The week in.

Rants:

• My head hasn't hit the bed at night this week before 1AM. My business has one hot mess of a website that needs to be up and running, and when you've got a little nugget to play with all day long you don't settle in to get your other work accomplished until after his bedtime. After a 1:30AM bedtime for Mama, night feedings every 2 hours after that and a wake up call at 7:30AM, I'm somehow feeling miraculously fabulous right now. But that may or may not be the caffeine talking. Is this still a rant? I don't even know what's happening here. 
• With just a month and a half until the LA marathon, my marathon training came to a screeching halt last week when my foot was aching so bad I could hardly walk. I'm rehabbing it out right now, but nothing is more frustrating than being injured at this stage in the training game. Also...
• TWO STRAIGHT HOURS on the elliptical to make up for missing my long run this past weekend. Two. Hours. 

Raves:

• We have a skilled army crawler and a burgeoning stander! In a short two week span, Knox has become wildly mobile. Now, if I could just get him to stop touching all of the things in the house...
• A lovely new couch is set to arrive at our house tomorrow and my living room can't wait. And Yoshi can't wait to lick it thoroughly :|
• El Nino is here and it brought us some legitimate stormy weather. Thunder and lightning and rain you can hear drumming on the roof and windows - be still, my Midwestern heart. We'll inside cuddling it out over here.

Randoms:

• Knox and I are back to class after our winter break. Bring on the shared Mama woes, the baby toy stealing and the ball pit germs. As seen above, Knox is clearly ready for it. 

The week in...

Oh, yes, my favorite end-of-the-week staple is coming back...

Rants

• Amazon Prime has me as spoiled as can be. Waiting a WEEK for my package to be delivered?! Good Lord, is it coming from Mars?!
• You guys, my toes are a hot mess. After Knox was born and I discovered just how many thousands of times per second I have my hands all over that little nugget, I promptly gave up on the idea of painting my fingernails ever again in the next 5 years or so. But bare toenails freak me out. And I vowed that these toes of mine would never see the outside of our home paint-free. But right now, I'm hanging on to the last chipping-away specks of big toe paint and I haven't the slightest clue when I'll find time to fix them. HELP! 

Raves

• We're prepping for our very first California Christmas and I'm pretty pumped. We've been here 4 years now, but we've always traveled back to Missouri for the holidays but because we made the trip in the fall, this year we'll be staying put. Decorating our house, planning the menu for Christmas dinner and enjoying a 60 degree forecast for Christmas day? I'll take it! 
• Cookie butter lattes from the Coffee Bean. I needn't say more. 

Randoms

I've switched over to the dark side. After being a Mac girl for 8 years, I needed a serious upgrade for my photo editing computer and my bank account just wasn't loving the idea of an iMac the same way my heart was. So, I let that Apple-hating nerd husband of mine build me the perfect editing beast of a PC for a price my bank account could handle. We're still in the process of moving everything over to the new computer but so far, let me just say...the monitor is so big it can be seen from outer space.

Did you know that banana exits a six-month-old's behind in the form of a whole bunch of black thread-looking fibers? Yeah, that was a disturbing surprise. Thank goodness for Google, or that also would have made for a very awkward panicked call to the doctor's office.

 And on that poopy note, I believe we'll end this week. Have a great weekend, y'all!