Sometimes I wish I had more time for this thing, but if I did, it wouldn't be my crazy life. I finally finished the semester strong with 2 B's and 1 A, which I am really proud of. I felt like I was being stretched in a million different directions for the past few months: mom, partner, student, employee, daughter... Just call me Strech Armstrong. Ask me and I will tell you I'm a total type B personality, but I am pretty sure I'm a closet-type-A. The house is clean but never clean enough. I try to be super mommy with park play dates, clean clothes and pretty regular baths, but the truth is, sometimes I fail. Just last month I realized I hadn't bathed my kid in 4 nights. FOUR NIGHTS. I leave clothes in the washer until they are sour and then wash them again. I don't spend nearly enough time putting in an effort in the lover section of my life. Homework can always wait... until the hour before it's due, when I am scrambling around trying to finish it. And these things drive me CRAZY about myself. But at the end of the day, my kid is alive, my house isn't being condemned by the health department and I am enjoying a nice glass of wine on the couch next to the love of my life. Somehow, that makes it all ok.

My house is in total scrambles as I get ready for Christmas. I am really surprised I even found the laptop charger... It's hard to buy presents for my "new" family. We're on an EXTREME budget this year, but it wouldn't feel right not getting MIL and GMIL something. I ordered them canvas pictures of Liam and Trevor. As I was looking through my photo albums to create them, I realized I have very few pictures with my son. I stupidly opened the album of the day of his birth and relished in those first few moments of his sweet, wrinkly face. It is dangerous for moms to have access to these types of pictures... I had to extinguish that baby fever and fast. Somedays, I would give anything to go back and relive those first few months because frankly, I just can't remember them. Since that is impossible to do, from here on out I will vow to document more, photograph more, and be photographed more. Damn, I don't want these days to end...

Im out.
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