When the cat's away...

The business world seems to shut down the week between Christmas and New Year's. I think my phone has rang once this whole week. The bosses are out, half the staff is on vacation, and there are no emails or calls coming in. Know what this means to me? Wedding planning time!!!

In the course of 3 days I have pretty much planned the ENTIRE wedding. I have booked a ceremony/reception venue, hired a caterer, designed an invitation, and thoroughly researched most other aspects.

Some may call this bad work ethic. I call it taking advantage of a situation. "Oh, you are reducing your contribution to my health care and taking away my paid holidays? Well, I will just plan my wedding on your dime then. Thanks."

Taking Advantage of Michael

I have a game plan for my wedding centerpieces and it involves possibly taking advantage of Michael's Craft Store.

Everytime I go to Michael's I google "printable Michael's coupons" in order to find my 40-50% coupons. I do not save them from the mailers, I just print one everytime I need it. Technically, I can print as many as I want at one time, but I can only use one per visit.

Everything I will need in order to create my centerpiece masterpieces is available at Michael's and happens to be really reasonably priced with a coupon. So my plan is to print a bunch of coupons and visit Michael's as often as necessary in order to buy my supplies piece by piece. They may know me by name in the Hyde Park Michael's by the time this project is complete, but I will have saved a ton of money!!

http://www.mommysavesbig.com/printable-coupons/michaels50.pdf

Little Screamer

Diddle has definitely discovered his voice. Lately, he has been making the same screeching noise over and over again. I am surprised he hasn't lost his voice yet! During our shopping adventures last weekend, the shoppers in both Target and Kroger got to hear Diddle exercising his lungs up and down the aisles.

I can already tell he is attention starved...just like his father.

Doing it for the Kids

Last night we went to the Zoo to look at the lights. It was so nice to have our first family Holiday outing. However, if it weren’t for little Diddle- I would never have been able to talk Casey into going.

My plea was that we were going for Diddle. He loves to look at lights- so what a perfect place. In reality, we were going for my own selfish reasons. I love the zoo and I love doing Holiday type activities. And let’s be honest- the baby has no clue what is going on. The big elephant pooping in front of his face was probably beyond the realm of anything his little brain can handle (although I should give my baby a little more credit since he is a genius).

I am sure over the next year there are a lot of things we will “do for the baby”, but really it’s all for our own personal memories.

Zipper vs Snaps

The other night I was laying in bed and hear Casey cursing up a storm. He had gotten up for the 4 AM feeding and I could not imagine what might have made him so mad.

I had to get out of bed to check the situation out, When I walked into the baby's room, Diddle was laying on his changing table with his PJ's completely unbuttoned. Apparently, Casey could not figure out how to snap them back up causing him to curse the little froggies that were smiling back at him.

Is it that difficult to follow the snaps so they match-up? It is a very simple concept.

To alleviate Casey's early morning confusion- I now make sure to use the zipper pajamas on the nights that it's his turn to get up.