Skip to main content

Our Christmas Week

Know what I've decided? I am NOT going to do any more ongoing blogs, like the 12 days of Christmas. It was such a great idea, but I forget to do it, then I look back today and where I should have 11 I only have 4. I am just not good about this blogging thing yet.

This week has been an interesting experience. I got to experience a little of what it's like to be a stay at home mom. We have the kids this week and I took the week off to hang out with them. I certainly have a new understanding for what it's like! There is a part of me that likes not having the responsibility of a job. However, being at home with children all day is a totally different challenge. First of all, it's hard labor. You do the cleaning, the laundry, vacuuming, etc. You are constantly picking things up, making food, playing with kids. I think I would probably lose about 20 pounds if I did it all the time, because there were a couple of meals I completely forgot to eat. I have been thinking about what it will be like when Jason and I have a baby. Will I stay at home? Or will I just have to go back to work? I really like my job, but then again, I don't know that I could stay gone from my child that long. Anyway, to all you stay at home moms, my hat is off to you and what you do every day!

We also had our engagement pictures, which are attached below. We have the best photographer ever, and that's no lie. She is absolutely amazing and I am so lucky my sister hooked us up with her. We told her when we met for our initial appointment what we wanted. I have been to enough weddings that I knew what I didn't want. For one, I don't want cheesy, unnatural posed pictures at all. I want pictures taken of random moments, but also pictures of us laughing and talking. Of course, you have to have some posed pictures, but Allison knows just how to take the picture where it doesn't look fake. There isn't any of this "now tilt your head so slightly left" and stuff. Here are just a few of the pictures she has already editted and posted (that's right, she had these done the next day!). The other thing I asked is that we don't spend an hour between the ceremony and the reception taking pictures. Let's take it fast and move on. She is totally in tune with what we want and I am so excited to have found her!








Christmas is certainly better with kids. It adds to the excitment of everything! We have the kids every other year for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, so this year, we went to my parents house to celebrate. We rounded up both dogs, and all 4 of us. Needless to say, it was an experience. Jordan and Sophia got some great gifts, exactly what they wanted, and we had such a great time with them this year.






Merry Christmas to all of my wonderful friends and family. I love each and every one of you, and wish you blessing this Christmas. And remember, Jesus is the Reason for the Season.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Guess Who Has A New Potty???

This girl!! Jason and I took Avery to Target tonight to find a potty chair. We didn't know what kind to get. When we got there, she loved the Sesame Street one. It's the kind that sits on the toilet, not an actual chair. I've heard both reasonings on a chair and a pad for the real toilet. On one hand, the chairs are little and easier for them to sit on and they aren't scary to flush. On the other, the pad doesn't require you to have to clean out a chair and they teach kids to sit on the big potty from the get go. What it really came down to was that we just don't have a big bathroom at all, so keeping an actual chair in the bathroom would have been hard. So we got the pad. It has a little hook that you attach to the tank, so you can hang the pad on it. I love this!  I have no intention of actually potty training Avery full out, just yet. I don't think she is ready. But I have heard it's good to have one that they can practice sitting on and get u...

Some Changes...

We've been going through a bit of a transition at the Whitehead household the last month or so. I haven't really talked too much about it because I wasn't ready, to be honest. It's just a lot of change and I've been trying to figure it out in my head.   As of three weeks ago last Friday, I am no longer a full time work out of home employee.   I can't believe I just said that.   It's been the plan for several months now for me to go into real estate and it was always assumed I'd be doing that part time, while keeping my full time job. Plans kind of changed when Jason got his promotion. He'd always has a job that allowed him a lot of flexibility. In sales, especially after you've been in a position for a while, it just sort of happens that way. He could take Avery to daycare and pick her up, he could take her to doctor's appointments, he could even do chores around the house in the afternoon, while I was at work. I had some flexibi...

Just a little bathroom project....

Raise your hand if this is what your bathroom looks like after every round of baths at your house????