Walking Backwards

Goodness, that was just a lot of time spent doing nothing. It feels like I've been working on this thing for hours now. I very well might have been. It still isn't finished yet either. I still have to add links to some of the blogs I read and I have to figure out how to get the picture at the top to stop tiling itself. At least it looks better than it did and I am a whole lot happier with it. The baby finally took his nap at 5 this evening after spending a great deal of time just laying there and acting silly. I got tired of waiting for him to crash and started working on this template at about 4 and let him watch Baby Santa on the couch. He was perfectly happy doing this and got mad if I went over to try to cuddle him. What an independent baby. He wanted to be by himself most of the day today, so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. I just hope he is a little different when he wakes up because we need to run errands tonight. Shopping just isn't much fun when you have a toddler who is arguing with you to let him do his own thing. We have to go tonight because tomorrow is going to be full of fun and excitement, dropping off all of our adopt-a-family gifts and touring his pre-school.

I am still trying to come up with things to do while our family is here. I want to keep them busy so we don't spend a lot of time staring at each other and talking. When we all start talking I get really nervous and answer all of the questions asked of me in the dumbest way possible. Joe's family must think that I'm totally nuts. Plus, the questions that they are going to ask me, I don't have answers for. I have no idea when I am going to be going back to school, I don't know if we are going to have any more kids, and I don't know when we are going to be able to spend our vacation there. The questions I do know the answers to I don't want to answer because I fear it will begin the freezing hostility that usually takes over when people have disagreements about their principles. I just hope they don't make any comments on how I am raising my son, because I just don't have enough self-control to let that slide by. I should be able to come up something that will keep them entertained for four days. Hope, hope . . .

I came to the conclusion today that Christmas is fast approaching, so I should get my act together. The original plan was to have everything done by the first, but I can laugh at that now. I did get a lot done in November, but between the middle of November and now, things kind of fell by the wayside. Hopefully I can get motivated again.