Santa Claus is coming to town...

Waiting for Santa!

Santa & Evan 2010

Having a serious conversation with Santa

Evan, Dave and I went to see Santa (Tanta is what E calls him) yesterday on Michigan Avenue.   We went to the same place as last year...to see the 900 North Shops Santa Claus.  It was fantastic!  We waited 15 minutes to see Santa.   I thought Evan was going to cry when he sat on Santa's lap...but much to my surprise he didn't.  He walked right up to Santa, looked at him, and Santa picked him up and placed him on his knee.   Evan didn't even blink an eye.   He was dead serious as he looked at Santa and everything that surrounded him.   We  eagerly tried to get him to smile but he was intent on taking everything seriously...it was definitely no laughing matter.  Ha ha ha.  He was such a big boy and happy as can be after he got a little toy Christmas cat for his braveness.   We were so very proud of him!  Thank you Santa for a lovely visit!!!

Giving Thanks

I am ever so grateful for so many things in my life.   I have been blessed with good health, a beautiful son, husband, loving family and friends, a home, and a career I love.   When I think of all of I have been blessed with in my life I can't imagine being blessed with more.   I thank God everyday for all he has given me.   I love the ups and downs that life has brought me.   I know each day is uncertain and I try not to take it all for granted.   At the end of the day, I enjoy sitting back, relaxing and remembering all the people that have touched my life and the things that bring me happiness!

All Said and Done

It's official... all contractual work is complete!  Yay!!!   Now we just wait patiently for our couch to be delivered within the next month.  Once the couch is here we will have completed the final touch to our 'new' home.   We are ecstatic that everything structurally is done now.   However with everything complete it's hard to believe for the last 6 months we were living in a construction zone....really?!?!   Where did the time go?!?!

An Extra Hour! Totally Forgot!!!

I forgot today was day light savings time...jeez...an extra hour, what to do with the time (LOL)!?!?!   I sit here on the couch, while Dave and Evan sleep, thinking about what I need to get done today.  Rather than pondering about the day, I should be sitting here enjoying the peace and quiet.  With all the construction and chaos this past month, I have sadly fallen behind in scraping, creating Evan's 17-19month DVD's.   Luckily while I have fallen behind in this stuff, our home has been refreshed and is practically brand new!  

Speaking of new... the latest update on our house as of today is....carpeting is going to be installed this Tuesday and we have the intercom serviceman coming out to fix our buildings system.  Apparently there is some fault somewhere in our building's system and it's not allowing any of the units to buzz guests into our homes.   Our neighbor's unit, the one above us whose roofer started the fire, is almost finished.  They sanded, buffed and stained their floor yesterday (wow! was that loud-glad I gave the neighbor below us a heads up when we had had our floors done).   Overall we are looking forward to not hearing the pounding of hammers, the drilling, the sawing, and seeing the dry wall and dust accumulate in our main entryway and stairwell.  E will finally be able to take a nap in his own crib and not in our master walk in closet.   What a trouper he has been!   Due to the construction, E's naps were all over the place last week.  After trying to get him down to sleep for nearly an hour or two, E went down to sleep around 2p (usually he's down around noon, 1p the latest) and would wake at 4p, so then he didn't go to bed until 8p, would wake at 7:30a and the cycle would repeat.   I finally got to take his nap at noon yesterday and hopefully he is back on track.

Honestly...as excited as we are to have the whole house completed and looking like new (sometime soon we hope) we are so over having people in and out of our home working on something.   It will be nice to have this all said and done by the holidays.

Halloween 2010

Oh boy!!!   We had Lots of fun this halloween.  Evan was a kick in his Elmo costume.   He picked up the trick or treating deal when he got to the 5th house or so and started to take a handful of candy instead of the one that I told him was suffice.   On Friday night we carved our pumpkin.  On Saturday we went to Grace's Halloween Birthday party.  And, on Sunday we went Trick or Treating.  

We are glad to be back into our house and getting settled in.  We are still waiting on a few things like the carpet, couch and bed spread.   All had to be special ordered so now we wait :0(  The roof is completed and the construction crew are now working on our neighbors kitchen.   They speculate it to be done by the end of the month, or so we hope :0)