DH is sick, and for once, I’m not ready to strangle him over a man cold. Maybe it’s a Christmas miracle, lol. Not sure what he had, but he’s got a fever ranging between 100-102, and has chills and then cold and I can tell he feels kind of miserable. Regardless, he still went out and shoveled the driveway Sunday evening (that was the onset, so not sure he felt as bad then as he feels now). I had a one day work trip yesterday with a 6 am flight, so he managed to get the kids to daycare (because of course no school due to snow, so C went to daycare with M), went back home and crashed, then picked up both kids and did all the evening stuff plus bedtime. I had a delayed flight home, so walked in the house around 115am this morning. DH helped get kids and me out the door and then crashed again.

Here’s hoping he feels better soon, and that no one else catches it. He said a couple of others from his team at work emailed in sick today/yesterday - they had their team holiday outing on Friday, so I’m guessing someone there was sick.

Just ordered my FIL’s Christmas gift, so that one is done.

Christmas cards are in and partially addressed. Still need stamps, so hopefully DH can go pick those up on Monday.

Thanks to a couple of work trips over the last few flights, I read more books than I have in a while.

700 Sundays by Billy Crystal - heartwarming ready about the Billy Crystal and his father and family during his childhood (700 Sundays refers to the number of Sundays that Billy had on earth with his father before his father passed away when he was a teen)

Extreme Measures (Mitch Rapp #11) by Vince Flynn and The Rembrandt Affair (Gabriel Allon #10) by Daniel Silva - both are series I like to read and while somewhat predictable, I still like them.

The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen - better than I expected

Holly Banks Full of Angst - this was a Kindle First Read or whatever it was called and it was terrible. I barely finished it.

And poverty.poor data:


Kansas
> Annual cost of living (family of 2): $47,280 (15th lowest)
> Annual housing costs (family of 2): $7,724 (13th lowest)
> Annual food costs (family of 2): $5,750 (21st lowest)
> Median family income: $74,042 (25th lowest)
> Families earning less than $10,000: 2.8% (18th lowest)

Here is my state’s:


Kansas
> Household income range for middle class: $22,891 - $112,790
> Median family income: $74,042 (25th lowest)
> Middle class share of Kansas income: 46.4% (25th smallest)
> Richest 20% share of Kansas income: 50.0% (25th smallest)
> Cost of living in Kansas: 10.0% less expensive than than U.S. avg.

Yes! My (make) boss (!!), our female team coordinator, and two male coworkers came to the hospital to visit when M was born. She was born by c/s, and it was the day we were headed home, but I was still uncomfortable. And the stress of trying to make sure she didn’t need to nurse while they were there because that’s not something I wanted to do in front of them with a newborn who is still figuring out how to nurse. I would never in a million years tell my boss because he truly meant well, but yeah, I’ll never go visit a coworker in the hospital if they just had a baby.

I have goals, but the generally involve the next milestone and how much were contributing. Most of my investment account goal milestones are totally dependent on how the stock market is doing, so I can’t control it, but I still find it fun to track.

What a great tradition, donethat!

Love this idea! I might do something similar, but significantly less than 40. 😉

I did a bunch of Thanksgiving weekend holiday shopping. So I’ve been bring home boxes from work nearly every day last week and probably a chunk of this week as that’s where I have stuff delivered. More or less done with DH and both kids - DH will probably find something else he wants to get the kids, but that’s on him. He also started wrapping everything already, so yay!

Mom told me yesterday she wants the gift of time from us to help with a few things around her house, so that’s easy. I’ll pick up a few things for her stocking, but it’ll mostly all be consumable items as she doesn’t need more stuff.

We’re done with all of our nieces and nephews but DH’s oldest niece and her husband. DH still needs to shop for his parents and brother, and I need to shop for sister-in-law.

I also need to figure out a gift for my cousin’s husband. They are the godparents to our kids, and we’re godparents to their son. Gifts are her love language, so we still exchange gifts (I already have her figured out, and our godson). At this point I think he’s getting a bottle of liquor, I just need to figure out what kind.

I also need to get a gift for my sister’s boyfriend’s son as she informed me that he’ll be at our house for Christmas lunch.

The house is decorated.

We’re hosting Christmas lunch for my family. I have no intention of spending my Christmas morning cooking and not enjoying my family, so I’m going to do a couple kinds of soup in crockpots, veggie tray; and some other finger food/apps.

Christmas cards are ordered and should be here on Tuesday. I still need to get more stamps. DH and I will work on addressing them after the kids are in bed this week.

I’d like to do some holiday baking with the kiddos, so that’s on the list, but that may not happen until the day or two before Christmas.

Yeast infection usually looks like a diaper rash but with red bumps, right? At least that’s what I remember from when her brother had a yeast diaper rash.

She’s 90% potty trained and only wears a pull-up at night. It’s usually dry in the morning (like 4 days out of 5), so she’s not sitting around in wet diapers or anything. I’ll see how she is today and then take her in if something is still bothering.

My team just did our annual holiday outing today - we did ax throwing; which was a blast. We’ve previously done things like lunch out, lunch catered in, Whirly ball, Main Event, etc. I know some other teams who have done or are doing escape rooms, go carts, scavenger hunt around the city, etc.

The week before Christmas is treat week, so most of us bring in treats (usually homemade) to share with our teams. We are going themes, so one day is breakfast, one sweet and savory, one is happy hour, etc.

The company holiday party is a Saturday in January. I haven’t heard where this year’s is yet, but they rented out a local Main Event the last 2 years. It will include dinner and an open bar, plus some sort of entertainment. If it’s Main Event, we can bowl, free use of arcade games, laser tag, ropes course, etc. One year it was the College Basketball Experience. Other years it’s been a catered dinner with a band after.

Did you apply, Rukh O'Rorke?

DH’s uncle introduced us to the game 10+ years ago when we visited them and it’s been on of our favorites since. We love introducing it to new people.