Another Baby? Over my dead body!

Ok so I'm a few days late, but Happy New Year!! We didn't do anything for New Year's; heck we were in bed by 9:30 (wow I feel old). I had a lot of things I had planned to do on New Year's day though and I didn't even get half of them done. That's what happens when you have kids. You make to do lists so you know what you're not getting done.

We did get all of Christmas decorations put away (well except for the lights still on the house that never even worked) and put them back in storage. While we were reorganizing our storage unit, I decided to pull out some baby stuff to freecycle. I pulled out the walker (that my son never even used) and the swing. My husband wanted to get rid of the bassinet too but I said nope.

"Why not"

"Cause I'm not ready to have another baby yet" and he looked at me like I was nuts.

"Huh?"

"Don't you know anything about Murphy's Law? When a woman gets rid of all her baby stuff, she gets pregnant soon after. That's the way it works. So we can't get rid of too much stuff cause we're not having another baby right now"

"Whatever"

Anyway, here is the video I promised of my Christmas Day mess. Everything hadn't been brought in quite yet, but you get the picture.

You could barely walk through the living room by the end of the day. Here's what our living room looked like only 2 days later.

And here it is January 3 and we still don't have everything out of it's packaging yet. But we're getting there...slowly. Maybe the kids will have all their new stuff opened by March.

Christmas should be a 3 day holiday!!

At a bare minimum. A week would be great. But I'd be happy with 3. A day for last minute preparation, Christmas Day, and a day to recuperate. I am completely exhausted. And our house is a mess. You can't even hardly walk through the living room because there are toys everywhere. Some toys aren't even out of their boxes yet. Guess I know what I'll be doing this weekend. We even took down our Christmas Tree Christmas evening so we could have a little more room to put stuff. My husband and I really spoiled our kids this year. We started buying stuff in October and didn't finish until 2 days before Christmas. This was the first year we were really able to do this so we went all out. Ereka actually got tired of opening presents Christmas morning. She really wanted to start playing right away. I took a video of our mess Christmas afternoon, but I can't upload the video off the camera until I get some stuff put away or at least into some kind of organization. I can't even get to the computer. I'll try to get it done this weekend. When you see it, then you'll really believe me. I will probably be doing lots of reviews for this blog over the next couple of weeks. I researched every single toy I bought this year and read tons of reviews so I want to be sure to leave reviews for others too. So far I only have to exchange one toy. We'll see how well the new one works out before I give my opinion of that one. But like I said, we still have toys that haven't been taken out of their packages yet. There just aren't enough hours in the day. Like I said; Christmas should be a 3 day holiday.

Amazon Links

I posted a couple of new links on the right side here. The first one is for Amazon searches. Amazon is really great for researching products. They have real consumer reviews for most of their products and they will show you the best price for the item, new or used. The other link is for Amazon's MP3 downloads. This particular link will take you to the download page for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas CD. This is a really great Christmas CD to have. Amazon has millions of songs to download too. You can download by the song or download the whole CD!