My Momma Always Taught Me: Lesson One

My mom always taught me from the time I was small that you should always be thankful for any gift that is given to you.  Usually, gifts given aren't gifts earned.  People are giving you something out of the kindness of their hearts & due to generosity and thoughtfulness on their part.  People are NEVER required to give you anything and you are lucky, if you do receive one, especially if it is not a gift you did anything to earn aside from exist.  People who do not show gratitude, appreciation, or thankfulness when receiving a gift make me sick.  Those who make me the sickest; however, are those who express disdain or disgust when given a gift they don't particularly like.  The worst offenders are the ones who express these negative feelings in the presence of the gift giver.  Expressing generosity and giving of yourself and then being rejected or unappreciated can really hurt and is just plain unnecessary.  Even if you receive a duplicate gift, do not tell the gift giver as you are opening a gift.  Just say thank you and be appreciative.  You can always ask them for the receipt later so you can make an exchange or return; but it is preferable to not do this in front of everyone watching you open your gifts, though.  I have heard of some particularly disgusting examples of rude gift receivers lately & it absolutely makes me seethe.  It hurt my feelings and made me want to wring the person's neck, and I wasn't even the gift-giver.  Also, when people open gifts and then look for more or look at you as if saying, "that's it?" make me sick.  Be glad you got anything at all.  You are not entitled to gifts and the world does not owe you a thing.

Lucky

I am so lucky that my husband is extremely active in the raising of our son.  I know that a lot of men think they don't have to pull as much of the weight in raising their children as their wife does, but my husband does not agree with that line of thinking and insists that he pull his weight and help me out as much as possible and for this I am extremely and eternally grateful.  I don't know how I would survive without him.  I don't know how single parents do what they do.  I may have many other issues in life but one fact remains; Chris is a great father & Alexander is lucky to have him for a dad.  I have no complaints in the fatherhood department.  Chris lets me go out and have some down time for myself regularly so I don't go insane.  He is great with the baby & the baby adores him.  He is just as good, if not better with him than I am.  It amazes me every day. Thanks, Chris, I don't know what Alexander & I would do without you.  I am confident that Alexander will have a strong father figure in his life; and that's how good men are made  ;)

Merry Shitmas

Decorating for Christmas is a pain in the ass.  I cut my hands open on broken glass stuff when I was unpacking all the crap from last year, and then to top it off I broke my two favorite ornaments; one was personalized... why... why?!  I guess there's no point in losing sleep over it, but I know that I will definitely not be able to replace one of the two that I broke.  Dammit.

Bebe meets the police

I took Bebe to work today & he met the watch commander... and he smiled & laughed at him... it was pretty cute  :) 

Santa was cool!

Bebe had his first encounter with SANTA today.. the pictures came out really cute!!! 

This santa was cool, I liked him... he wasn't loud and obnoxious, and I think I only heard one small "ho, ho, ho" out of him the whole ten minutes we were standing in line.  He seemed like a grandpa who holds babies a lot, the way he took the baby from me & held him seemed very natural & comfortable. 

I am thinking I should've started a savings account a long time ago to use JUST FOR PICTURES... they are expensive, and I always want every single picture that ever gets taken of him!

Woohooooo today is the worst day at work I have had in a loooooooong time, shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

Bad mom alert!

I left the baby for about 2 minutes to play on his jungle gym while I went outside to help Chris with something in the garage, and while I was gone, he rolled himself over from his back to his stomach all by himself for the very first time!  I was shocked & awed, but it just figures that he would do this in the very brief period of time that I had stepped away!  I missed his first roll-over.  He hates being on his tummy, too, but I walked back into the house to find him on his tummy & contentedly drooling all over himself & his clothes  :)

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loca

methinks loca had a poopkabob for dinner and an ass sundae for dessert

methinks Lady has apple phlegm

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swingin

my baybay

mr fussy pantaloons in his swing

Yay, it works! Too cool! Is cool an outdated word now?

Maybe I will figure this out sometime today

Ok, figured out the mobile blog despite my severe computer illiteracy; should be interesting!

Ready or not

Time to christmas shop.  Normally, I would have most of it done by now, but with a baby, ain't gonna happen.  I don't even have a list made up yet of who I need to buy for.  I think I will do most of my shopping online this year.  Anyone know of any cool websites to buy unique stuff from?  I usually do most of my shopping on amazon.com.

I found my feet!

Alexander found his feet today and started using them right away to roll himself over... it's only going to get more exciting from here.  He does something new & cool every day.  Babies definitely make life an adventure.  Just the first two months drain the absolute life out of you -- miss them but glad they're over!