Yesterday, I walked into the bedroom to get Punky up and going, and there he stands stark naked. “Diaper off, Mommy….me helpin’…..” (again, he speaks in Punky-nese……which is translated to, “I took off my diaper, Mommy…..I was helping you!”)

Dropped off Punky at daycare where he now says, “Mommy leave” after I have taken off his jacket and kissed him goodbye. (I guess that beats crying! But my little guy is growing up so fast!)

I went to school and held a meeting to dismiss one of my students from special education…..always a celebratory meeting! 🙂 That went well.

I muddled through the day….still in a fog from everything that has been going on….and now I am sick on top of it, so not sure if my fogginess is due to stress or sinus meds! LOL!

On my prep time, I went to mail my dependent care claim through inter-district mail, and I missed the mail delivery by 5 minutes…..so I had to drive 15 minutes after school across the river to the district office and drop it off so I can get my money on Friday when I get my paycheck. Since I was then 1/2 way to the vet, I decided to bite the bullet and go pick up sweet Nala’s ashes. (They called last week while I was in Chicago to say she was ready to be pickled up). I picked her up…..and collected the bill! ($543! Hubby had guessed around $350………boy was he shocked!) I still can’t believe how heavy that little box is! We’ll be burying her ashes in the spring when the ground thaws. 😦

Then, I went to pick up Punky from daycare. I thought he shouldn’t be with me when I picked up Nala…..he’d be really confused as to why she was now in a box…..and then he’d want the box open….and that would be BAD!

We drove home and saw that our Christmas cards finally came. One of Punky’s favorite past times is to go visit “Mommy’s Ghoul” (again…I’ll translate for you…..”mommy’s school”). We came over to school and hung his picture on the huge Christmas tree cut outs in the staff workroom. We then grabbed a copy of our Christmas letter that he wrote and went to the UPS store to get copies made.

Hubby was out to eat with his friend, Audra, so Punky and I went on a “date” to McDonald’s. Punky ate his french fries one by one…..dipping them each in ketchup before chomping on them. He wanted a “burger” but then wouldn’t eat it…..he only ate the pickle from it! Guess next time we will be sticking to Chicken McNuggets!

We then went home and had a bunch of Mommy-Punky snuggling time while we read books and watched Cars. He went to sleep and I addressd over 175 Christmas card envelopes! All we have to do now is fold teh letter and stuff teh envelopes, stamp our return address on them, and then put stamps on them and send them off! (Sounds easy…..but will probably take the next few days to finish them!)