mental vomiting

It is nice to have Christmas on a Friday. This allows for the day after Christmas to be one of choice and possible leisure.

I have stayed in bed longer than usual. I have spent the last hour or so wrestling, physically, mentally and emotionally with Ash over the concepts of "this is my bed, not yours. When did you climb in here anyway? Stop touching or curling your fingers in my shirt. You are pushing me off my own bed, I have been holding on to the edge for the last half hour with a constant state of tension in my back just to maintain my balance. Why don't you get back in your own bed or go sit on the new desk chair that Santa brought you. Go draw me a detailed picture with a hundred snow men or just lay still. Go play Wii with Cam, I hear him banging around by the TV. Let me read the rest of my book. Have you gone to the bathroom yet this morning. Don't you think it would be a good idea to try. Why are you ignoring me?"

Wife is back in bed for a moment having spent a good amount of the wee hours treating her body like a grocery store for the benefit of an 8 lbs grunting, squeaking, squawking bundle of pink fluff. It is really lucky for her sake that the fluff is kinda cute.

Christmas lesson confirmed again. Less is more and less is ok. The kids are content, happy with the presents received. No coments about less presents. No counting the number of gifts. No complaints.

I enjoyed giving gifts to Mom, Dad, Marleen, Joe (although I had no part in concept or compiling of that gift, I just handed it to them) Ben and Jayar. I hope that they liked them. Some thought actually went into the gifts with hopes that they might enjoy them.

I plan on having the neighbor rip a few pieces of door trim for me this morning. I will install them and begin caulking all the new trim in the basement. Then the only thing left to do is tile the bathroom floor, install baseboards throughout the basement, paint the basement, install trim around the doors in the bathroom, paint those, have the finish electrical installed, have the finish plumbing installed, carpet.

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Hospital Times

7 lbs 7 oz
19 1/2 inches

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We can shut the window again

It is freezing.

The sheet rock was hung today. We have walls of sorts. They should start the taping and mudding tomorrow.

The baby is scheduled to arrive on Sunday, December 6th.

I am taking two weeks off to sit around and hold the baby.... and paint and baseboards and tiling the basement bathroom and finish electrical.

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