I’ve done all my online shopping already. Now I have no other choice but to brave the malls. I am NOT so happy about that. I don’t feel all that great today and Brian is out with his high schoolers volunteering with Habitat for Humanity so I’d be braving them with Chance. What the heck??? He’s not going to protect me from that mean woman taking the last Christmas sweater. Boo!!!

I’m grumpy right now. I shouldn’t go shopping when I’m grumpy!

I KNOW!!! I’ll hit up Starbucks first. As long as they don’t mess up my drink, my day MAY get better.

*sigh*

I’m so impressed with myself. I got Christmas cards out (Brian stuffed and sealed all of them… good job, honey!!!) yesterday and today. Last year, I got them out really late and some people didn’t get them till AFTER Christmas. That’s just weird! Anyway… YAY me!

This morning, we had playgroup at my house. I love having little bodies running around and playing together in my family room. I made blueberry muffins too (the "just-add-milk" kind… I’m not THAT ambitious in the morning).

Brian and I (and Helen) are flying my Dad into the states for Christmas. I’m quite excited since I haven’t seen him in 5 years… since my wedding. He lives in China. It will be really good for Chance to meet his Gung-Gung. I hope he’ll remember him since I doubt we’ll see Dad for a couple of years after this Christmas.

I’m looking forward to hosting Christmas here this year. I love hosting things in my home. I think it’s a reason to clean my house without seeming too much like a clean freak. I need to do some Christmas shopping though. I’ve been avoiding it… I hate the malls this time of year and I definitely don’t want to go with Chance since timing is so unpredictable. I’ve told myself I’ll do most of it online, but to this point, I’ve pretty much forgotten this task completely (well… I’ve got ONE round of gifts done… but a bazillion to go. *sigh*).

I feel kind of at a loss with my excessive amount of free time now that the Singley kids are gone. Chance is napping and he should be down for another 1.5 hours or so. I think I’ll go clean something…

WORD UP, HOMIE G!!!

I don’t really know where the day went… but it’s gone and I feel like I got nothing done, so I’m gonna list off my day.

1. Woke up
2. Showered and junk
3. Played with Chance
4. Had breakfast
5. Played with Chance some more and cleaned the kitchen in between "playings"
6. Fed Chance lunch
7. Put him down for a nap
8. Cleaned my desk
9. Paid bills
10. Worked on Christmas presents
11. 1 load of laundry
12. Worked on some Arbonne stuff
13. Had Matt walk me through setting up SKYPE on MAC and LULU so that the kids are ready to talk to him and Jen for FREE while they’re in Cancun
14. Almost forgot to eat lunch… thanks for the reminder, Matt!
15. Chance woke up… fed him a snack and let him beat on me for a bit
16. Played with Chance and more cleaning
17. Made dinner
18. Ate dinner with Brian and Chance
19. Went to Worship Team Practice at the church
20. Came home, read my friends blogs and commented
21. Currently blogging

Now I’m going to bed. I had a day. Sometimes, when I list things out, I feel like I got something done. I’m looking at the list and the only thing I feel really good about is Chance and my desk.

My back hurts… the bass is heavy.

I was going through some old pictures just now and came across these. I thought I’d share them with y’all:

Girlfriends (of all ages) praying over me and unborn Chance. This was overwhelming. Still to this day, one of the best experiences of my life.

There’s something amazing about being prayed over at a party that was thrown just for you. I think I cried.

Look how flippin’ huge I am here. If you click on the picture you can see how swollen my face was just by my chin. Here were my thoughts: "I know you’re taking my picture… but if I keep watching TV and pretend you’re not there, maybe you won’t be." I went into labor within the next 10 hours here.

When Brian had more hair and I had less. This was Brian’s 10 year reunion. I had just donated 10 inches of hair to LOCKS OF LOVE and I was trying to swing the whole "flippy hair" deal. I now understand that long hair works better on me. Word.

Me and Chris Tomlin at the WillowCreek Conference in Chicago (2003).

I loved him then and I love him now. We’re best friends… he just doesn’t know it yet. I know… I know… some people call that "stalker" behavior. I’m cool with that…

My very first formal Homecoming dance in High School. Believe it or not, that dress WAS in style once. I’m also very aware that it’s NOT now.

In the picture: Marcus Francis (my date), Laurie Rasmussen (my neighbor), Steve Hilbert, Jennifer Lees (Richter, now) & Tom McAndrew. Go ahead and laugh.

I just thought I’d throw out a random blog.