It seems like this year the holidays just came out of nowhere! Obviously we were a little distracted eating, sleeping, crapping our pants, and trying to enjoy bath time a little more…
I am slowly taking new projects here and there for work. A fun project I did, though, was for a friend who asked me to replicate a family tree for her for a Christmas gift and I am so happy with how it turned out.
Life with a newborn is so much better than I expected. I don’t get as much done day to day as I used to, but I am enjoying this stage of her life so very much. I might die when I can no longer tuck her in one arm…
The week before Christmas we had our annual Henderson Adult Christmas dinner. We had it at the Roof this year, in the round room. Zach and I checked “Seeing the lights at Temple Square” off our holiday to-do list…from above and in a warm room.
Thank you to Mark and Jeanene for a delicious meal with great company!
On the daily, Sloan is such a champ and goes everywhere with me. Lucky for me, she loves riding in the car and doesn’t mind her car seat at all. She loves looking out the window as we run our errands.
I feel very lucky that I can work from home.
Like I said, I am taking it in stages, but I really like my new co-worker. She doesn’t mind that I am in my jams 80 percent of the time.
I have learned a lot the past 6 weeks on my quest to become a decent mother. One of the most random is that just because you love clothes and buy your unborn child a whole slew of them, doesn’t mean that she will like them as much as you do. Sloan would rather be naked [aka in a diaper only] all day every day if I would let her. One of the few things she would tolerate, however, were her Christmas jammies.
Zach went up to the Hendo cabin for a weekend with his guy friends. I took the opportunity to get everything done before the holiday. I got all my neighbor gifts done. Talk about last minute. This year we did pasta and pesto. Which means I will have a frozen pesto supply until next Christmas…
Also, Sloan and I wrapped all the Christmas presents [naked of course – her, not me].
One of the best bits of advice I got before Sloan came was to get a Rock and Play [thank you Lindsey!] and I can’t even say how grateful I am for that suggestion. Sloan loves to watch me do everything. Make dinner, clean the house, whatever – all in her little Rock and Play (that she also sleeps in next to our bed every night). It has saved me!
Since Zach didn’t get home until Sunday, my mom and I decided to have a mini stay-cation. Just us three girls. We stayed a night at the Grand America. We had in-room dining for dinner and watched movies all night. Sloan was trippin’ out in the middle of the night when she realized her dad had morphed into Gram…
Sunday was the Henderson Family Christmas party at Classic Skating. Sloan wore her Christmas dress for 10 whole seconds before she was over it. I am glad I got a photo op before it was boycotted…
Also, going along with the “better-late-than-never” theme…we sent out our Christmas cards. Probably my favorite year thus far. Sloan’s face is killing it in this picture. Our child fits in pretty well with her weirdo parents, if you can’t tell…
Just counting down the days until we get to celebrate our first Christmas with our baby girl!