The Nelson Narrative

Last day of November.  Today was just an almost normal work day.  I say almost because I had to take an extra long lunch break to pick up Olivia and take her to the orthodontist. I'm hoping to finish my Christmas shopping by the end of the weekend but I probably won't.  This year we will be with Paul's side so a lot fewer people to buy for (and even one fewer with the passing of his dad), and I have a good start so *maybe* this will be the year I finally finish early (for me), but we'll see. We have some fun stuff planned for December.  It will all be here so soon!  Crazy how fast time goes. Going to watch New Amsterdam and then read for awhile and go to bed early.  I will leave you with a cute pic of Kona nestled in between some Christmas pillows.

Day 4 of the Christmas season.  I took the day off and drove up to Lynnwood to take my ring to Shane Co for cleaning/inspection etc.  Then I did some Christmas shopping at the mall.  Like I mentioned yesterday there are some stores there that aren't at the mall closer to home that I needed to go to.  I managed to get a few things and now I have a really good start to my holiday shopping.  Now I'm watching the Seahawks on Monday Night Football.  They are having a bad season but there's a chance they could win this one. Fingers crossed! Back to work tomorrow, and I have to take a long lunch to pick up Olivia from school and take her to the orthodontist.  Always so many appointments.

Today we went to church and then got gas and did our grocery shopping for the week on the way home.  Just Paul and I because Olivia rode there and back with a friend and Kayley had a friend spend the night last night and they ended up not going.  Once we were home we had lunch and then we walked Kona but it was a short walk because it was raining.  After that I just did a bunch of chores like cleaning the litter box and laundry.  I watched part of a movie and then had to go pick Kayley up from a friend's house.  Then we ate dinner, cleaned up and now I'm finishing my movie.  They all have to go back to work and school tomorrow but I took the day off.  I was originally planning on just doing things around the house but now I'm going to go to a mall 40 minutes away because they have some stores I need that the closer mall doesn't have and I might as well take advantage of the less crowded weekday.  Also, I need to take my ring in for cleaning/inspection and that place is

28 days until Christmas.  I don't think I've blogged since school started!  I've started several posts but never get around to finishing and posting them.  So between now and Christmas Eve I thought it would be fun to try and write everyday just a few sentences or paragraphs about what I/we did that day.  I've attempted similar in the past and never got very far but I want to try again anyway.  I may not actually post every day, I may just write something and then post something every three or four days or something like that.  We'll see. Ideally, I would have started yesterday, being the day after Thanksgiving and the official start of the Christmas season and all, but I didn't think about it until today. Yesterday we were still at Paul's mom's house.  We went there on Thanksgiving and then spent the night and helped her put up all her Christmas decorations and stuff on Friday (yesterday).  This was the first Thanksgiving since Paul's dad died, so i