Slump

I've been in a weird blogging slump lately.  Party because we're busy (as if we're ever not busy) and partly because I just haven't felt very inspired to write.  Our daily shenanigans just don't seem all that blog-worthy all of sudden.  I mean, do people really care what the first thing we baked in the new oven was or how Jack & I survived being stuck in the house for 2 snow days in a row?

Oh wait.  Mom does.

So here's what we've been up to the past week.

It snowed.
Princeton's policy is to close whenever the Lawrence school district cancels classes, so Jackson had his first snow day.  2 in fact.  Drew is otherwise occupied during snow storms (silly thing called work), so that meant I got 2 snow days as well.  Under normal circumstances I would have been thrilled.  When I was a kid snowdays = baking chocolate chip cookies.  A tradition I fully intend to continue with my little guy.  Except we didn't have an oven.  And since this is the absolute busiest time of the year at work for me, I have to admit I was a bit preoccupied with my iphone as I kept a close eye on e-mails and tried to keep things moving at the office.  We did manage to sneak in some fun though.  I'm pretty sure we played with every toy in the house at least once over the course of 2 days.  We even tried a new project and did some shaving cream painting.


He started out slow

That's more like it!

Jackson also got his wish of staying in PJ's for an entire day.  On snow day #2 he greeted me in the morning with, "No dressed Mommy.  Just jammies."  And so we did.

The Oven Arrived.
I don't have a picture of our oven in it's new home, but it arrived on Thursday.  I'm still getting used to the ceramic flat top, but for the most part I love it.  In just 4 days it has successfully cooked 2 trays of Toll House cookies (these little suckers pretty much sustain my husband), 4 mini-loaves of banana bread (2 to enjoy and 2 to freeze) and sour cream mashed potatoes and green bean casserole to go with the turkey I made yesterday.  Hooray for ovens!

We Cleaned and Did Laundry and Bought Groceries and Paid Bills and Watched Football (a lot) and Cleaned Some More and Started a New Series on Netflix. (Rescue Me with Denis Leary.  Hilarious.  Thanks for the Netflix Nik!)
You know...all the usual stuff that happens throughout the course of a week.

And now you're caught up.

However, in less than 2 weeks I'm heading to Florida for a 10-day business trip (ugh - 10 days without my little man).  Drew gets to join me for a few days this year and Mom will be holding down the fort at our house with Jackson & Ruby.  Between my workload as we prepare for the event and getting things in order at home for Drew & Mom (because, you know me, I'm the queen of anal-retentiveness so there will be meals frozen and detailed instructions for everysingleminute that I'm gone) there may be some lulls on the Elser 411 in the next few weeks.

Stay tuned...I've got lots of things swimming around in my head to share with you.  Like:

• Is Jackson ready for a toddler bed?
• We've been peeing in the potty!  (We meaning Jackson.  Drew & I are well versed in the use of the potty.)
• My new camera.  So much to tell you about my new camera!
• The playroom transformation.
• Being green.

Be patient with me.  I'll get to it all one of these days.  I just have to work my way through this busy month.  And out of this slump.