Maybe
I’m a bit late for my New Year post, but since this is my first post of 2014, I
hereby deem the timing appropriate.
Everything this year (er, last year?) has been a little delayed. We will be sending out New Years cards
instead of Christmas cards this year . . . mostly because I just didn’t have
time to do any holiday prep prior to the holidays. I’m lucky I got my Christmas shopping done on
time – thank you Amazon! Being a working (and pregnant) parent is time
consuming/hard/exhausting! (I have a
feeling that will be a theme to most of my posts for the next several months .
. .)
I am
very fortunate that my office closes during the week between Christmas and New
Years. Due to G’s daycare schedule, I
took an extra couple days and had two full weeks off of work! I haven’t had that much consecutive time off
since maternity leave! Bonus: we didn’t
have to travel this year. The furthest
we went was down to San Diego to do Christmas Eve with my parents. Aaron’s mom came up to us for Christmas Day.
Our
staycation meant I finally had time to accomplish things around the house that
I have been meaning to do for MONTHS!
Seriously, it took the entire two weeks to finally get caught up on
laundry! (Why do we have so many clothes?!)
I finally got around to breaking out my maternity clothes and packing away
the clothes that no longer fit. (I still have a couple pairs of non-maternity
pants/shorts that fit!) I cleaned out
G’s drawers of the clothes she’s outgrown and re-organized her closet.
One
of my favorite things this break was that I hired a cleaning team to come in
and clean the entire house – it was my anniversary present to Aaron (ok, it was
really more a gift to the both of us).
When I was a kid, I never understood the “cleaning before the cleaning
person coms” thing – but now that I’m a grown up, I totally get it! We had to clear all the surfaces and make
sure the clothes were picked up off the floor (even more motivation to get the
laundry all done!) so that the cleaning people could actually clean.
I got a great deal from Homejoy.
Overall their services were good – I only asked for general cleaning,
not a deep clean. We had 2 people for 3
hours and they managed to get to (almost) everything that I asked them to
do. My one complaint is that they didn’t
put everything back in their places. I
had to rearrange all the items on the surfaces they dusted to get them back to
where I wanted them. But really, if
that’s my only complaint, it must mean they did a decent job – right?
In
addition to getting the house more organized, we took advantage of the
beautiful Southern California weather and went out and about a bunch! We took G on her first trip to the Zoo and
went to Lake Balboa almost every other day!
I had originally thought that I might take G up to the mountains so she
could see snow for the first time. But
the weather here, near the coast, was so gorgeous that I was afraid we would
make a 2-hour drive for nothing, so that will have to wait. I’m sure there will be more opportunities
later this winter to take her to see snow.
Aaron
and I went to Disneyland and had an anniversary dinner at the Blue Bayou. We got to see “snow” at Disneyland as part of
their light show, so I guess that’s something.
Having grown up in San Diego, I always kind of wished that it would snow
just for Christmas so that I could experience a “White Christmas” like you see
in the movies and on TV. But then when
I’m wearing tanks tops and shorts on New Years Day and my sister texts me the forecast
of 0 degrees Fahrenheit from where she is in New York, I am very grateful that
snow is only a 2 hour drive away.
And
now a photo dump of some of our activities during the winter break:
G all dressed up and ready for Xmas Eve. |
This is the face of someone who is very tired and needs some rest before Santa comes! |
G with her gift from Santa (her very own "laptop" - maybe now she won't always try to play with Mommy & Daddy's? |
G was enthralled by the gorillas at the Zoo! |
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