What I Learned This Week

It is 10:25pm on Monday night. I am sitting up in my bed instead of my big, blue, bloggy chair because there are three people sleeping in my living room.

All told, there are eight extra people sleeping in our home, and surprisingly, we found enough pillows for every person to have one. Except for baby Annabelle, who by the way is a living doll. She is McDaddy’s niece and we just met her for the first time this week. She is a few days shy of her fifth-month birthday and therefore she does not need a pillow.

See, I told you she was a cutie!

You may recall, that Stevie, Alex and I spent two weeks in New Hampshire over the summer. We were hoping to be there for Annabelle’s birth. We left NH on Thursday, and she made her debut into the world two days later on Saturday, July 4th. I have enjoyed holding her and smelling her this week. Oh sweet mercy, babies smell delightful!

Anyway, where was I before I got off on the baby smell tangent? Oh, things I learned, yes, that’s right.

Here’s a list of things I learned this week in simple list format because its late and I’m tired.

1. I learned that it is best to have a plan of attack on black Friday. A plan that involves two people with at least one of them willing to stand in line-after-line while the other frantically searches the store for those things that have been circled with a blue Sharpie Marker in the sales ad. It is also good to take a fair amount of patience with you, along with a cell phone with a freshly charged battery.

2. It is also a good idea to choose the sales ad that represents the bulk of your black Friday wish list and start! there! first! Otherwise, you might be left with nothing at the end of the day.

3. Wal-Mart at 8am on black Friday was a bust.

4. If you need to prepare a quick dinner for 30 people, hotdogs with the fixins is the perfect choice.

5. It is tough to write a Things I Learned This Week post if you have not been diligent with keeping TILTW notes in your beloved iPhone.

6. JC Penney has a huge assortment of lip gloss for young girls. And by huge assortment I mean dozens of lip glosses in all kinds of flavors and scents. I’ve never seen so many lipglosses in all my days. Keebler even has a set. It includes Vienna fingers, EL Fudge, Pecan Sandies, fudge stripes, and soft batch. It made me want to pop open a box and see what all the hype was about. I suspect I’d be eating tubes of lipgloss in the wee hours of the morning if I would have bought a pack of those. Wonder what the calorie content in lip gloss is, anyway?

7. When your child has a birthday on December 12th, it can sneak up on you if you do not plan a month ahead. Ahem!

8. I don’t normally keep a close eye on followers, but I checked today and was pleasantly surprised to see that 88 of y’all are following me. I had only three “followers” for about three months after I started this blogging gig. Its hard to believe that in the big, wide, world there are at least 88 of you who keep coming back for a daily dose of crazy.

Who knew?

9. There are still approximately 8-10 people each day searching for “wet t-shirt contest” over at Google who end up at my place.

10. For some reason, I like a nice, round list.

And that, as they say, is that!

Head over to Musings Of A Housewife (who might I add is all decked out in Christmas cheer) to see more What I Learned This Week posts.

Tagged as: Alex, inlaws, McDaddy