20 Days till Christmas...

I'm sitting here having a very difficult time picking the picture that won't be on our Christmas card this year, so that I can post it here. There are a couple good ones with some cute smiles, so we'll probably use one of those for the card itself. But there are plenty of really funny ones - the drunk baby, the baby grinch, the mad baby...I can't decide which one to post here. I think I'm going to go with drunk baby. Maybe I'll post a few others at the bottom.

I got more Christmas shopping done last night, but unfortunately it has been cutting into my gym time. Starting Monday next week I have to be extremely good with eating and working out for the entire week. Well, at least until Friday and Saturday, when the holiday parties start. I am trying not to get too far off track since I have been working so hard for the past 6 months - I don't want to have to start over!

So yesterday afternoon was very depressing. Since we are flying down to FL on Thursday without the baby, we felt it would be best to get it over with and sign our wills. We had them drawn up before we went to Vegas in September, but that was only the first step. I know it's a necessary precaution to make sure we're all taken care of, but it's just very disturbing to think about.

But anyway, back to the Christmas shopping. In the middle/end of November, most people working in the stores are still all friendly and helpful because the real mad holiday rush hasn't started yet. And I've been lucky that I'm usually able to get to the mall during the day, when most people are working. After leaving the lawyers yesterday we headed over to the nice mall. I finally got to show Chris my most favorite place ever, the Amex lounge. He was pretty impressed. And happy to grab a bag of goldfish. After that I made him leave so I could finish up Christmas shopping for him. But by that time, people were out of work and the mall was starting to get packed. And the store workers who were oh so helpful last week had been taken over by people seriously lacking in customer service skills (they seem to be everywhere nowadays). So it wasn't a fun shopping trip. But I am almost all done. Just a few more things to get.

Well, it's late. Here's the baby grinch: