Ten on Tuesday

1. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESS!!!!! Jess is one of "my people" and has been featured numerous times on the blog before. She has been my besty since I was a freshman in high school when we were on the Oklahoma Catholic Youth Advisory Board together. While on the board we designed tons of awesome t-shirts and became best friends, including communicating by snail mail (yes that is how far back we go). We have been through thick and thin together and I love her like a sister! Happy birthday Jess, hope you had a great day. Your present will be mailed tomorrow, so just a tad bit late, but it doesn't matter because all of November is Jessikapalooza.
2. I am exhausted and am pretty sure I will be for the next decade. I am trying to just come to terms with it, however I miss sleep and so dream of a day where I could go to bed and sleep, uninterrupted, until something crazy like 8am. That would be amazing. That may be my top Christmas present request!
3. On the Christmas present front I have made great progresson my Christmas gift list. I am not really inspired so I apologize in advance to everyone whom I have bought presents for, not my greatest showing, but again see number two about how freaking exhaused I am, hence uninspired.
4. We have decided to get Zane a play kitchen for Christmas. I am, not so secretly, excited about it because I desperately wanted a play kitchen and play food when I was growing up. Honest to God I use to use leaves of different plants as different kinds of food. I can't decide if that was ingenious or terribly sad, but either way I'm super pumped about Zanes miniture kitchen and food. I think he will love it because he truly loves cooking with me and spends most of his time with some sort of kitchen utensil in his hand.
5. In depressing/terrifing news there was a body of a little boy found right down the street from the last apartment we lived in, which is about five minutes from where I live now. Sounds like there were parental issues and not some random person stealing babies, but maybe I live in the ghetto. I don't think I do, but maybe?? Turning on the house alarm tonight for sure.

6. I have signed up for a new scrapbooking class online. It was a free, self paced classed, entitled "Embrace Imperfection." For those of you who know me well you know that I am very OCD when it comes to things being even, in line, and keeping all things symmetrical. This is one of the reasons why I didn't scrapbook for so long and why I still struggle getting started doing pages now. I like all things to match and be nice and evenly spaced. I'm hoping this class helps and doesn't stress me out, we shall see!

7. I want to do some baking for Thanksgiving but not sure what to make or if my baking skills will be needed at our Thanksgiving festivities. I am thinking about making turkey cookies like I did last year a maybe a pie or two. That sounds great on paper, now I just have to find the time. Zane loves baking so maybe we will try to do that while I'm off the few days before Thanksgiving.
 
8. Zane's new adorable habit is giving kisses to everyone and everything. He just recently started giving kisses to inanimate objects like his stuffed animals, toys, or characters in books we are reading. Tonights bed time book was "How Do Dinasours Say Goodnight" which has a part where the dinasours give their mommy's a kiss and get into bed. He then had to "kiss" every dinasour on the upcoming pages. His book kisses really just consist of him pressing his cheek against the page, but it is still super cute and so sweet. He can be stingy with his kisses for people, but he loves  kissing Mooly and Dale, no problem.
 
9. Is it bad that I still have Halloween decorations up? I just decorate for fall and halloween as a combo and then never take down the trick or treat signs and ghosts. They are cute and Thanksgiving is only three weeks later, I say it isn't worth the hassel. I'll go straight from ghosts to Christmas trees, I'm fine with it.
 
10. Lastly, many thanks to my mom for making the quick trip up here last weekened to keep Zane and I company. I probably would have died from exhaustion had you not been here. We had a great time, shopped, played, and had some intense games of actual scrabble, not even on our phones, can you imagine. I have to say I swept mom in a best out of three series, which I am pretty proud of!