Having a good week at home with Gavin. However, it's been a whirl-wind of errand after errand. Poor guy has taken his name in my car twice now. We had lunch today with Jeff at Leon's Full Service in Decatur. Very tasty! If you ever go, split the Frites and make sure you get the Goat cheese fondue as a dip. Yum yum!!!

At least I've made it to the gym twice this week- hopefully, I can go again tomorrow!

Looking forward to the 1st, we're going up to my dad's to see Joseph and Lynne, who are in town for a handful of days.

Christmas was a blast! Nevermind that it took us 3 hours to open all of Gavin's gifts...yes, the parentals (that would be me and Jeff) went a little overboard. I guess that's what happens when you start buying early! Oh well- Gavin had a blast and he's really enjoying his toys this morning.

I think we're going to try to go to Stone Mountain this afternoon with Mercedes and her clan. Should be fun- Gavin has so much fun with her daughter, Celtyn.

Merry Christmas all!

So we're on T-minus 1.5 days until Kris Kringle comes dashing to our roof and rolling down our chimney. Gavin is in full-force, "I'm-ready-bring-on-the-presents" mode. The stockings have been hung, the cookies are almost ready and yes, I'm still wrapping presents. It never fails, every year I say to myself, "Self, this year, we're going to start wrapping at least 3 presents a night starting mid-December. We're NOT going to wait until 2 or 3 days prior to the big day. That's just crazy and stresses you out every year." And yet, here I am, blogging, not wrapping presents, like I should be doing.

Guess I ought to get on that, huh?

Managed to get the first set of family gifts off today. Not too bad, certainly better than a couple of years ago when I didn't even send stuff out until AFTER the new year!

I'm listening to a Facebook seminar right now. Very interesting stuff- who knew that it's basically got so many users that it's the 3rd largest country in the world (even larger than the U.S.). Crazy!

Jeff and I watched a really interesting documentary last night- part of the "30 for 30" series on ESPN. It was about the Gretzky trade in the late 80s. Funnily enough, it was directed by a guy named Peter Berg. He's directed a handful of movies over the past 20 years and he was in a movie that my brother and I used to watch when we were younger. You know, one of those cheesy, straight to cable, B-level movies- can't remember the name, but it was about snow skiing.

The documentary went into the business transaction of the trade at first, but then the personal emotion Gretzky had about leaving Edmonton to go to LA. I remember the trade, and I remember his wife getting thrown under the bus (speaking of B-level movies- anyone care to guess her name?). She was just part of the overall thing- ultimately, it was Wayne's decision to go ahead- apparently, he had the Edmonton coach trying to get him to change his mind all the way up to the live press conference. Anyway, interesting stuff.

Love those kind of documentaries!

Gavin's Xmas program was last night. If I don't say so myself, he was one of the cutest on the stage!

I was such the gushing, proud parent when he started to actually sing (and rather loudly, might I add). He seemed to have a jolly good time and we enjoyed the program a bunch.

Afterwards, we all went out to dinner, where, we were all impressed again as he really behaved and ate most of his grilled cheese sammy. This is a feat upon itself in that we're oftentimes trying to shove food down his mouth!

So, when I first started blogging, not even sure how long ago, I really, really thought I'd be much better at keeping up with it than I obviously am. Sometimes, I have moments of creativity and words in my head that just have to get out, most times, however, I'm at a loss for words.

We at the Stevenson household have gone full-out, lights a blazin' Christmas at home. Gavin is finally getting to the age where St. Nick is more than a name, he's getting excited and anxious about the big party day. Last year, someone gave us the Elf on the Shelf. Have you seen that? It's totally adorable. We named ours Sparkle. Each morning, G man comes downstairs and goes searching. I kind of wondered if he would get into it at first, but with all the lights up and Santas strewn throughout the house, he totally gets it.

Funnily enough, we haven't even gotten our real Xmas tree yet. I've only got the artificial white one up on the back porch. Weather permitting, we'll cut our real one down this weekend. Yes, I did say "cut." Last year, Jeff and I, after purchasing our pre-cut tree from our church, drove by a couple of tree farms and got the itch. I kind of envision a non-snowy version of "Christmas Vacation." Although, secretly, I'm hoping it's pretty easy and lives up to my fairytale expectation of cutting down my own Christmas tree.

Hopefully, I'll remember to actually blog about the experience over the weekend!!!