Happy New Year

We welcomed in 2008 last night with the McCraw's where Carolyn most accurately put it "Thanks for attending the kids' NYE party". Eli stayed awake long past any normal bedtime even for him (read: we pulled in the driveway around 1:30? he was still awake). Daddy's hunting so as Eli likes to say "Jus Eni & Mommy"

I'd apparently in my late-night fuzzies informed TheBoy we would go to the green playground today. Bwaha. Yeah he remembered and so I was obligated. Only the windchill was INSANE and his teeth were chattering and I had to be the mean one - I made him leave the playground. You may have heard us? Why yes we were in fact the shrill voice you heard screaming No Mommy Eni Pway on De PWAYGROUN over and over.

And really I didn't have it in me to just ignore. So I bribed him with a chocolate milkshake, thus sealing my MotherOfTheYear status for 2008. And then we went by TRU so he could play with the train table. We came back to the house and did tons of puzzles. And Eli even took a nap! We dined on Olive Garden for dinner (had exactly enough left on a giftcard so score! & Eli loved his 'special pizza' that we ate in the living room while watching a movie). And now, well, now he's fighting sleep and I'm hoping he gives it up here shortly because I have to work tomorrow.