Oh my goodness I think that I am way behind in my christmas shopping! I have too many people to shop for and too little of money to shop with! Not to mention I started way too late this year! If I had just started early I would have enough money to buy everyone a good gift and would not be struggling with not having enough money or time to do all of my christmas shopping! My advice to all is that you start you shopping in January and purchase 1 to 2 gifts every two weeks!

I love shopping for winter clothes for my family. Kohls is actually my favorite place to shop for every member of my family! Kohls has the cutest clothes for my 9 1/2 month old son. My husband can get some nice dressy clothes for work, and some handsome everyday weekend clothes. And for me, forget it, they have everything that I could ever possible want! The shoes there are simply great too. I get everyone in the family new shoes too!

I LOVE my son! He is simply wonderful! I read to him every day! I play with him constantly when I am home with him! We do everything together. Every night before his bed time we dance to some songs from One Republic and the Rascal Flatts! He loves to dance with his mom and dad! I do not think that you can have too much interaction with children no matter how young or old they are! My son, Dexter, is 9 1/2 months old and we do everything with him and because we encourage so many activities for him he is, according to his doctor, is smarter than the average 14 month old baby! He is so curoius about everything and has to know what everything feels like! I like to think that because of all the interaction that we encourage to have is what makes him so smart!

This is for all the bosses out there. I just started a new job today! My new boss left on a business meeting while I started doing some paper work, just like I figure it will be every day, but when she came back she had a rose and a $50 gas gift card in her hand for me thanking me for all of my future help! To all the bosses, this is how you make a new staff feel welcome! She knew that my car had horrible gas milage and was very thoughtful and bought me something that was just so sweet! It made me feel like I belong!

Milk is not that cheap and families can go through it pretty fast. CVS pharmacies always have a great deal on milk where you can get it for $2.18 a gallon. If you like the bags of milk, Kwik Trip is the place to go getting a gallon for a little more than CVS but less than a gallon jug of milk at Kwik Trip. If you have a family like mine where you go through milk incredibly fast then CVS or Kwik Trip are the places to go to purchase your milk!

I take my son and my dog for a walk every time I get a chance. I love taking walks so much. We always stop at a park along the way and go down the slides and swing for a while. On the way home our pug is too tired to walk so he rides in the bottom of the stroller, right below my son. It is the cutest thing to see. Everyone who looks over while driving has to laugh if they notice my over weight pug riding in the bottom of the stroller with his tongue hanging out!

I recently went to a wedding. It was a beautiful small wedding. It was both the bride and grooms 3rd wedding so they did not want any gifts or money. They just wanted their family and friends to come and celebrate with them. It was so amazing, it was outside and freezing but simply beautiful. Dancing is the best part of weddings if you ask me. I did not leave the dance floor even when they were passing out the cake. So I did not even get to try the cake. But everything else was amazing so I am going to just assume that the cake was delicious too. I would love to attend a lot more weddings if they were all like the one I went to last weekend!

I love Sesame Street. It is a nice whole some, innocent TV show. My son loves it. It helps him learn things like shapes, colors, numbers, and other things like problem solving and sharing. It is brighly colored and full of loud but not scary sounds so it is something children enjoy.  It keeps children occupied and gives mommy and daddy a chance to sit down and relax or a chance to get something done.

I love DVRs. They save my life some days. On days when I am really busy at home or I am sick, I just turn on my DVR and pick out one of the many PBS shows that I have recorded on our DVR and let my son watch TV while I either get a bunch of things done or just rest on the couch and watch Sesame Street or Curious George with him. A different reason that I love my DVR is because sometimes I am not home to watch my shows and I really can’t miss them so I just schedule a recording and I can watch them anytime I want to! It is a wonderful thing to have!

I bought some fall cookie cutters. It came in a pack of 6. There is an owl, a maple leaf, an oak leaf, a rooster, an acorn, and a pumpkin. I just took simple sugar cookie recipe and after making the dough I split the dough into 5 different bowls and then I take different food coloring dyes. I dyed each bowl of cookie dough a different color like yellow, red, orange, brown, and green. Then I used the cookie cutters and cut out all different cookies in different colors then I took a different color of sprinkles for each color of cookie and put it on the cookie cut outs before I baked them. Always take them out before the recommended time and they will be very soft and chewy instead of crunchy!