Happy December

How glad I am that it is  December!  It makes all this snow seem appropriate (although THIS MUCH snow is NEVER appropriate).  And it makes our trip to California only 10.5 days away, and counting!  Luke can't stop talking about "my friends the whales who live in the ocean in California".  Apparently last night a whale knocked on his window and told him he wanted to give Luke a hug.  When I asked Luke what he told that fish out of water Luke said, "Go home to the ocean and wait for me there".  How do you like that?  My kid speaks whale.

With Christmas looming, card business is booming and I am in my element designing...at least I hope it's my element because I enjoy doing it, and I like what I produce...I hope my clients like what they pay for!  But time is running short in that department and very soon I will have to start turning clients away.  Which makes me sad.

In the down-time, of which there isn't much, we are watching episodes of Frasier with one hand on the belly to feel the little one kicking and rolling around. Derek felt the baby move for the first time two nights ago.  The same night I had a horrible bloody nose and got blood all over the bedclothes.  I was distraught (about the comforter), and when I asked Derek how to get blood out of blankets he said, "Get new blankets".  Which I will take as permission to buy an entire new sheet/blanket set including a down comforter.  We've lived in Canada how long without owning a down comforter? Derek has always thought it ridiculous that I owned a heated blanket all my life growing up in Southern California and he grew up in snowy Manitoba, sleeping in the cold basement with nothing but a cotton comforter.  I say, "poor Derek", not "ridiculous Laura". I like to be warm!

Also, I am recovering from a terrible terrible no good very bad cold.  "Recovering" might be the wrong word. I am sick with a cold, and hoping recovery is around the next corner.  Wretched cough keeps me awake at night, and the bloody nose was the result of a particularly vicious bout of sneezes.  Ick.

jonny's java....caramel mocha.  a flat tire treat.

To top it all off, I got out of the house today after THREE housebound days because the grocery situation was getting desperate, and wouldn't you know it - my 1/2 hour trip turned into 3 hours because we got a flat on the van, had to get  Derek to bring out the WBS compressor so we could drive three blocks to the tire repair shop and then ended up running errands with my mother-in-law who was across the parking lot at the mall. Going to the mall is always good because I get Jonny's and Luke gets a carousel ride (we rarely actually pay to make it go round...he just likes to climb on it).

So here's a mad-dog video to make you smile. All my best wishes as you prepare your hearts and homes for a meaningful Christmas season. I will possibly post once or twice more before we leave, but once we're in CA, all bets are off, we may be too busy with the whales, you see

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