our season's greetings...

... seem to be either to sneeze in your general direction or offer a hand to shake that may or may not have dried snot encrusted on it. Yup, cold season has hit us, and I'm starting to wonder just how many boxes of tissues we can go through in one week. With three small drippy noses to wipe all day, plus the lovely assortment of diapers, I believe I wash my hands once every 7 minutes. That makes for a very long day. (And another round of dried cracked hands... yippee.) Thankfully, I haven't (yet?) hit the stage of stuffed sinuses and drippy nose, since I'm still back on the square with coughing fits caused by disgusting pieces of phlegm that sit in the back of my throat.

As far as the actual seasonal stuff, we haven't given any thought to Christmas cards yet, but I'm pretty sure we did it very last minute last year. On a Friday night, the kids had their baths/showers, got into PJ's and had a quick photo shoot in front of the Christmas tree. That night I uploaded the pics online to Costco, ordered the cards, picked them up on Monday, and had them in the mail by Wednesday. I think we'll be on that timeline again this year, if it gets done at all... which really, if it doesn't, I don't think the world is going to end. We haven't even put up a Christmas tree yet, which is still okay for us, since it is only the the 7th... but if it doesn't get done next weekend, we may be in trouble. I'm back in deadline mode since we have a special visitor coming in two weekends, so I NEED projects and decorating and major cleaning to get done before then. I'd very much like to make a good first impression on our guest, and our little home does look so cozy when we've got the decorations in place. We're hoping to do something a little different this year with the Christmas tree, but after a couple tries yesterday, we still hadn't found what we were hoping to find. Here's hoping that it all comes together next weekend!

Well, that was kind of lame for a post, I guess. It could have been titled, "I feel sick and tired and I still have a bunch of crap to get done," but that would have been a total spoiler, right?


Coughing into my elbow like the CDC instructs,



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