Are you ready for Christmas? I'm not. And to top it all, Eric's boss hasn't given him his paycheck yet. WTF? Who does that? If you are running a business, you pay your employees when they work. We have kids and expenses. He has already taken a pay cut..and now this crap. The state of the economy has really hurt a lot of people. Right now no one is having any work done on their houses until after Xmas, which sucks if you are in the construction business. After this job Eric is doing is finished...he probably won't have any work until after Jan. 1st. Fortunately he has a few prospects to keep the family going until then. But it does make finishing shopping for Christmas and paying the bills hard. At least I have already bought a few gifts. This sucks...

Today I put up our Christmas tree. That sucker is an all day job...it's over 7 feet tall...and I'm 5'3!! My Mother came over tonight to help. Thank god. It made the job a lot easier and more fun. Nathan helped too. Brandon even put on a few ornaments, maybe 3, before stopping to watch TV. It is a very large tree, and it looks beautiful in here, festive, like Christmasville. I do enjoy decorating for the holidays. Tomorrow I think I am going to put some extra light strings in the kids rooms. I did it last year, and they liked it. I have a 6 foot tree I bought 2 years ago for $4 (brand new, after Xmas sale!). I am considering putting it on our back deck, but I don't know if I will feel like decorating a 3rd tree. I don't even know why I bought that tree, but at $4...it was too hard to pass up. I am so tired now. This was a busy weekend and I could use another day to rest. Christmas Break is coming soon. Got that to look forward to.

Took the boys to the Christmas Parade tonight, and froze my buns off! Dang it was freakin' cold! And I even had on mittens, a scarf, and brought a blanket to cover up with! But it was Nathan's first parade, and he had a ball. He waved at every float that went by, clapped his hands at all the marching bands, and kept trying to go and join in several times. It was worth freezing to see him enjoy himself so much. Brandon kept wanting to go...because he was afraid he was gonna miss wrestling...but I told him WE were gonna have a parking lot brawl if he didn't hush, which he thought was funny. He wanted to brawl with me, but I told him he could never beat me. Boy loves him some wrestling. That's all he has on his Christmas List. Wrestling stuff. Geez.