The way this Ty Beanie Baby Christmas Bear looks is about the way we all are feeling right now (I think I speak for the majority of us!). Stuffed and pooped out! We are tired, pooped out, exhausted, run down, ready-for-it-to-be-over. Maybe not quit ready-for-it-to-be-over, but almost. Seems like after the gifts are open, the visits to friends and families' houses are done, the eating (and the crying because we ate too much) is done that the magic of it all ends. I asked Allyssa today if she had a good Christmas and she said "yes ma'am". I asked her if she got everything she thought she asked for and she said yes. I can safely say I did. A couple of things I got, I had just mentioned (Santa is a good listener!) Dakota got plenty of toys and clothes as well as Allyssa. She, Randy and Natasha baked cookies in her Easy-Bake Oven Christmas Day night. They were suppose to fix slushies tonight, but she had a date with Mom to spend the night since Mom would have them tomorrow anyway. Dakota had a big day at day care today apparently. When we got home, I gave her a snack, changed her diaper and she was ready for her nap. I usually lay down with her on my bed and get her to sleep. It normally takes me about 20-25 minutes to get her settled down enough to nap a little bit before her mom gets here to pick them up, but today she was out in less than 5 minutes and snoring to beat the band! You could hear her all the way down the hall. Allyssa was watching the DVD movie Waterboy with Papa until her mom came to get them. I woke Dakota up about 5 minutes before she got here. Sometimes when Dakota wakes up she starts shaking until the figures out where she is at. So I wake her up gently so she can ease into her surroundings once again. Went back to work today for 3 days and then another long week-end, WOO-HOO! Still thinking about the resolutions thing, gonna do a scrapbook page, but haven't quit got it down in my mind how I want it, or maybe I will just do a mini-book about it. Got a little scrapbooker's block going on right now. So much I want to do, so little time to do it in. Sometimes things run through my mind so fast I cannot even keep up with them, much less right them down. Ate lunch with Mom today at Subway. I only get 30 minutes so it is a eat-and-run lunch. She was so funny today, we were sitting there eating and then all of a sudden I say, I have to go. Instead of me wrapping my sandwich up to go (actually I was already done with it since I am used to eating in a hurry) she starts wrapping hers up really fast and she said "I love eating lunch with you"!!!! Of course, I knew she was being facicious since I had to run and she did not! There was a time when I did not have to rush off from lunch but those days are long gone. I don't think I will ever get to that point in my career again, especially where I am working at the present time. I sure do miss not having to rush around all the time. Well, gotta go and start my mind thinking about the mini-book of resolutions I am going to make, I think!
