Santa Came To Town

St. Nick stopped by Brayden's school this morning to get their requests & take pics. Brayden called me this afternoon to let me know he wasn't scared & what his list of goodies were......2 different Transformers & a pair of RED boots!!! WHAT?!?! I'm so confused as to where that one came from but whatever, right?! So looks like momma will be shopping for some red boots tomorrow night, anyone know where I might find some?!? My bestie Renee & I are going tomorrow to finish(well I'm finishing she's starting) shopping.

Brayden is at such a fun age for Christmas, he's totally into the whole Santa thing & all about shaking the presents under the tree. They've been learning Christmas songs at school & it's so cute to hear him sing his own version.

Some Christmas Talk

I had planned on doing Boomama's Tour of Homes but since I was sick I didn't get any pics taken. It took me all weekend to get back to normal. I seriously was starting to wonder if I would ever be back to feeling well. I'm so very thankful it didn't take Brayden as long to bounce back.

I keep getting all these emails about how to beat holiday stress, usually I'm all about trying not to stress but this year I haven't stressed & it's GREAT. There's not anything different this year then any other year. Every other year I've always been so worried that Brayden didn't have enough presents but at the same time I've always wanted to raise him knowing that's not what Christmas is about. So this year I didn't buy him stuff just so he would have lots of presents to open. I bought him toys he wanted but not all of them of course. I didn't buy him any clothes,seriously what 4 year old boy wants to open clothes?!

I had started this blog earlier this morning & since have gone home for lunch. While there I grabbed my camera because I had taken a couple of pics of our tree so I thought I would give a sneak peek.




Our tree isn't as big as I would like it but we tried a real tree out this year. I really like the look of a real tree but don't like that we have to put the lights on, I feel like it doesn't have enough.

Ok So Maybe I Was Wrong

So Wednesday evening I started feeling a little sickly. I tried to push it away thinking maybe I was just tired from not getting much sleep the night before. Well that wasn't the case, Shawnn & I both were home yesterday sick. Guess Brayden had a bug after all. I still think it's a little ironic that 2 days after school starts giving him milk he ends up sick. We went ahead & told them no more milk just to be on the safe side. I was pretty bummed out because we had plans with Shawnn's family to go to Creekmore to ride the train & look at the Christmas lights, then go to The Night of Giving at our mall to finish up Christmas shopping. This is the 5th year they done this and this is the 2nd time I've TRIED going. The first year I planned on going I had a migraine then this year I had a stomach bug, guess I won't plan on going anymore, ha. I think we're going to survive but I have a feeling it's still going to take a couple of days to be 100%. My plan for the weekend is to try santizing our house with Christmas coming up in 13 days(can you believe it?!?) we need to be well plus we'll have company starting next weekend.

I'll Never Look At Mac N Cheese The Same

In the summer of 06 Brayden started getting sick on the weekends. I'm talking SICK, so sick we dreaded the weekends. It would start Sat. night after we put him to bed & last until Monday mid day. We couldn't figure it out, we would take him to his dr. who thought he had roto-virus. About a month after going through this every weekend, we were exhausted, stressed, & worried. So I took him to the ER on Saturday night, they couldn't figure anything out either, no fever, they took a bowel sample, nothing. Finally my mommy instincts kicked in & I took him off milk, and no more sickness. I took him back to his dr. because daycare needed a note from the dr. to take him off milk. I told her what we had done & she agreed it was probably the milk. So fast forward till Monday. Shawnn took Brayden to school Monday & they asked if they could start giving him milk again. They've accidently gave it to him a few times, Shawnn told them yeah to go ahead. We sometimes give him milk but only a little. Well yesterday we got home & he had diahrea 5 or 6 times before bed. I kept thinking what is wrong with him, then the light bulb went off.....MILK!!!! About 10:45 last night we hear something, to me it sounded like someone was breaking in, totally freaked me out, then we heard it again, it was Brayden getting sick. I walked into his room turned on the light & apparently said "OH MY GOSH, SHAWNN" he had thrown up all over his bed,& his room. Shawnn had to come step in because I couldn't handle it. So at 11 last night we were giving baths, & cleaning a bedroom, not really what I like to call fun, ha. I felt so bad for Brayden, he wanted to go back to bed but we couldn't let him. So I put him in the recliner & that lasted 10 minutes before he was on the couch with me. He's home today recooperating. SO moral of the story NO MORE MILK FOR BRAYDEN.

Santa's Lil Helpers

I'm so getting this for Brayden for next Christmas. I wish I would've heard about it sooner, he's at a great age this year.

Christmas Is Just Right Around The Corner

I can't believe we're already putting Christmas decorations up again. I still remember putting all my decorations up last year, crazy!! We decided this year to get a real tree, and I'm so excited about it, not sure why but I am. Good thing for Shawnn simple things excite me,ha!! I think I've decided to go with my black & white again this year, because we're getting a whitish green tree, so I think we'll be able to see the ornaments better. Shawnn and I were invited to an Ugly Christmas Sweater party next weekend, how fun. Hope everyone's having a great Thursday!!! Tomorrow's Friday, YaY!!!