Christmas has come and gone

Well, we are now into January and things are slowing down. The Christmas season is over....we just had our last Christmas party (Gary's Work)....well we have one more party that we were supposed to fit into the christmas season...but no one had any extra time so we'll meet in January.

One major thing that I have noticed is that Declan loves being busy during the day. He likes getting up and going somewhere. When we are home all day, he becomes anxious to get into everything. It is just too long in our small house. I didn't work at all this week, and I think that when I start getting supply teaching jobs, it will help. I think I need to make it part of my weekly plan to have play dates with other kids. I keep making excuses when I think of getting together with friends and their kids during the day....but when I think of it....I have at least 4 different moms and kids that I could easily get together with.

Today is a lazy Saturday. We were out last night late and now we just want to take it easy. We are still finding it hard to balance
'taking it easy' with a one year old running around. We've always done sleeping in switches. Today Gary gets to sleep in. So basically I get up with Declan and feed him breakfast...and then he watches t.v. (Saturday morning Cartoons:)) and then I put him into his play pen for play pen time....and then I go back to bed. Either Gary gets up with him when Declan is done having play pen time, or if I don't fall back to sleep, I'll get up with him. Then we switch the next sleep in day. It works fairly well except that we end up wasting a lot of the day. Normally by about 10:00 I am ready for the day and the house is all tidy. On a sleep in day, I may not be ready for the day until after 1. It just makes me feel groggy.

Declan has been able to watch t.v. for a longer period of time without him crying out for one of us. However...I hear him right now (he must be finished munching away on his cheerios). I'll make this a wrap. I'll post pictures next time.