Contest!!! Here is my submission....

Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme
TodaysMama (link to: http://bit.ly/tmwishlist) and GameStop (link to: http://bit.ly/gamestop10) are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.

1. What is your holiday wish for your family?  That we will all be together and not to lose sight of the true meaning of CHRISTmas!

2. What is your Christmas morning / Hanukkah Nightly tradition? Breakfast with the family after opening gifts.

3. If you could ask Santa for one, completely decadent wish for yourself, what would it be? An IPad.

4. How do you make the holidays special without spending any money? We listen to Christmas music constantly and watch Christmas movies/cartoons.

5. What games did you play with your family growing up? Scrabble, monopoly, then we had our first Nintendo and we loved Duck Hunt. That was a family favorite.

6. What holiday tradition have you carried on from your own childhood? Our family gathers Christmas Eve and we have a huge meal of appetizers, dips, punches and just visit and enjoy each other's company.

7. Where would you go for a Christmas/Hanukkah-away-from-home trip?  Disney World

8. Check out GameStop (link to: http://bit.ly/gamestop10) and tell us, what are the three top items on your GameStop Wish List this year?  Nintendo DSiXL for my son, Wii Fitness and Tony Hawk Shred for Wii.

Can I have a day off, puhlease???

Like many of you, I work full time.  Don't get me wrong...I LOVE my job and am so thankful to have it, but I am thinking that the work week (at least for me anyway) needs to be a Monday through Thursday affair.  I have so many things I want to do and make and give but there never seems to be enough time in the day.  By the time I leave the office, pick up my son from after-school care and get home, it's 6:00 p.m.  Usually hubby has dinner ready unless he's out of town, so that  puts us at 7:00 p.m. by the time the food is eaten and the kitchen is cleaned up.  Our son goes to bed around 8:30 so that now leaves me 1.5 hours to spend with my child, talk to my husband, do laundry, clean the house (not likely), work on my projects, etc. because I am no longer a night owl...I.MUST.SLEEP. at least 7-9 hours each night.  I just can't hang anymore.  I cannot stay up until 11 or 12 every night and then get up at 5:30 or 6 every morning for work. 

I just need a day off to get everything done that I can get done....yeah, right....I just can't justify asking for it.  "Um, excuse me...um, my craft projects are falling behind and my house isn't properly decorated for Christmas...may I take a day off??"  I don't think so.  =)

So, I'll just keep plugging away at getting done what I can accomplish when I can accomplish it. 

On a happier note, we did get one of our Christmas trees up and mostly decorated last night!!