~Christmas is Coming!~

So I've been very neglectful with my blog, sorry! I've just been busy with work and then sleeping on my couch when I'm home at night. I've basically been lazy, let's be honest. We have had been keeping busy around our house getting ready for Christmas! We have the decorations up, presents bought, and are working on crafts and baking in the next couple of weeks.

Today I'm at my sister Mary's house waiting on a delivery for her while she is at work so I thougth I would just jot a quick note! I'll put up some pictures for you all tonight or later this week!

What all happened in November?

Ethan finished his speech therapy sessions at the beginning of the month...we still aren't done with them but aren't planning on any more until May of next year. In the few weeks since we've been done going to sessions we have come leaps and bounds from where we were. He is talking a lot more now and using less gibberish sentences. He still adds them in so he sounds better but there is a lot less now! It is a nice change!

Ethan had swimming lessons in October that ended in November. He LOVED the pool and did really well in his lessons. We aren't planning on any more lessons until he is older and can move up a class. For what he learned in this class there is no sense in putting him in it again, we will just take him to the pool and do it ourselves. For the next level he needs to be 3 and able to stand up in the water so we have some waiting time! We've been trying to make it to the pool once a week to go for a family swim. We've had a setback the last couple weeks with the flu making it's rounds in our house though...

Randy is off work this week, his foot is swollen the size of a balloon. The Dr thinks it is tendonitis and has put him off for a week. So he's enjoying sitting at home playing on the computer and hanging out with Ethan. Ethan is going to stay home from daycare with him for the rest of the week as he is now able to get around a bit better. It will help to save some money...missing a week of wages is not a fun thing! Especially because he will have another week off at Christmas!

Oh that's another thing...I get 10 days off at Christmas!!! Can you freaking believe that?!?! That never happens to me! On top of that Home Depot just announced that all salaried managers and entitled to 3 weeks vacation from their hire date without having to wait the normal 5 years for it! Woo-hoo! I get like 4 weeks off every year!!! I love my job!

We have my Christmas Party this weekend, it should be fun. We also have to make our family Gingerbread house this week. I head to Regina for 3 days next week for work so there won't be much time for these things next week. It is just a quick trip to Regina for a meeting and a holiday dinner with the District Manager, Store managers and HR managers for our District. I'm looking forward to the trip as a little escape from the doldrums of real world! I have another trip in the first of Feb to Medicine Hat to look forward to as well! It looks like pretty much every two months I will be off to somewhere for a meeting. I'm going to start racking up my aeroplan miles so we can take a trip somewhere I tell you!

Anyhow, I don't know much else right now...I will look at pictures when I get home and do some posts around them and then of course there will be a post coming up on teh annual GIngerbread House construction...

Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season!