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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
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Today is my last day of work until January 3rd!!! I'm so excited! It should even be a pretty easy day of work!
Today: Work (meetings, and editing papers) then Grocery shopping, cooking dinner and wrapping presents with my neighbor (she's been hiding "santa's" gifts for her kids in our basement!
Tomorrow: SLEEP IN!!! Then cleaning house. I need to do a major overhaul of the entire house. It is getting out of control.
Wednesday: Probably finish up some last minute Christmas shopping stuff. (DH wants a tin of popcorn for FIL but we can't seem to find the right kind anywhere. If anyone has seen the tins with the cheddar and carmel popcorn, let me know! We looked at Sams Club and Target yesterday with no luck! I will look at Kroger tonight, and possibly Meijer.)
Thursday: Relax! and then grab dinner with a friend who lives in NJ, who is back in town for the holidays!!! I'm so excited to see her!
Friday: Pick up MIL and FIL from the airport in the afternoon and head to Kalamazoo!
Saturday: Church for Christmas and then MIL and FIL's Christmas eve party (it's always a blast!)
Sunday: Do Christmas stuff with both immediate families
Monday: Christmas stuff with Mom's side of the family, then back to Ann Arbor.
Then I'm off the whole week after that!!! Woo hoo!
Serendipity3, South Beach, Miami, FL 2012
I'm working Monday-Thursday this week.
Monday- Work....???
Tuesday- Work, help my nephews make ugly Christmas sweaters for their youth group party. Anyone have any ideas?
Wednesday- Work, Christmas fellowship party at Church
Thursday- Work...Grocery shop for baking supplies
Friday- Baking with the other ladies in my family.
Saturday- Christmas eve party at my parents house with my mom's side of the family.
Sunday - Church and then Christmas with my dad's side of the family at my parent's house again, then to my MIL's house for Christmas with her.
I'm off work all next week and can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today: Work
Tomorrow: Work then coffee w/ friends
Wednesday: Work, maybe come Christmas shopping or wrapping
Thursday: Work then maybe a solstice party
Friday: Work then Christmas with FIL and step MIL
Monday- overhaul clean of my house (if I ever get the motivation), making some cookies with the kids, wrapping presents after kids are in bed.
Tuesday- T's Christmas Program at preschool, maybe the dmv. Hopefully finishing up the wrapping and maybe getting a hair cut.
Wednesday- more cleaning and preparing for Christmas and finishing up last minute things. Hopefully getting to the gym to join
Thursday- not too much, working out.
Friday- our 'christmas eve' and we'll be doing family things and hanging out. Before bed we'll read "T'was the Night Before Christmas" and Santa will visit our house. I somehow have to figure a way to streamer/wrapping paper the kids doors without waking them.
Saturday- Our Christmas Day full of presents, fun, church, and packing for our trip to see family.
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NO WORK!!! My week is actually pretty busy..
today: take dd up to my work and show her off, haha and secretly hope that my boss gives me my christmas gift since he was out of the country last week. His gift is normally VERY nice and well worth me going up there on my day off..
tues: dd 18 month check up and Christmas shopping.
wed: wrap gifts
thur: meet up with my bff and her son to exchange gifts.
fri: grocery shop
sat: we have christmas with my family at my sisters, we will head over early and spend the whole day there relaxing watching christmas movies and letting the kids play, (total 9 nieces and nephews) and of course stuff our faces with food all day!
sun: christmas with my inlaws and dinner. i think i might invite my parents over for breakfast in the am since we won't see them during the day.
Mon-Thurs - work and run around like an idiot getting ready for Christmas. At some point this week, I need to put up our Christmas tree. Nope, that's not done yet. Oops! DH's family is coming for Christmas after Christmas, so I still have some time.
Fri - meeting a friend for some shopping. The day before Christmas Eve, we must be insane.
Today & Tomorrow & Thursday = cleaning, working out, making fudge!
Wednesday = helping my friend's church's children's Christmas party in the morning and then going to WICKED!
Friday = mother/daughter spa day and going to my Grandma's for our family Christmas party + girl cousins sleepover.
Saturday = CHRISTMAS EVE!! Donating blood, dinner at my parents, and going to my sister's bf's church to listen to them sing.
Today- Work then grocery shopping/running errands/dinner with H then going to my friends house to go over her save-the-date stuff with her
Tomorrow- Work then relaxing
Wednesday- Work then having a few friends over for a small get-together
Thursday- Work then a few of my cousins are coming over for a girls night of cooking/baking
Friday- baking cookies with all of my girl cousins, then going to my Grandma's for my mom's side of the family Christmas then girl cousin sleepover
Saturday- going to IL's for Christmas! and it's Christmas EVE!
Today: I'm home sick, hoping to rally and go into the office for the afternoon b/c I have tons to do.
Tuesday: DH defends his dissertation!!! I'm taking the day off work to go watch then celebrate.
Wednesday: work, clean like crazy, my sister is coming in the evening to stay with us for a few days
Thursday: work, more cleaning, wrap presents, grocery shop for Christmas dinner
Friday: day off work! Christmas with DH's mom
Saturday: I'm hosting Christmas with my mom and 3 siblings at my tiny apartment. Wish me luck...
Sunday: Christmas with DH's dad
Still haven't figured out if/when I'll see my dad and grandparents for Christmas, so that may get throw in in there somewhere. Ugh, this 4 Christmases business is crazy!
I did my shopping at Kroger this weekend and they had the popcorn tins - obviously I'm in a different area than you but all the stores usually carry the same stuff. They were by the seasonal items.
Working Monday - Thursday and it should be a fairly calm week - which will be very refreshing form the long days/weeks I"ve been having for the last couple months!
I'll be baking and cleaning after work every night this week.
Plus I have ballet class tongiht, pilates on Wednesday, and I need to get a few runs in.
Friday I have off and I'm making pierogi and kielbasa for Christmas with my parents, and in the eveing DH and I are going to Greenfield Village for Holiday nights.
Saturday we have church, and then Christmas Eve dinner at my parents
Sunday started out as only DH's parents coming over for Christmas, and now it's turned into his whole family - I'm nervous/excited to host my first big holiday!
Woo Hoo!!! I saw it a few weeks ago! It was great!!!!!!! Have fun!
Serendipity3, South Beach, Miami, FL 2012
Awesome! I'm definitely going to check it out then! Thanks!
Serendipity3, South Beach, Miami, FL 2012
Speaking on Kroger --
DONATE BLOOD on Friday, Saturday, and Monday for a $25 Kroger gift card! (go to americanredcross.org and use "grocery" as the sponsor code) Okay, there's my good deed.
In no particular order, I plan on helping my Mom finish the Christmas baking, clean the house, wrap presents, send some packages at the Post Office, return some things at Target, grocery shop, and get my haircut because it's really getting pretty absurd in the length department.
We're also signing the purchase agreement on the house tomorrow!! So excited!
I feel like crap, I still can't kick this thing I have, sore throat, coughing, etc.
Today: I had my moms group this morning, then I went to the doctor this afternoon.
Wed: dentist appt. for myself & DD
That's all the planned activities. DH is home this week, working today & Tues. One night we'll go out & look at lights, DD loves the lights on the houses.
Sat. my parents will come down. Christmas Eve service at church, then we'll eat & do gifts.
Sun. morning we'll head out to Pittsburgh where SIL lives & my IL's will already be there.
Sorry you're not feeling well!!! I hope you kick it before the weekend. Did the doctor have any suggestions or diagnose you with something?
Do you go anywhere in particular around here? We want to do this sometime this week too and debating whether we should just drive around neighborhoods or go to that Hines Dr people suggested last week.
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Losing it...Without Losing it