"AND SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS"

Well, it's been a while since I posted, at least one without a picture. I'm at work right now, for some reason, a weak moment of insanity I agreed to come in at 5pm. It's now 4am and 7:30 seems a long ways away yet!

Mike comes home from California on Wed. morn. Nick will be finishing up finals at college this next week, but poor Mandy has to go to school until the 22nd!! She won't get as much time with Mike...She was hoping to spend some time with Mike this next summer out in California. She said something at the dinner table, I'm saying maybe and James is saying no....funny but I thought she was my daughter but whenever I make a decision about her on my own (which I should be able to do) he gets pissed off. Like the fact I allowed her to wear a little make-up for her dance....

Mandy had her Christmas dance last night, I meant to call her at 8:30pm to see if she had fun...but work got in my way and the next time I looked at my watch it was 11:30 and I decided that was a little late to be ringing the phone. Not that James would have answered anyways so I didn't have to worry about waking him or Dylan...but maybe she was asleep...hmmmmm

She also has 2 basketball games today, but I'll miss both of them because I have to work again tonight. Then Sunday she'll have 2 more and those I'll attend, even though I had planned on baking all my Christmas goodies...oh well I'll find the time somewhere.

Dylan is an absolute doll, very busy. When I'm home I hardly ever get a break...I'm lucky to use the fitness center and that is my only break. So I usually stay over there for 1 to 1 1/2 hours because once I'm home it's, go, go, go!!!! I'm picking up one of his messes and he's starting another one in the next room...grrrr.

But it's worse when I have to pick up after James, the mess he leaves me is downright RUDE, I have come home from working 12 hours and have spent the morning cleaning up the house because he leaves it trashed from the night before. And he's usually walking out the door just about as I'm walking in after working all night, so to top it off he doesn't have a thing to say to me, but then again why should that surprise me...

But anyways Dylan will be 17 months old soon, he's got a beautiful smile and still has his mom's blue eyes, and blond hair. He hates being dressed, prefers running around naked...loves his bath/shower with his dad every morning and is a picky eater! Though I have found he loves potato chips and mm's! Oh and he loves Christmas lights and decorations, I drove to Brooklyn the other night to watch my son play basketball for the church league and Dylan was in the back seat oooohing at all the lights...it was so cute. It's fun seeing Christmas through his eyes...

Well I think that's all I have to say for now, I could go on a rampage about husbands...but I won't tonight.

Back to work for now....Deb