HAPPY NEW YEAR, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO ME

Christmas and New Years is finally over.

Christmas:

I got all my shopping done Christmas Eve Eve. Everything was wrapped and ready to go by 5pm Christmas Eve. That's the earliest I have ever finished my wrapping. Wrapping for 5 kids and a husband I usually have tons and tons of gifts to wrap. This year I didn't go as crazy with the gift buying so I didn't have as many to wrap, THANK GOD!!!! Christmas day the kids ripped through everything in less than 30 minutes, all that work and BAM it's ruined. Mike's mom came over at 10:15, she wasn't supposed to be here till 11. I hid in my room to take a nap, Mike told her I had a migraine, LOL. She got the kids those mats you hook up to the tv and play games with your feet, they love them. Mike and I must smell because she got us soaps from Avon. We must have pissed her off this year cause she usually gives us $100, not this year. Oh well, she'll get over it and if not, that's her problem, not mine!!!

New Years:

Tracy and her family came over and I made dinner (Baked Ziti). She's been asking me for months to make it so I finally did. I think that's going to be our New Years tradition. After dinner we played games till 5am. YUP 5 AM. We stay up all night every year on New Year's Eve. My house did absolutely nothing yesterday.

Today: My 10 year Anniversary--


Who would have thunk I'd make it this long. Those of you that really know me, know my first marriage was really over after 2 years but I hung on for 7. Don't ever do that. If it sucks and you can't stand looking at your partner GET OUT!!

Anyway back to a happy topic. We celebrate today by doing absolutely nothing, LOL. We're broke so we stay in and work on our honey do lists. Mine of course is empty but his is a mile long, LOL.. ;)

We are getting ready to move my 18 yr old out of her room and downstairs and our 9 year old is getting her room upstairs. We are going to paint, wallpaper, border, new curtains, eventually new carpet, and general new decorations. We have everything picked out, paint already bought, so we are going to do it in stages. Her paint colors, of course, are pink and a really lite purple for the trim and closet doors.

So far so good on the health WIKI. Eating isn't the problem for me, it's the getting up and exercising. That's going to be my biggest struggle. I'll do it though. 19 yrs of being fat is enough!!!

Gotta run, kids are killing each other.