Christmas is Almost Four Months Away.....Really?

As you all know I have to plan everything. I am not a last minute person. In fact these type people drive me INSANE!!!!! Jonell has always waited to the last possible night to do her taxes before the dead line hits every year. God love her it drives me nuts. I don't know why. They aren't my taxes, what do I care? I don't know I  just do. I started doing them for her just to put my mind at rest. Weird I know. But she has her refund now a days before she would have even filed them before. That makes me happy! Again don't know why, not my taxes, not my refund but it just does.

Anyway, back to the point. I always create a Christmas budget several months ahead of time and start tucking cash away. This way when the time comes, Christmas is paid for. Yesterday it hits me Christmas is almost 4 months away and this year we have a youngin. So I decided ok budget time. But y'all what do you get a 10 month old that isn't a complete waste of money???? Me and Santa need to figure this one out. Any suggestions?



Until Next Time

Long Drive with a Youngin

Back during the first of summer Madilyn and I tagged along for a work trop Justin went on to St. Simon's Island in Georgia.

Madilyn was only 3.5 or 4 months at the time and had never been on a log car ride. Well as you can imagine I was a little nervous since we picked a doosie to start her out on. On a good day St. Simon's Island is about a six and a half hour haul. Add an infant who needs to eat every three hours  into the mix and it turns into more of a 8 hour drive.

We woke up around 6:30 on a Sunday morning, packed a few last minute things, fixed Madilyn's bottle, fed her, changed her and were on out way around 7:30. Madilyn slept all the way to Douglasville GA where we decided to stop and eat. Of coarse when we finished it was time for baby girl to eat. We were back on the road for what we thought would be a three hour haul until Madilyn was ready to eat again.

We thought wrong. As we neared Atlanta Madilyn started to turn 10 shades of red due to the surprise she was cooking up for me in her diaper. I knew we needed to start looking for an exit and a good place to pull over to change her. Well when her surprise began oozing out of the legs of her onesie and overflowing in her car seat I knew we needed to find an exit and ANYWHERE to pull over. As you would have it that meant pulling over in the worst possible neighborhood of Atlanta. We pulled into a gas station that had bars on the doors and windows. I was afraid to actually step foot in that place so we changed Madilyn in the car. We used an entire box of wipes!!!! I mean girl had poo, on her, on me, on her daddy, all in her car seat, poo was everywhere!!!

As we vigorously wiped down every service in our back seat we noticed an old black man pulling some hand trucks loaded down with Miller and Coors light. He pulled his beer filled hand tucks out of the parking lot, across the street and out of sight. Odd....... but we just kept on wiping and cleaning. Soon we noticed the old man coming back with his empty hand trucks. Huh....... we began to get the situation under control. As we began to get Madilyn's clothes back on and the dirty wipes thrown away we noticed the man coming back out of the store. This time his hand trucks were loaded down with Colt 45! Once again he pulled his loot out of the parking lot, across the street and out of sight. Y'all I don't know where he was going but let me tell ya he was going to have some fun when he got there....ha!

7 hours later and another poo accident later we found ourselves on St. Simons Island. We didn't get to visit the beach much since Justin was at work every day but we did get to go for about a hour one day....
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It was extremely hot that day so Madilyn wasn't really digging the beach so we went back to the condo. But I loved staying in with her everyday for a week. It reminded me of my maternity leave days.....ahhhh. Those were the days :)