I have thoughts #4

Raise your hand if you can't believe that there's only 6 days left until Christmas. (Spoiler alert: I'm over here raising my hand.) I'm ready...it just doesn't feel like December is already half over! Before you know it, it'll be January and I'll be writing the wrong date on everything all over again.

Speaking of Christmas, one of the best parts...the 2017 Hater's Guide to the Williams Sonoma Catalog has finally been released and I. am. dying. As usual. In case you missed them, there are also guides from 2012-2016. I'm not going to link them all, but just Google "hater's guide to williams sonoma" and you'll find them. They're worth the quick Google search, trust me.

Any of you moms out there decided to get crib bumpers despite the warnings against them? Now that Imogen is getting close to 6 months old, she's moving around in her sleep more and more. I will put her down for bed at the very foot of her crib, and within 30 minutes, she's wiggled and inch-wormed her way all the way to the top of the crib. The problem is, she keeps getting her head stuck in the corner, or wiggling and smacking her head against the top of the crib. It wakes her up, and though she's gotten better at not ramming her head into the wooden slats over and over (and crying), she still takes a good 15-20 minutes to go back to sleep when she wakes up. I'm wondering if crib bumpers would help her fall back asleep faster? Then again, my hope is that she'll just figure out how to back up instead of just go forward, and then this will be a non-issue.

As I write this post, she is currently napping with her head jammed in the OTHER corner of the crib. Sigh.

I am officially done Christmas shopping! For some reason I felt like I was running out of time this year, just like I do every year, but it always seems to work out and somehow everything was delivered on time and I am only still waiting on a couple of items that should be delivered on Friday or Saturday. We're headed out of town on Friday but at least they'll be here when we get back. Isaiah has to go back to work the day after we get back from Seattle - on the night shift, no less (shoot me) - so we won't be having our own little family Christmas until the weekend of January 6th. It's fine. It means Christmas lasts longer, right? 

I wasn't planning on making Christmas cookies for all the neighbors this year because of everything going on (baby, going out of town, Isaiah working really long hours, etc) but I think I might just make one or two kinds of candy instead, just for our neighbors across the driveway from us and maybe some extra for Isaiah to take to work to share. Our neighbors are a nice older couple and we always give them Christmas cookies and I'm starting to feel twinges of guilt over skipping the tradition this year. I'm thinking toffee and...something. I'm not sure what yet. Maybe chocolate mint truffles.

Speaking of Christmas, I feel like we go through this exact scenario every year with Christmas cards. (Also, if you're not following John Crist on Instagram, you're missing out.)