Back At It

And we're back. It was a glorious Christmas vacation from school and work so I am definitely a little bummed to be back at it this morning.

But... learners gotta learn and workers gotta work and all that jazz. No really though. Husband hasn't been to work since the morning of the 22nd so I am sure it will be a crazy day for him and one he was not looking forward to. He seriously almost never takes time off of work so it was so so nice to have him with us for 12 full days! And also usually when he does have time off I use it as an excuse to travel. So for us to have had 5 full days at home together was a real treat!

We are unpacked and settled in from Christmas. We rung in 2017 with make your own pizzas, chocolate covered strawberries and the Puffin Rock Countdown at 7:30. Then husband and I watched Bridget Jones Baby and finished off the Welches Sparkling. Super duper fancy over this way!

New Years Day was still not a work day so we decided to go out! The kids were thrilled their sitter could come play with them and I was thrilled to go out! We had a wonderful dinner and then we went to see "Fences." Pretty darn ritzy, I can't even remember the last time we went out for dinner and a movie. One or the other usually.

Yesterday we "decorated down" the Christmas tree. Which was GENIUS! on Husband's part. The kids helped and didn't get sad about the end of the decorations.

This morning after school drop off, M and I headed to Target which was surprisingly not crowded with all the SAHM crowd rejoicing their young ones were back to school today. We bought a big storage tub for the Legos, which had been living in a Scentsy box. I wanted something with a lid! That wasn't cardboard. And would class up the joint just a bit.

I also got new storage cubes for the toys and two other storage containers. (One for coloring books/crayons/etc. and one for Little People!)

Plus new shower curtain liners and toilet bowl cleaner. Much fun and fancy. Except I kind of think the cleaning, purging and organizing the toys is kind of fun. Is that the weirdest?

So that's that. We are back at the "real life" portion of 2017 and so far so good I think.