It's almost here!!

I can't believe we are 9 days away from my favorite holiday of the entire year, CHRISTMAS!! It is SO magical and I am SO SO blessed to have 2 amazing kids and a husband to share it with! Although, I believe it'll take another year for Bray to really know what is going on, he will have some knowledge of what is going on. They are going to be SO spoiled this year. Last Friday after Chad got home from work, we went to Toys r' us to shop from their wishlists, I could hardly contain my excitement, I think I had the most fun out of all of us! Although we didn't get all what we intended to because they were out of stock on a bunch of stuff, we ended up finding replacements that will be just as fun! Afterwards, we had dinner at one of our favorite places, Tokyo Joes and then we had just a few places to stop before heading home! We spent Saturday running our usual errands and knew it was going to be bitter cold Sunday so we tried to get in as many errands as we could, a little hard with 2 kids! Sunday we woke up, I made muffins and Chad was getting ready for the day when Chad came downstairs to artwork all over all walls. Bray decided to expand his coloring skills to the wall by our stairs, ahhhhhh!?!?!?!? It was bound to happen one way or the other, just not the way to start the day. While its still not cleaned off, I just have to shake my head everytime I go by it, the life of a toddler, its always something. I was dreading Monday as I had to be at my thyroid appt. at 10:30 that morning and knowing I had to take the kids with me as my Mom usually helps out, but she has been working a lot with the holidays lately. It is such a pain to drag them out in the bitter cold, unbundle and rebundle constently. My thyroid appt. did not go as well as I wanted it too. I had been doing so well that I hadn't been there since mid August. Well, I just wanted to die, because every appt. they weigh you and take your blood pressure and everything else...when the lady was weighing me, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I knew that I probably gained a little weight as I haven't been eating all that well and I hadn't been breastfeeding for a month and wasn't working out as much either, but the amt. of weight I had gained in a few short 4 months about blew me away, what the hell?!?!?? I know I have a tougher battle than most as that's what happens when you have hypothyroidism and PCOS, but you can never seem to win with it, its a lifetime saga that I hope one day can be cured. As with every appt., I always get my blood drawn to see whether they need to increase/decrease or keep me at the same level of dosage of my pill that I take. The lab I have to get my blood drawn at is next door to my dr., but the wait was out the door, AN HOUR, no way with 2 kids is that happening!?! I've never seen anything like it. I told my doctor about it and she was kind enough to give me different locations to go to. After my appt., I had to make a stop at Toys r' us for 1 of Bray's last gifts we couldn't find at the other store and to Costco for more Bryn diapers. It was a long, depressing, cold day, but we made it through and it was good to be back our warm home. I decided to get my bloodwork done today instead here in Parker, and it worked out a whole lot better. I hope to get my results by the end of the week, I'm just guessing I'm all out of whack again hormonally, but we'll see. Well, that's about all the news for now. I'm just gearing up to try and clean my house tomorrow hopefully and wrapping gifts, planning the Christmas dinner we are hosting next week for our families and very excited to have my family's Christmas get together on Saturday afternoon/evening!