Day 10 TSO

On this night, on this night, on this very Christmas Night...I presented Zach with tickets to the Trans Siberian Orchestra concert. The concert was the 12th, but I went ahead and gave him notice. We ended up double dating with some of our good friends. Here are some pics of the night I gave him the tickets and the night of the show. It happened to be one of the first big snows of the season which I loved.

Days 8&9

So I am really bad at this whole thing. I thought I had already posted days 4-7 but apparently I didn't. But that is done now and on to 8&9.

Day 8:

He always talks about wanting a mustache, but never grows one. He's very self conscious of facial hair, when really, I love it. Maybe not a mustache like this, but I mean he kinda rocks it. Don't ya think?

Day 9:
He needs to get rid of some socks for sure, but I thought these would be nice enough to add to his collection.

Days 4-7...and this was supposed to make me blog daily.

So the advent thing is for Zach, but I thought it would also help me blog. It hasn't. I mean it sort of has. But who cares. Here are the last few days of gifts.

Day 4--

He thought he was getting socks, but NO, I bought him undershirts. Something he didn't realize he needed. He was sporting one today though!

Day 5:

I made Zach read the story of the Christmas pickle, find the Christmas pickle, and then he received his little dancing man. He found that at Party City a while back and mentioned it being the coolest little thing. So I went back and got it for him.

Day 6:

 Zach has tons of penguin stuff, and he always says not to buy him any more of it. Yet, we went to Target and he swooned over this card. It plays a video of penguins singing and building a snowman. It is rather cute...so of course I bought it for him.


Day 7

 I got Zach an IronMan Coloring Book. He loves IronMan, and he works every Sunday evening for like 10 hours. So I thought he might want something to take up some of that time.

If you guess it, you will get it.

I woke up this morning with a horribly sore neck. I slept wrong I suppose. Anyhow, it was a great excuse to go get a massage. Feeling ten times better afterwords I thought I should stop into Gigi's cupcakes to get their winter menu. Then it dawned on me, "I should just get some cupcakes for Zach's gift!" So I got the new Buttered Rum and the Tiramisu. I decided to place them in the oven for hiding. I folded up the new menu for the box. When he came over to check his box, I told him he had to guess which ones I got. He got it on the third try. I mean it's not like I would have withheld the cupcakes if he didn't guess. So here are the photos from that:

Day 2

Today Zach came over before I went to get my haircut. He checked his advent and found:

 

"On a day like today, when we have to wake up too early, pay for a car to be fixed, and face the decision of throwing our computer out the window and beating it repeatedly with a baseball bat, wouldn't it be nice to escape to a winter wonderland? Look in a cold place to find your gift for today. Something you have never had awaits you there." 

I hid the present in the freezer...it was this adorable snowglobe.

Zachery's Christmas

This year I have decided to an advent for Zach. Meaning, his Christmas gifts will come one at a time for 25 days. I will be posting pictures from each day. Today was the day I presented him with the advent box and his first gift.

 The note says:


Good Morning Baby
Today is the day you get a gift from your lady
As will be tomorrow and the next day...
All the way till Christmas
This box shall remain here
And you will open one door a day
Today, your gift is the gift of Christmas
Now that it is the first and NYC lit their tree
We can light ours while listening to the soothing sounds of Christmas Music
Yes, Zachery, you may now start your Christmas
I love you!
Merry Christmas

I know I know I know...I suck at this.

I have to say, blogging is usually the last thing on my mind. I try to come up with ideas here and there, but nothing I have to say really feels important. Other than work, babysitting, and photos there isn't too much going on. Although, Christmas time is getting closer so there may be some more blogging.

Today though, I want to blog about the 1940's. I had a busy day today, as Zach would call it, Virginia and the Busy Day. (He feels as though I should write my life as children books). I worked this morning, and then babysat. I was out of my house from 8:30 am until 6:30 pm. I didn't really have ALOT to do today, but when I am gone from my house ALL day, I feel particularly stressed. I just miss the comfort of my own home. Once I finally got home, I had many emails and such to attend to since I had no access to a computer all day. I decided that Nat King Cole would be a good background, and it was. It is amazing to me how calming that style of music is. It's so slow, but not depressing. Just romantic. It makes a glass of wine and small apartment seem like a NYC loft with a vintage bottle of wine overlooking Central park. I feel classy and can escape into an entire different state of mind. That is glamorous compared to my running clothes, messy hair, and scattered mess of a desk.

That era, the 40's, is where I would go back in time. The romance, the fashion (Couture ladies), the SHOES, the men, the music, the thrill of the cinema, the food. Despite the war going on, that would have been a great time to be alive, granted there is a war now and it might be even better to live in that time than now. I mean, it was so simple. Who cared about emails, cell phones, cars, work. It was a time of life. When I think of the movies, I always go back to this time. That was when people got dressed up and excited to go to the movies. It was an event, not a way to kill three hours. It seems like things were not taken for granted then. Maybe it's just me, but that is a time that we could all learn from. So, here are some images of things I love from that time.



(PS, if anyone wants to participate in a photo shoot based around this era, let me know) I've been wanting to put one together.