Today, my “30 Days of Thankful” item is the wonderfulness of online shopping. I’m not a big shopping fan as it is, but my extremely limited time to actually do it makes it even worse. If I could, I would do every bit of shopping online. You can find so many deals and it saves so much time. Thanks to online shopping, I’m just about done Christmas shopping for the girls, and, thanks to some bargain shopping, they are getting way more than they otherwise would. I know Christmas is not all about gifts and what you spend, but it’s that one time of year these little ones deserved to be a little spoiled, so I like to take the opportunity to do so.
This week is a little odd, work wise. Christian’s mom works in a grocery store, in the bakery. So, of course, they get pretty busy close to the Holiday’s. She ended up having to work today and Wednesday – and with us being off Thursday and Friday, it made sense to just “give” her the whole week off. I was a little upset about this when the issue first came about, but it actually turned out to be kind of a good thing. It gives her a break, saves us some money (which we can put towards Thanksgiving dinner) and, of course, gives me a chance to spend some time with the girls. However, I just cannot take an entire week off work…that’s a lot of lost leave time, and the work would just pile up, out of control. So my mom will be watching the girls on Wednesday, which should be a pretty quiet day at work, giving me plenty of time to fly through some work.
The girls were pretty good today. We have an issue going on with Amelia lately that is pretty frustrating. Amelia is a big biter…she has chewed up her crib, she chews on anything and everything, and when she’s upset, she bites. She has only ever bitten Olivia…usually when Olivia won’t leave her alone, basically as a defense mechanism. Lately though, she’s started biting herself…to the point of breaking the skin. Then she cries and scream in pain. I don’t know what to do about it. We grab her hand, and sternly tell her “no”, but she keeps doing it. Of course I pick her up and baby her afterwards, because she’s in pain, so I suppose I need to stop doing that before it just turns into an attention seeking thing. It does worry me though nonetheless – it does not seem like a normal thing to do – at least not to the point of actually hurting herself. Ugh, these kids!
This morning the girls disappeared for a while, and everything got quiet. I went looking for them, only to find them cuddled up in my bed, watching TV. Seriously, they are too smart for their own good!
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