A little of this, a little of that

What a week!! It is early Sunday morning (really late Saturday night for me--hoping to get to bed soon) and I am grateful for so many things.

I can't believe my baby boy is 7 weeks old already--in a way it feels like we have had him forever (because we have), but time is going by way too fast for me!!

We have received a ton of snow and the forecast is for more snow this coming week. We received 16 inches on Christmas Day, then had a break on Friday. But Saturday it snowed a couple inches more. The snow earlier was great packing snow, where today's snow was light and fluffy.

I did some cleaning today--the first time I really did a lot since having my baby and surgery. Weird--it felt good, but also was tiring. I enjoyed my break from big household duties (vacuuming, sweeping, cleaning toilets, etc.) but our floor needed a good vacuuming--the children can only get it so clean!

I love our family traditions at Christmas-time: no big meal to cook on Christmas day (omelets made by hubby), making gingerbread & sugar cookies, watching "The Nativity" (3 min.) before opening the presents, playing games and doing puzzles while the children are on break.

Talking about breaks--we have the best schedule for school!! Our small district went to a 4-day school week this year (which we all love) and we have 2 full weeks off for Christmas, a full week for Spring Break, and we had a great break for Thanksgiving.

Way off the topic, but I am glad that I decided to get organized for Christmas in September and October since the baby came the first part of November. Every year I tell myself that I will have everything wrapped and sorted so that on Christmas Eve I am not wrapping and getting things ready last minute. I can say that I was ready Tuesday (2 days before Christmas) and I hope that I will be able to be ready even earlier next year. I would have been done a bit sooner, but I needed go on one more shopping trip w/hubby and a storm came over the weekend so we postponed our trip to Monday. We have to travel 45 miles to shop, doctors, etc.

Well blog followers--I guess I had better say goodnight. My precious baby is now sleeping so I need to take advantage of every second of rest I can get. But I do need to let Aunt P. know that he is smiling and gooing at us a lot now. Hurry back for a visit!

Good night, sweet dreams.