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Dec. 15th, 2014 04:22 pmI have to post quickly before the baby wakes up. VEE is down for her afternoon nap with little fuss (hallelujah!) and so knowing how these kids work, one goes down and the other wakes up...
Things went well with our party this past weekend. Everything got done, though some of it was half-assed. There were things hidden in our laundry room and our bedroom wasn't as clean as it should have been, but oh well. Everyone seemed to enjoy the party so that's what counts. Thanks to the city folks for driving out to the burbs (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aj, xica_s, and fishdoctorpost), as well as mei_x for driving down from her burb. It was great to see people. We have a crap-ton of leftover cheese. And despite starting the party out with 91 bottles of wine, we now are down to only 87 bottles thanks to people contributing their own libations. 87 bottles of wine in our house, 87 bottles of wine...
Christmas is coming along. I have almost all my shopping done. I just need to go pick up stuff for a few people, which requires driving all over God's green Earth to different stores for gift cards. I'm going to need at least one day where I leave VEE with her grandma so that I can zoom around everywhere without her. She's a pain to shop with. And then I'm going to need yet another day with her at her grandma's so that I can wrap presents. Thankfully she likes to "help" in the kitchen and we can do our baking together. I'm going to (try to) make chocolate peppermint chip cookies, lemon bars, fruitcake cookies, sugar cookies (from a mix, don't judge me!), and spritz cookies with the cookie press if I have time. That's a lot to do in the next ten days.
Not much else is up, really. We went to the Brookfield Zoo yesterday for their "Holiday Magic" light display. So many Christmas lights! VEE loved it. Of course, due to the unseasonably warm weather around Chicagoland and the Groupon deals they've been running, I think probably every parent in the tri-state area was there with their kids. It was a madhouse. Alas, this year we didn't get to see any dolphins having sex or posh old men pushing Real Dolls in wheelchairs. Man, that was a Christmas outing to be remembered...
Okay, that's all I've got for now. I'm sure I've forgotten a ton of things I was going to write about. That's life. I hope your lives are going well.
Things went well with our party this past weekend. Everything got done, though some of it was half-assed. There were things hidden in our laundry room and our bedroom wasn't as clean as it should have been, but oh well. Everyone seemed to enjoy the party so that's what counts. Thanks to the city folks for driving out to the burbs (
aj, xica_s, and fishdoctorpost), as well as mei_x for driving down from her burb. It was great to see people. We have a crap-ton of leftover cheese. And despite starting the party out with 91 bottles of wine, we now are down to only 87 bottles thanks to people contributing their own libations. 87 bottles of wine in our house, 87 bottles of wine...Christmas is coming along. I have almost all my shopping done. I just need to go pick up stuff for a few people, which requires driving all over God's green Earth to different stores for gift cards. I'm going to need at least one day where I leave VEE with her grandma so that I can zoom around everywhere without her. She's a pain to shop with. And then I'm going to need yet another day with her at her grandma's so that I can wrap presents. Thankfully she likes to "help" in the kitchen and we can do our baking together. I'm going to (try to) make chocolate peppermint chip cookies, lemon bars, fruitcake cookies, sugar cookies (from a mix, don't judge me!), and spritz cookies with the cookie press if I have time. That's a lot to do in the next ten days.
Not much else is up, really. We went to the Brookfield Zoo yesterday for their "Holiday Magic" light display. So many Christmas lights! VEE loved it. Of course, due to the unseasonably warm weather around Chicagoland and the Groupon deals they've been running, I think probably every parent in the tri-state area was there with their kids. It was a madhouse. Alas, this year we didn't get to see any dolphins having sex or posh old men pushing Real Dolls in wheelchairs. Man, that was a Christmas outing to be remembered...
Okay, that's all I've got for now. I'm sure I've forgotten a ton of things I was going to write about. That's life. I hope your lives are going well.