{"id":4631,"date":"2010-12-21T10:03:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T15:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=4631"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:12:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:12:41","slug":"how-to-survive-holiday-break-with-4-kids-3-dogs-and-a-bunch-of-workmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/21\/how-to-survive-holiday-break-with-4-kids-3-dogs-and-a-bunch-of-workmen\/","title":{"rendered":"How to survive Holiday break with 4 kids, 3 dogs and a bunch of workmen"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s what I was thinking about yesterday as we started out on our holiday vacay (which this year consists of staying put).<\/p>\n

I had so much shopping to do- christmas, grocery, and yet all I wanted to do was hang out at home and bake cookies with the my kids.<\/p>\n

The workers couldn’t start yesterday and I was thrilled- yet I still spent the entire day running here and there.<\/p>\n

Not exactly what I had in mind when I was thinking about how I wanted to spend the break.<\/p>\n

I am happy that I knocked out the shopping because I think I may actually be done, and that feels good!!<\/p>\n

The bad news is the workers are suppose to arrive some time around lunch today and while I am happy that they didn’t show up at the crack of dawn, I know they will tomorrow!<\/p>\n

Today I am looking on the bright side though. We no longer have to keep it a secret that Andy is leaving Victoria’s Secret and moving on. Yay!! This has been a long time coming as the past year and a half have been so bad. And while there is so much more I would love to say on the subject- lets just leave it at that. Things have a way of working out, but it’s just crazy how one bad egg can make even the best people fly the coup. Good luck VS- or more importantly those that are still there and have to deal….<\/p>\n

In other good news- the girlies ears are on the mend and we are seeing far less grumpies<\/p>\n

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Because as you can see- the grumpies are not pretty (although still pretty dang cute!)<\/p>\n

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It is so hard when they are miserable and you just can’t help<\/p>\n

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Of course this chica can be very vocal which sends us all running for cover \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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The girl loves her some shoes. These fuzzy crocs are her current fave<\/p>\n

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I love love love washed-out (no pun intended) bathtub shots.<\/p>\n

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My plan is to have a camera on hand as much as possible this holiday season- these moments are too good to miss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s what I was thinking about yesterday as we started out on our holiday vacay (which this year consists of staying put). I had so much shopping to do- christmas, grocery, and yet all I wanted to do was hang out at home and bake cookies with the my kids. The workers couldn’t start yesterday and I was thrilled- yet I still spent the entire day running here and there. Not exactly what I had in mind when I was thinking about how I wanted to spend the break. I am happy that I knocked out the shopping because I think I may actually be done, and that feels good!! The bad news is the workers are suppose to arrive some time around lunch today and while I am happy that they didn’t show up at the crack of dawn, I know they will tomorrow! Today I am looking on the bright side though. We no longer have to keep it a secret that Andy is leaving Victoria’s Secret and moving on. Yay!! This has been a long time coming as the past year and a half have been so bad. And while there is so much more I would love to say on the subject- lets just leave it at that. Things have a way of working out, but it’s just crazy how one bad egg can make even the best people fly the coup. Good luck VS- or more importantly those that are still there and have to deal…. In other good news- the girlies ears are on the mend and we are seeing far less grumpies Because as you can see- the grumpies are not pretty (although still pretty dang cute!) It is so hard when they are miserable and you just can’t help Of course this chica can be very vocal which sends us all running for cover \ud83d\ude42 The girl loves her some shoes. These fuzzy crocs are her current fave I love love love washed-out (no pun intended) bathtub shots. My plan is to have a camera on hand as much as possible this holiday season- these moments are too good to miss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-4631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-life","tag-christmas-vacation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21093,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions\/21093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}