I was in a pretty foul mood all day yesterday. Not really sure why — I was reasonably well-rested and even had a chance to do some cleaning in the morning. But Gus was acting bratty which was making me pissy. Plus I didn’t leave the house all day, never a good thing for me (unless I am sick).<\/p>\n
Probably it’s the holiday stress. Now that last busy week is over I can finally get to the holiday planning, and OMG xmas is coming up fast! I fretted lots yesterday over how to get the shopping finished now that I’m working so much. Around dinnertime I forced us to get cracking on the cookie baking lest we feel like Santa’s sweatshop elves in 2 weeks time.<\/p>\n
Maybe it’s the restorative power of watching 30 Rock<\/i> until midnight, but today was better. We had crepes for breakfast, yum (though I was still shaking off the pissy until afterwards). In the afternoon we went out to get haircuts for the boys, shed our newly-paper-jammed 7-yr-old energy-sucking laser printer<\/a>, and finish shopping for my niece. Then we went to the pastry shop<\/a> for restorative snacks. When we got home Gus + I worked on birthday thank you notes, and Jonathan baked another batch of cookies.<\/p>\n Now I feel better. Really the shopping is almost finished, and 40% of the cookies are baked. Next weekend we’ll pick up a tree at the sale at Gus’s school. It’s all under control.<\/p>\n Hmmm…maybe that’s just all of the sugar talking. Should I be freaking out? No time now, more 30 Rock to watch. Later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was in a pretty foul mood all day yesterday. Not really sure why — I was reasonably well-rested and even had a chance to do some cleaning in the morning. But Gus was acting bratty which was making me pissy. Plus I didn’t leave the house all day, never a good thing for me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}