this week {12.14 to 12.20}

this week...

~ i did 10 loads of laundry ~

~ i wore my new santa shirt. super cute. ~

~ i worked from home three days ~

~ i watched the mentalist, criminal minds and fringe ~

~ i shopped at bi-lo, walgreens (twice), food lion, cvs, and wal-mart ~

~ i saved $113 at bi-lo (spnent $106)

~ spencer decided to try out for the archery team at his school ~

~ spencer had his first two basketball practices of the season ~

~ i finished up the december newsletter for the neighborhood ~

~ i received a five-year certificate from my company and i ordered my gift ~

~ matt worked two extra shifts during his "long off" ~

~ coleman brought home some of his holiday art from daycare ~

~ i saved $56 at walgreen's (spent $34)

~ i called to reconnect our phone line at home. matt won that battle ~

~ i arranged for my sister to watch coleman one night next month so matt and i can go out for his birthday ~

~ spencer had two project presentations at school (science and social studies) ~

~ i took a half vacation day on thursday afternoon so that spencer and i could bake and decorate cookies~

~ friday was spencer's last day of school in 2009 ~

~ it was 27 degrees on the way to school thursday. seriously. ~

~ i sent two teacher gifts, cookies, pencils and a book to school with spencer ~

i made several of these little gifts - as part of teacher's gifts, but also for mail and newspaper carriers

~ it kind of snowed. a few flakes. ~

~ i planned out our meals for the rest of the year. very proud of myself. ~

~ coleman got sick. yuck. ~

~ i put together seven gifts for the kids at daycare and a gift for aj ~

~ we missed the christmas party at daycare (because coleman was sick) so we got the gifts from aj and opened them at home ~

~ coleman's favorite part of the gifts were the bows ~

~ i had to buy two new thermometers ~

~ i spent the weekend locked inside with a sick baby, so not much excitement ~

signs of sickness...basket of meds, bowl of clean pacifiers and syringes, notebook of medicine times, thermometer readings, etc.

~ i took 76 photos. you can see them here: christmas season 2009 and december 2009 ~