Monday Morning Musings - Nose Worthy

Some friends of ours gave us a gingerbread house kit for Christmas. We just haven't had the time to assemble it until last night. Uncle Sam came over just as the kids were putting it together. They had fun erecting it last night and today they are having fun dismantling it in a candy free for all frenzy.

We have a bit of a trash problem goin' on at the moment. Our trash cans were full long before Christmas and we had them overflowing and piles of trash and boxes stacking up in our garage. Our trash day is Friday and so the trash pickup didn't happen until Saturday morning. VERY EARLY Saturday morning apparently. We didn't get the cans out to the curb on time. We have to wait now until Saturday again. I am just leaving the monstrosities out at the curb. I'm not taking any chances on missing it again. You would think the garbage collectors would have the common decency to wait a little later in the morning and give people a chance to wake up from their holiday stupor. I'm just sayin'.

I had to drive Steve's truck last night. I took Emily over to my mom's house to spend the night and since her trash pick up is tomorrow and she had 1/2 a can empty, I loaded up the bed of the truck with trash and headed over. I hate driving his truck because it is so big and I feel like I have massive blind spots all over the place when I drive it. The only good thing about driving it is I get a little boost to my self esteem when I drive it. Because when I drive it, I can pretend that all the guys are checkin' me out and pretend that it's not really the truck they are checkin' out. I didn't even get the satisfaction of that last night because it was dark when I was driving.

I love that my kids love their Christmas presents so much. I must take advantage of the leverage I have over the next few weeks before the newness wears off. "If you don't come here right now, I am taking your ipod away for 2 days!" And BAM! They are there. I love it!

The day before Christmas Eve Addy about broke my nose. Again. Why my kids always feel the need to be banging their heads into my nose, I don't know. Maybe it is because it is so big and it is always in their way? Anyway. We have a window about 4 feet above our bed. And Addy likes to climb in the window and jump down on the bed (I don't let her do this, and she gets in big fat trouble when she does it, just so you don't think I am a horrible parent). Anyway. Steve had just got home from work and was putting stuff away and I sat down on the edge of the bed to talk to him. I laid back and closed my eyes for two seconds when all of the sudden BAM! A three year old's teeth embedded in my nose as she jumped out of the window onto my face. Hot dang did that hurt. Really bad. I really thought it was broken and I really thought I was going to have a broken nose and black eyes for Christmas. It hurt like heck for the first few days. I could hardly stand to wear my glasses. Here is a picture of the damage. This is the only good picture I have of it because I have major makeup on it in all the other pictures. This one was taken on Christmas morning by Zac, so be kind to my nasty self.


Poor Addy. As soon as she fell on my face, she immediately went and put herself in the corner. I went right over to her and picked her up and hugged her and told her I loved her. I knew that she had to have been hurt too. She felt so bad. And her teeth hurt pretty bad too.