Life with a toddler make the holidays crazy!

I'm beginning to learn it is alot more difficult to get anything done with my son around now that he is older (19 months). It doesn't help matters that he is a very tall kid and with the help of chairs, he pretty much gets into everything. He has been opening doors for a while and now he can almost reach the light switches.

With the holidays, he's been extra curious with all the decorations, tree, presents, and everything else that has been around. He's already ruined a few ornaments, goes crazy with the tree at times, loves all the lights, and now he yanked his stocking off the mantle and got hit in the face with the stocking holder. I also just realized that he stabbed our kitchen table with a fork and there are fork prong marks imbedded in the table now. He is a strong little fellow and very curious. Even though he has had many time outs regarding the tree and ornaments, he keeps going there. Maybe I'm not doing a very good job though.

I haven't even attempted present wrapping around him cause I know he would be all over me. I actually just put the first presents under the tree last night and today he was trying to stomp on them. I don't know why but he has this thing right now that is trying to stand on everything (including other people) to be taller. Mark and I also made christmas cookies and did the bulk of the work when Lucas was sleeping. He was ok with the the actual baking process but anything else would have been too difficult. I still have a ton of presents to wrap too. It doesn't help matters that my little guy is sick right now also. We are all doing the best we can though.

Happy holidays to everyone!

Home, work, home.. it's all work!

This is kind of a vent post, so I just want to put a warning in advance!

It's been a long day. Get up after 7am to get the kid and take care of him for a few hours before leaving for work at noon. Then I have a crazy day at work and finally get home after 10pm and guess what I got to come home too? My crazy little guy running around, still awake. His dad was gone and the person we had watching Lucas didn't like hearing him cry so instead, he had been playing since he dad left. After a really tiring and stressful day at work, this is pretty much the last thing I wanted to deal with when I got home. My son was a sweetie like always but I needed to feed him a snack and then wind him down again. Of course he ended up conking out since he had been awake for more than 6 hours.

I know it is the same way for stay at home moms but it is kind of amazing how the work is never done. I am lucky that I do have some help with the housework but it really is never ending. Lucas is constantly making a mess somehow. We are working on teaching him how to put stuff away but it is pretty much a constant battle.

One of these days it's going to get easier right? We can all hope anyways!