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It's all set up - Ben starts daycare on Monday. This makes me fidgety because he's being very bad and needy today and I wish he could go NOW. Bren's office assigned new lunch hours today and he won't be home until 1 - which is around Ben's naptime. Sigh.

Bren's mom told him she wants to chip in for his daycare. My initial reaction was, "rawr, rawr, I can pay for my own children even if I kill myself doing it. rawr," but now I'm being more sensible - we could use the help and I can still work some more overtime and pay down my debt and save for the car. It bothers me that I sometimes react in such a negative way to Bren's mom and sister. For the most part, they have been very kind and accepting of Katie and me. It's just the little things - comments about my weight and our worthiness to have a honeymoon, the seeming uncaring of my feelings, and "ownership" of Ben - that add up to something much bigger in my mind.

We got the professional pics and I'll get off my butt soon and post about the wedding.

Writer's Block: Traditional Pursuits

[Error: unknown template qotd]Decorating the tree. Growing up, we had an artifical tree that my aunt gave my mom when I was little, and we used it until I went to college. We used the same ornaments that my mom had had since 1979, too. The only new things on our tree were candy canes and the occasional replacing of electric lights. I don't understand people who buy all new ornaments every year. Yeah, they're pretty, but there's no history, no love to them.

We don't have room for a tree this year, unless we move a lot more stuff into storage than we're planning. But then we have the kitties and the baby to consider. I think Ben would attempt to climb and possibly eat the tree.

Oh - and candy canes. Just peppermint candy canes. I love them.

When i was in high school, I belonged to the Octagon club - an offshoot of the Optimist club. I wasn't popular enough to get into the Kiwanettes. But we actually DID things. Every Christmas, we volunteered at the Foster Children's Christmas party. That was awesome.

This year, I want to get into baking - most of my friends are going to be getting baked goods. :)

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Why does being a grownup have to be so hard?