Black Friday

Ah the ever anticipated day for professional shoppers! Yes, I choose to be among those that are insane and get in their cars well before dawn to head toward the mall and stores with doorbuster deals, why? Because it truly is the beginning of the Christmas season! What better way to kick off Christmas than buying gifts at great prices. Now to be honest, often deals can be found for similar prices on average sale days, and so you truly have to research the need to head out and into the madness and more importantly stand in line to check out – those prices better be worth it!

Today not only marked the kickoff of Christmas in the Scrooge* household, but also was a new first for our family. I left Ace home with his dad. Yup, I ventured out for Black Friday all by my lonesome! For the first time in Ace’s 3 month 5 days of life on this planet, I left his side more than just a room away. I left here at 4:30am and returned around 7:45am – he slept for about half of that time, and Loving Husband did excellent with him during the awake time, but that little boy really doesn’t like the bottle – so I came home at a good time to feed him. But it was wonderful to meet Vanessa at JCPenny at the bleary hour of 5am and shop – we were able to take the escalator! That never happens anymore. :) We then ventured to our second stop Fred Meyer (for all you SoCal folks it’s like Target with a full grocery store.) It was an excellent time to spend with Vanessa and some good deals were found along the way.

Today (well the 28th, I’m still awake so the day isn’t over yet, hehe) also marked one year that we have been in this house. We closed on our house and came here and one year ago we put up our Christmas tree. I had been bursting to do so – since traditionally we put up the tree the day after Thanksgiving, but due to the closing date being the Wednesday after Thanksgiving – I had to wait. So one year ago we bought our house. So tonight as we were putting up the tree on the very same day a year later it was fun to look and see how our lives have changed. Watching Ace discover the ability to grip things and getting so close to crawling. It’s been a wonderful year.

I cannot wait for this Christmas season and today was a wonderful day to kick that off.

* name changed to protect the guilty.