The Feast De Le Resistance

Good morning everyone. Hope you all had a great holiday weekend. Wednesday, our new furnace was installed!! YEAHHHH! Mia and I spent most of the day hanging out at the house while the two fellas worked on installing it and updating our pipes and heat line. The new furnace is very quiet and smaller, which is great. When the guy fired it up, it had that new smell, and Mia yells out "IT SMELLS AWFUL, THIS GUY IS CONTRIBUTING TO AIR POLLUTION!" I just about died laughing. Thanksgiving morning, I worked 6am-2pm. We got pretty busy after 9am, but when 2pm came, I was so stoked to go home and not come back till Monday afternoon. We had a great Thanksgiving by my parents. Mia played very nicely with everyone without the whole sassy attitude that she gets from time to time.

 Friday morning, we were on the road and off to Illinois for the weekend to visit Jill's family. Mia was mostly good in the car, and we had another great 2nd Thanksgiving with them. This will most likely be the last one we have in Illinois since they'll be moving up here come Spring 2015. It was a little different sitting at the table. One person was missing. A person I grew accustom to seeing every Thanksgiving. Jill's beloved grandma who passed away this year. No one mentioned it, but it was strange for me. Saturday, Jill's friend Whitney came over. We chatted during the Chelsea vs Sunderland game (ughhhhhhh) Mia helped decorate Jill's family's tree, and we enjoyed the strange, but nice weather outside. It was in the upper 40's. Later, Mia helped bake some Christmas cut-out cookies.

Sunday, we had a birthday party to get to, so we packed up in the morning and left. We went to Jill's co worker's daughter's 1st birthday party. It was Frozen themed, and everything was quite adorable. Mia made a couple of ornaments and played pin-the-nose-on-the-Olaf. Arabella (the baby) looked adorable, and made out like a bandit. Her Dad will have lots to put together :P  Sunday night, we did the traditional activity of setting up the Christmas tree and did some decorating. The living room looks very nice, and Mia's Christmas tree looks great. Hard to believe the holidays are here already. Lots to do, but every time I get stressed, I look at that gleefully happy smile on Mia who can't wait for Christmas. Thanks for reading!

Living in an Igloo

Good evening everyone. It's been quite the interesting week, but we sincerely hope things improve. So last Wednesday, Mia myself and my Dad went shopping (for my Dad to pick out gifts) for my Mom for  Christmas. Mia had fun helping Grandpa Grumpy decide on what to get. Thursday, we unfortunately found out that our furnace was acting up. Wonderful. It would kick on, and off making us more and more frustrated. Finally Friday morning, I woke up and it was 43 in the house. Jill and I could literally see our breath as we're sitting on the couch eating breakfast and watching Orange is the New Black. A few calls later, and we had a guy coming out. After I dropped off Mia at school (she was so stoked to go because I told her the school will be significantly warmer than our house) I waited...and waited...and eventually the worker came at 11am! Which gave him approximately 20 minutes to tell me what is wrong with this possessed furnace. He immediately told me that it was fried, and that Carrier (the company that made it) was recently in court and had to settle on a lawsuit, so we will be getting a new furnace...Eventually. In the mean time, Jill and Mia stayed at my parents house (thanks again guys) while after work, I spent the night in our igloo. It was 57 when I got home from work. We have a few space heaters on keeping the place nice and warm. Not stoked for the electric bill.

Saturday morning, I went over to their house and watched the Chelsea vs West Brom game. Great game. 2-0 win for the Blues. Costa's goal was fantastic as well as Hazard's that leaked through the keeper's hands. My brother and I planned on taking the kids to the trampoline park, but because Tot Time was at 9am, Mia wasn't awake to go. With her spending the night at my parents, I wasn't able to wake her up to go. No big deal. So my brother took his little boy, and left behind his 6 month old. So I watched the game with Camden (the 6 month old) The kid has gotten so big. Later, we took my parents out for a birthday lunch. Later, Jill and my sister-in-law went to this 50 Shades of Gray parody called Spank. It was a late night show. Mia and I went with my parents to my brother's hockey game. We had a lot of fun, but Mia really wanted to ice skate. The scariest part of the night was when my brother was spun around from an opposing player and slammed into the boards. It was very sketchy, especially since he didn't get up right away. He got the wind knocked out of him, but was fine. The ended up losing 3-1

After the game, Mia and I spent the night hanging out, watching Doc McStuffins and eating mac n cheese. We crashed on the couch till morning. Today, I worked. Nothing special. I just really hope our furnace comes in before we head to Illinois.

That's all for now. Enjoy your Thanksgiving everyone :)