Dec
31
Welcome! It’s another holiday Friday confession extravaganza here at the House of Peevish!
Okay, not really. It’s kinda boring, actually.
I confess:
- …that I can’t really be arsed about New Year’s Eve, so once again we’re staying home where it is warm and dry and oh yeah I can go to bed early after watching a movie and eating snacks. That’s my idea of a Happy New Year, buster.
- …that tomorrow is our second Christmas, so I am wrapping presents this afternoon. Santa was very accommodating of our travel plans this year.
- …that my daughter has been up in the middle of the night coughing for I don’t know how many nights this week and the lack of sleep is starting to get to me. I have a perpetual headache and I am ridiculously tired. PLEASE DOG WON’T SOMEBODY INVENT COUGH MEDICINE THAT IS SAFE FOR THREE YEAR OLDS.
- …that I am still really crazy thrilled for Rana and Yvan and their soon-to-be-united little family.
- …that I am not making any resolutions for the New Year. Well, not as such. But I am restarting my healthy eating plan that somehow went knockers-up sometime around the end of November. And I am starting some mini-exercise challenges as well. And I am involved in an “11 projects in 2011″ knitting challenge. Okay, so maybe not resolutions, but still… PLANS. And, given how I have gorged myself over the holidays, I am actually not feeling too bad about getting back on the wagon.
- …that I am sad because there are some things my daughter has been saying that I wish we had captured on video before they disappear. They are just little baby-talk things, that all kids have as they learn to speak, but they are such precious parts of her growing up that we treasure and will miss so much when they are gone. Things like her way of saying “Good Morming!” and “Opee door!” and “Noooo! No hippos!” and singing her little songs. But I noticed this morning that “Good morming!” has been replaced, and she now says a proper “good morning” to us when she gets up. And it makes me a little sad and wistful. Okay, a LOT sad and wistful. I don’t want her babyhood to end.
- …that, while we were away, my husband took the time to pack our DVD of “White Christmas” and make sure we watched it on Christmas. This is something I have watched every year of my life, a tradition that has carried on all this time, and I was touched that, even though we were not at home, my husband would remember and make sure it continued.
- …that I was looking at my calendar and upcoming appointments and to do lists for the coming weeks, and how I have to DO ALL THE THINGS again, and I was suddenly overcome with NO NO NO END OF HOLIDAYS DO NOT WANT.
- …that I have yet to spend some Christmas and birthday gift money, and I am kind of excited to do so. One of the things I love about bargain shopping is getting the most bang for my buck, and this year I am going to have to make it last because we’ve got to tighten our belts a little after Xmas (because OH YEAH MAMA’S GOT A BRAND NEW CAR which needs paying for.) So I am already plotting and scheming about how to stretch that money and get bundles o’ stuff. I see many online clearance sections in my future.
- …that I am a tiny bit disappointed that there is not a big storm forecast this weekend. I could do with a little bit of being snowed in for a few days. And sleep — oh, how I could sleep.
I know – what is with New Year’s anyways…I would like to stay home tonight and snuggle on the couch watching movies…sigh…
You = the best! Thanks for making me laugh this year and for all your thoughtful comments.
P.S. I emailed you this week – did you get it?
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YES! to your new years eve plans! I think those rock! I shall be doing something similar.
And I love your plans. Who needs the pressure of resolutions anyway?
AANND..they do make cough syrup for 3 year olds. Hold on, let me find mine. It works really well too.
Ok. It’s Stodal brand. Either a health food store or Save on used to carry it. And it is labeled as Cough Syrup. You can also just use Sambucus syrup at a half adult dose, or the nasty Nin Jiom Chinese cough syrup. Again, half adult dose. My doc has told me I can use all that on B. Man, so it’s safe on That Baby as well.
Good luck! Coughs are the worst in toddler hood.
Hmmm, where did you find the 11 projects in 2011 knitting challenge? I would like to participate in that one.
Happy New Year!
On the cough thing, we use (for both the child and us) Brocosin – a homeopathic type syrup. It works. Honestly.
I hear you on wanting to capture that baby talk before it’s gone. It would be worth it to hire a documentary film crew for a day or so, just to capture everything.
And I hear you on finding safe medicine for wee toddlers. I’ve given Biset ‘Kids 0-9 Cough and Cold Homeopathic Medicine’ and it seems to work well. I’ve also used Stodal in the past. I really like the Triaminic or Neo Citran vapour flows (those little battery-operated fans) at night as they seem to do the trick as well.