Cast your vote

Boy or girl? That is the question to (hopefully) be answered next week, just in time for Christmas. If you ask my co-workers, they all say it's a boy. Ask my brother-in-law and it's a boy. Ask Jeff and he says it better be a girl. Me? I have no clue! A few weeks ago I had a dream that we had a boy but didn't want to take it home from the hospital with us. Then we had a girl but she had dark, brown skin and if you've seen the gene pool this kid's been dealt with, you know all too well it's got no chance of any olive complexion!

I just hope everything is ok on the ultrasound and really, does it matter if it's a boy or girl? Ok, well besides the thought of having to start all over in the clothes department and somehow convince Jeff to repaint the bedroom blue if it's a boy, as long as it's healthy I'm happy. I just hope this time around Jeff doesn't pout for a weekend (until he makes a new shoe purchase to cheer himself up) if our little girl is really a boy, like he did when he found out Pearl didn't have a penis!

SO... cast your vote - boy or girl?

Countdown

I'm only 12 days late but at least we now have an official Advent calendar for Christmas. I really don't know how people come up with these ideas because anything remotely crafty in my home is some idea I've stolen (thanks Laree). This was supposed to be a quick two hour project but ended up taking my sister and I two nights, about 8 hours, and lots of re-dos (and I'm still debating on starting over on a few of my squares). I still think my mom should just part with her cute Advent calendars! Who would have thought a muffin tin, magnets, and some paper could be so complicated? Of course getting sick in the middle of the craftiness didn't help either and then came finals for Kimmy but we finally finished! Jeff is just happy to have some candy now (as is my chocolate addicted daughter) and has already decided he is modifying the original design and adding a bag of some sorts to put the numbers in that he pulls off every night. Well once we get some holes in them to hang up.

I still think Kimmy's is cuter than mine (first one below) but hey, I know for sure ours has better candy in it!