Scratchy-Eyed
I’m functioning on about two hours of sleep today. This is why kids can be very, very bad for control freaks like me. You can do everything right, so you think - not eat any chocolate all day, not let the nap go too long, make sure the temperature is right, not get too far past bedtime and have overly tired kids - and still, it just doesn’t matter. There are still nights where you find yourself sitting in bed at 3:00am with a 16 month old staring at you, wide-eyed and wide-awake. And there’s not a damn thing you can do about it; it’s just not in your control. You can make no sense out of why it is happening and therefore cannot even ensure that it doesn’t happen again.
And then Sam started waking up with nightmares about “Captors,” which, apparently are like black cats that “are scary.” Huh. Not sure where that came from. And the two of them basically woke each other up for the rest of the night. Again, beyond my control.
Holiday Status Check: I’ll give myself a 95%. I still have two bags and two boxes of stuff to drop off at various donation sites. Oh, and during my fitted sleep I dreamt that Hubby had gone out and bought the gift I got for him and now I’m scared about that. Other than nagging him to write the few Christmas cards that are for his contacts, I think I’m done. Gifts are wrapped and hidden, cookies are baked, but half still need icing and decorations.
On that note, I think I’m going to turn into a Christmas Cookie. Probably the snowman, or snowwoman, as it were.
Oh, and I have no idea what I’m making for Christmas Eve dinner. What are you having?
I hate to comment with a blog post, but this is my signature meal:
http://littlemaniac.blogspot.com/2008/08/good.html
I think I’m still at 80%, or whatever it was last time you checked. lol I got a good headstart, but then…. nothing.
I did get my food for Christmas Eve, though. We’ll be combining Christmas celebration and Hanukkah, so it’ll be Steak Fondue, Potato Latkes, Beer Bread, Spinach Herb Dip, Red Velvet Birthday Cake (Jesus’ birthday, and he’s royalty and all!), I’m sure we’ll end up with a couple of other random things in there. Some corn, maybe… fried apples…
We’re making Jelly muffins, instead of Jelly Donuts, for Christmas morning.
I must sound like a whacko with all my mixture of holidays, but Jesus celebrated Hanukkah, too.
Chicken parm, salad, and apple pie. If we were eating red meat right now, I would go with eye of round, au jus.
1. i was up at 3am too with a wide awake baby! we should have chatted
2. holiday status: 100% done shopping. 0% done wrapping and packing and we leave in less than 24 hours. and here i am, reading your blog. and i wonder why i get nothing done.
3. ham.
For Christmas Eve, I have a bunch of snacky stuff, a deli platter for making sandwiches, exploded potato salad and other sides, plus cookies, fudge and brownies. It’s all serve-yourself style.
Christmas night dinner is a repeat of Thanksgiving dinner.h
We are having the traditional southwestern Christmas Eve dinner of posole with tortillas. Mmmm. It always takes me back to the magical Christmas Eve we spent in New Mexico. I will make it in the crockpot and we’ll eat it when we get home from church (5pm service).
I try to keep it simple on Christmas Eve. Christmas dinner is much more involved and I don’t want two labor intensive, heavy meals back-to-back.
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