on the 6th day of christmas...

as we prepare to leave for nashville for new year's weekend, i figured i should post about christmas and my wonderful week off of work. i took lindsay to work last friday so we could leave directly from there to head to knoxville. they let us off work on friday at 3:30p, but i didn't tell lindsay that. i went ahead and picked up jake from his last day at the daycare (he starts at the montessori preschool on jan. 3) because it would have been way out of the way to go to the mall and then back to nicholasville before picking lindsay up from work in lexington. he was in a great mood ... and then we went inside the mall. i guess there was just too much for him to see because while daddy was trying to shop for some surprise jewelry for momma, jake was being a holy terror. praise the Lord we walked in to the mall entrance right by the store and we were out within 10-15 minutes. we picked up lindsay and were in knoxville at a decent time.

we had a good restful time and jake had a big time opening presents. one of my main presents was a nationals jacket that i'll have to show you sometime. the day after christmas, i lined up with my mother-in-law in front of best buy and i got myself a $500 pc laptop. it's a blast and wireless internet in the house is fun too. it looks like it will function as a replacement for my pc desktop that i bought in the summer of 1998 (wow 7.5 years. i upgraded the processor, added ram and a large hard drive, but that's it. what a champ.). the old computer still runs well, but i've wanted a laptop for a while. i found out around finals week that my old laptop just couldn't really cut it anymore. well, if you don't mind running one word document at a time, i guess it runs fine. speaking of new computers, my department was getting rid of some old p2-400's and i got one for jake. we got him this play keyboard and computer game and i figured it'd be easier to have his own machine. by my count i guess that makes 5 computers in the house. heh heh.

anyways, we drove back on monday after i finished setting up my mother-in-law's new computer and best buy stuff and my dad drove up at the same time. he got to stay home with me and jake on tuesday, but had to go on back wednesday afternoon. me and jake took lindsay to work again this morning and will again be picking her up to get on the road this evening. happy new year's everyone!