Katerbug Blue

How was your Christmas? Ours was busy! Really it was stressed out crazy! My father in law had gone into the hospital for a quick (yeah right) angiogram and ended up being admitted for many days in order to get him stable. It was a close call for quite awhile, but I’m happy to report that he is finally home and resting comfortably. We had Christmas really, really late on Christmas day. My poor kids were such troopers. Most of us were just really worried about grandpa–so we are all thrilled that he’s feeling better!

You Are a Tree

You love every part of the holidays, down to the candy canes and stockings. And you’re goofy enough to put a Christmas tree ornament on your tree!

What Christmas Ornament Are You?

I found this cute little quiz through the Alexa Project over at Lynne’s blog. I thought it was so funny that at the bottom it says I’m goofy enough to put “A” Christmas Tree ornament on your tree–when one of my answers to the questions was…”I put so many ornaments on the tree that it tilts to one side”–ha ha! And some of them are indeed Christmas Trees! Yes, I am goofy!

Can you believe that today is the last Friday before Christmas? I just don’t know where the month (or year) has gone! Tonight we are making the traditional pilgrimage downtown to see the lights. I don’t know why this is a tradition, it’s always a miserably cold mob scene, but it’s tradition.

Today is the last day of school until January 7th. That sounds like such a long time. Normally I’m a little worried about this time and keeping the kids occupied, but mainly I’m really excited to get to sleep in. I’ve been exhausted lately, and I’m not really sure why. So possibly a trip to the doctor’s office is in order as well!

How is your Christmas shopping coming? My sister is done already! Over a week early, I’m so jealous. In fact, she isn’t just done shopping, she’s got everything but the Santa gifts wrapped and under the tree. She even found several cool things for her husband which is honestly the hardest part of Christmas shopping.

I am getting into the Christmas mood. I haven’t been blogging as much recently due to the fact that the kids have been busy with different holiday productions, and I’ve been trying to bake to get my neighbor gifts out. It’s so nice not being the new ones in the neighborhood anymore. We actually have friends to talk to rather than that awkward meet and greet phase!

Oh well, back to my shopping list writing!

It’s snowing, again! I barely got the shoveling done yesterday and now there are four more inches. Why oh why didn’t I head out and buy that snow blower yesterday?

My oldest started to help me out yesterday, which was really sweet of him. But then before he was finished he was pulled away to his best friends house to build snow forts. Now I’m all for the fun of childhood, but sadly he took the only snow shovel we have and he left it there. So tonight when my husband got home and needed to shovel, we had to wake him up, bundle him up in his coat and boots and send him outside to find the snow shovel. He was not happy, but neither was dad, so it all balanced out!

How Fun! I got tagged today by Karen. It’s cool, I rarely get tagged at all–and by Karen! I actually have laid eyes on this person–isn’t that so bad! In Vegas at Postie Con–I was sooooooo sick, that I only caught the afternoon session of the conference and part of the after party at Tao–but Karen really was really nice. However, I am such a boring person, that I have no idea what to say! So…

Here’s how it works:

You have to come up with seven “facts” about yourself and post these rules:

1) Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.
2) Share 7 facts about yourself.
3) Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.
4) Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

So…here we go!

1. I come from a family of SEVEN. In this crowd, (including spouses there’s 14) there are two Robyns and two Kellys.
2. I met, got engaged to and married my husband at work.
3. I want to get a little Jackapoo named Wasatch.
4. I met a sister I hadn’t seen in over 25 years last summer. She’s a blogger too.
5. I have a niece that shares my same name. Her name is Blakelynn Kate, my name is Blake and my daughterss name is Kate.
6. I follow my sister Robyn from one state to another. So far we’ve lived in Utah, Arizona and now Chicago.
7. I would love to be an ultrasound technician if I ever needed to get a job outside of the home.

See, I’m pretty boring!

I killed myself today! I finished all of my Christmas shopping for all but one child–and he’s pretty easy. But when I got home from shopping, it was time to shovel the walks. OH MY ACHING BACK! I definitely want a Snow Blower for Christmas now…this was MURDER! The bottom of the driveway is total ice, and I will have to go tomorrow to purchase the ice melter before I actually head out to take a hack at it! As for now, I’m heading up to bed with my hot water bottle!