cutting me open part.  There it was though, the moment - the cry.  It was so different this time, such a huge relief - I hadn’t even realized that I was worried about him being okay.  You have one child that is healthy and happy - there is no way that I could be that lucky to get ANOTHER one.   This time though, I was worried - I didn’t have the crazy love bomb go off.  Not like with Alex.  My love for Max is completely different, one that has grown and today, when I go in to get him from his nap and he smiles at me and his eyes light up, that is when I feel it.

So yeah - that’s what I’ve got for today.  I didn’t mean to write so much mushy stuff, it just sorta came out. 

Have you checked out my new releases this week at 2peas?? I have a couple of great little goodies - printable pieces for quick gift ideas and only 99 cents!!

Printable Christmas Takeout Container (complete with illustrated instruction sheet!) {$.99}

Pitter Pat Pocket Calendar Cover {$.99}

Graphic Christmas Decals {$.99}

And this printable project - with three printable paper sheets and illustrated instructions!

Printable Paper Chain Project {$4.00}

i usually dont’ blog because i dont’ feel like i have much to say and today i really don’t either - but i might as well write it down since i have this blog and all.  give my five readers something to read about today

first - today is alex’s fourth birthday!  i am so lucky to have such a great little boy - he took his whoopie pies to school and they were a big hit, as well as his brand new thomas pajamas that he got for his birthday.  lucky it was pajama day today!   i can’t believe it’s already been four years.  sigh…

second - my twilight addiction has been taken to the next level with the introduction of fan fiction.  i’ve stayed away from it because i figured there’s no way it can really be any good.  oooooooooooo how wrong i was about that.  i just read sacrifices this weekend and man, i was in tears at parts and crawling out of my skin with excitement to read the next chapter.   i’ve got a few others bookmarked to read after holidays because i just can’t commit to that addiction right now.  too much going on.  soooo good though - i recommend it if you do’t mind reading on the computer.

third - the cold in my house has finally gotten me.  alex had it first, then gordon - a persitant cough with a congestion add-on.  ugh.  i felt the tickles in my throat this weekend and felt relatively crappy on sunday - i hoped that was the worst of it.  but no - it’s hit me like a mack truck today and all i want to do is lie in bed.  it doesn’t help that it’s dreary and rainy here today either - that just adds to the lay in bed cravings.  and since i’m nursing, i can take only sudafed - boohoo… but, it is alex’s birthday and we have a date with chuck e cheese tonight so i have to just get over it.  luckily, grandma and grandpa as well as aunt megan and her friend cat are also coming so he’ll have more than enough people to play with him

i feel like it’s friday today, but no - only wednesday.  that’s a bummer.  good though since i do have a deadline on friday and i need all the time i can get to finsh up this work.  i’m enjoying it, but have been so distracted with alex’s birthday and everything.  it was hard to not give him more gifts, like everything that he wanted, but with christmas so close i had to hold myself back.  he also has a party with friends this weekend as well as other friends that love him and give him gifts - so we really don’t need to do much.

okay, i’m done with babbling - gonna go hang out with my birthday boy and hope that maxie doen’st catch this cold.  he’s out of sorts today though, so it’s not looking good - sound really stuffy.  poor baby

I was nervously lying in bed, a week overdue waiting to be induced on the 10th.  I was supposed to go on the 9th, but was called right as we were leaving and told not to come to the hospital.

Tomorrow is PJ day at school and Alex is probably just about as excited about the PJ’s as he is about it being his birthday   The priorities of a 4 year old - of course I was always pretty stoked about PJ day too   I made whoppie pies to bring in for the kids to have as snack - he loves the oreo cakesters, so I thought that would be a pretty good treat for the kids.  I hope they like them