Advent 2012 Days 7-8

Rothacher Advent 2012 Adventures

Friday December 7th

Life as usual. Sorta. I spent then entire day trying to play catch up, cleaning, making fix-quick meals, and packing...again. My sweet in-laws showed up to have a sleepover with my babes while I raced off to collide with Matt in Little Rock's when he got out of prison. We met at Gauchos for a Super Summer leadership team Christmas party. Can you say "Meat Fest"!?!?! It was fun to hang with adults but I still miss my hubs though! When I only have 3 hours a day with him, I'm not good at sharing him for 2 hours of {well needed} conversation with friends over a yummy dinner and don't like spending 30 minutes of it in the separate cars, 30 minutes settling into a hotel room before the poor dude passes out just in time to get ~6 hours of sleep trying to catch up on all the 4 hour nights. I don't know how shift-worker wives do it. I'm ready for this season to be over.

Saturday December 8th

Today. Today I thought I'd sleep in. Since I was in fact in a hotel room All By Myself after Matt left for work ~4:15. No kids coughing. No kids needing to be fed. Cable! {we don't have TV}. WiFi with all-inclusive silence. No need for a shower because I prepared and brought a Hat! ;o)

How long did I sleep in you ask? 5am.

Ridiculous! The earliest I normally get up with the kids is 6:30-7am. I couldn't go back to sleep. After an hour I got up. Turned on the TV just because it was there- disappointed by HGTV. That's usually my go-to when I have cable. Then I broke out my laptop and thought I'd get all kinds of writing done. False. After a couple hours of fart'n around I made myself slightly presentable and with high hopes, decided to go shopping for jeans! I tried this last weekend and went home with meager self-esteem & slightly depressed.

Not that I'm counting or anything, but that's 30 pair of jeans {I didn't post the official-mom-high-wasted pair} that didn't fit. THIS is why women hate their bodies. Evil clothing manufactures don't make clothes for everyone. If they fit in the thighs they gaped huge above the butt. If they fit around the waist they made my butt look bigger than normal. If the butt decor was okay then they were a foot and 1/2 too long. If they were the right length they squashed my butt and thighs. Anybody relate?

I caved after over 2 hours and bought a pair that weren't awful. Did I mention I haven't bought jeans since I was pregnant with Izzie 3 years ago? Yeah...and my size shot up as well. Booooo I've been wearing the jeans around this afternoon...within every 5 minutes I have to pull them up at least 3 times. They are defiantly going back!

The kids and I have been playing Christmas movies; I introduced them to the Original Miracle on 34th Street today! We also did our Storybook Bible Advent reading but didn't feel very purposeful about our Advent the past few days. Oh well. We're enjoying one another and learning more everyday!