Post-Christmas Post

Highs:

• Watching the boys romp around outside in shorts in the lovely mild December weather
• Going to a buffet and eating only one moderately sized plate of food. Deborah FTW!
• Overhearing one of the boys making "curried chicken" and "caviar" with their play dough
• Finalizing our home-addition plans
• Finally deciding to homeschool the little men--giving them a classical education (Latin anyone?)
• Disneyland with everybody for three beautiful days
• Attending Eliz's fabulous Christmas piano recital (tear up every time I go--she's THAT great)
• Starting to exercise at 5 am again and LOVING it
• Blogging less and reading more
• Watching Aaron get promoted at work
• Having a happy four-year-old (best age ever)
• 9:00 am church!
• Starting to have success with the YW planning their own activities
• Sharing a fabulous Christmas with my Father-in-law and Mother-in-law, both of whom I love very much
• Being happier than I ever have been before

Lows:

• "A" constantly wetting his pants (Though he somehow completely avoided this problem during our week in Disneyland. Laziness, maybe?)
• 90 minute wait times for rides at Disneyland--are you kidding me, people?
• Fattest I Have Ever Been. EVER.
• "A" biting one of the Christmas lights (I found him screaming in the living room spitting out blood and glass)
• Seriously moving into the life of the middle-aged middle-American--everything is full priced and heavily taxed
• *The fighting, the fighting, the fighting (scratching, shoving, biting, etc)
• Unhappy (and full out crazy) three-year-old (worst age ever)
• Wow, I tell you, laundry NEVER ends
• Home additions cost a lot of money
• Cement costs a lot of money
• Lumber costs a lot of money
• Everything boring that goes into a house costs a LOT of money