It gets mighty hard sometimes to come up with a good title, you know?? My head still isn’t screwed on quite tight yet, so I find that a lot of my thoughts anymore are just pinging around inside my head like pingpong balls.? So glad that we’re staying home next year for Christmas because if this year was any judge, I just don’t think I could handle it.? Ahem.

Christmas Eve was a big day.? It always is in my family.? Growing up, we always had this tradition of going out to eat on Christmas Eve for lunch.? My parents would pick someplace fancy or fun; someplace we probably wouldn’t go the rest of the year.? We’d get all dressed up in our best and make an event out of it.? This year was no different.? Considering we’d have four small children in tow, my parents picked “fun” over “fancy”.? So we went to Buca di Beppo instead.? That place is a lot of fun, a lot of food and a lot of silly pictures on the walls.? We got to sit at the “Pope” table, which is one of the more popular seats in the restaurant.? It features a large round table with a lazy susan in the middle of the table.? Perfect for our group.

I got a rather exciting scare, however, when we tried to find a good place to sit Liam.? Normally, I sit next to him when we eat out but for some reason, Kile had him next to him instead.? We started out with Liam sitting in the standard restuarant style high chair which worked for a while.? Until the little guy got tired and started slouching over.? Then, it was suggested, we turn the seat over and set the infant carseat in it.? Which worked pretty well BUT apparently wasn’t as stable as one would hope.? So when Liam started to cry and Kile got up to get the bottle out of the diaper bag, the highchair FELL OVER.? And, guess what?? Liam wasn’t buckled in at the time.? The chair fell over backward, carrying my precious baby boy and I was like to have a conniption fit right then and there.? Despite the crying (his not mine), he was fine, thank god.? But I had Liam sit with me on my lap for the duration of the meal.? Wise indeed.

That night, we went to an evening service at my parent’s church.? Of course, the place was packed to the gills and it was literally standing room only.? We, thankfully, anticipated this and arrived early enough to secure an entire pew for our crew.? I sat on the end by the aisle with Liam’s stroller and carseat, where he was chilling out and recently awake from a nap.? About five minutes before the start of the service, the priest comes over and asks how old Liam is.? I told him he was five months and then the priest asked if he could use him as the Baby Jesus during the processional.? Well, heck ya!? Sounds fun to me!? Of course, it wasn’t until I lifted Liam out of his seat that I realized his rear section smelled FOUL.? And there was NO TIME to change him.? So I just had to go with it.? I went to the back of the church and stood with him until the service began.? At which time I handed Liam to the priest who proceeded to hold him high above his head (and this guy was tall to begin with) and process throughout the church.? Liam, for what its worth, was loving it.? He wasn’t the least bit scared and actually seemed very interested in the view he was getting and of all the attention that was being directed at him.? I hurried over to the manger scene, where this little parade would finish up to retrieve my baby.? As I carried him back our seats, everyone turned and smiled at us.? I felt pretty proud of my little guy.? It isn’t every little baby that gets to be treated like the Baby Jesus. Of course, then I promptly handed the little stinker off to Kile for him to change.? Because PEEEYEW!

I also got a new cellphone, at long, long last!? It was a long and crazy journey to get it, too.? The plan all along had been to get a Razr.? But then I started to wonder if I didn’t want a straight mp3 phone since I don’t have an ipod and have mp3 envy.? I was going to get one for my birthday but we were po’.? So I went ahead and ordered a standard cheapo from the Cingul@r online store. About ten minutes after I did so, I regretted that immensely as it was generally regarded by all reviews as a piece of crap.? So I called up Cingul@r to cancel but it was already shipped.? Like, THAT fast.? So I decided I’d give it a try.? It arrived and I plugged it in to charge the battery, as the manual directed.? Of course, the dumb thing wouldn’t even charge up.? I couldn’t get it to turn on.? So I called Cingul@r to send me some return labels.? Which they did but I didn’t get them for about ten days.? We sent it back right away.? Right before Christmas, I was at Wal-Mart and saw they had Cingul@r upgrade phones there for like a FRACTION of the price of the online upgrade.? Holy crap!? So ten days after I sent the stupid POS phone back, I called.? They hadn’t gotten it.? Ugh.? Waited a couple more days.? They got it, and the upgrade link would be put back on my account.? I checked, and NO it was not up.? So we called again.? This time, they put it up.? Of course, I clicked the link just to check and it STILL didn’t work.? Got a message saying that I already had an upgrade in progress.? So I called them and they said, to restart my computer, that the message wasn’t on THEIR system.? Riight.? Of course, restarting didn’t do diddly so I just decided to go to Wal-Mart and hope for the best.? Thankfully, the upgrade went off without a hitch and I am now in the possession of the sweetest dark red Razr ever.? It will play mp3s if I purchase a separate microSD card for storage, which I haven’t yet.? So in the end, I got just what I wanted.? Yay me!

I think that was all that I had to mention, but knowing me, there’s a dozen more things I forgot.? In the meantime, I’m going to wrack my brains for some decent New Years resolutions/goals/whatever and see if I can’t post some of those up tomorrow.? I feel so goal-less without them!!