It's the BEST DAY EVER!!!

Ok so it isn't the best day EVER but it has been a darn good day! After surviving a few emotional breakdowns last week and feeling as though I was drowning in my to do list, today I was able to breath a huge sigh of relief and I finally feel as though the weight of world has been lifted from my shoulders. Not only did I turn in my FINAL English paper today but I also took my tiny written final in Speech (which I am positive I aced) and I presented my final speech. I cannot begin to tell you how happy I am that speech is OVER!! I will miss seeing several people in that class though. We all bonded over our fear of public speaking and our disgust for our professors disorganization.

Wednesday I will have my last final, my theater final. I haven't read the play that the final will cover yet but there is a reason for that. I need it to be fresh in my mind. I plan to take care of reading it tonight after the girls go to bed :) At 12:15 on Wednesday this semester will officially be over and I will have survived and passed!! Yay! Well as far as I know, I assume I did well in theater but have no way to find that out since we have nothing of real grade value returned to us at this point. So not going to miss this lady as a teacher!!

So not only is the weight of school gone but I also took care of 2 things that I have been wanting to do and have those officially crossed off my list as well, including making the final arrangements for our moms group MNO to see Mama Mia! in March!!! I am soooo excited to go see this I can't even tell you! I have heard nothing but wonderful things about it and I love the movie. Yay me! I can't wait.

All of my many craft projects are completed (pics to come soon) and not only completed but everything that needed to be mailed has been wrapped, boxed and shipped!! So check that one off my list!

I am so close to being done Christmas shopping for the girls. So close in fact that I thought I was done until I wrote everything down and realized I have many more things for Mykenzie than I do Kaylee. I have no clue how that happened since I had no idea what I was going to buy that kid but I guess I figured it out. I plan to run out tomorrow and pick up a few final touches for Kaylee and then I will officially be done with all Christmas shopping, well that is until family members start sending me money and saying, "go buy something for the girls and wrap it up for them from me," like they do every year and every year they all wait until the last possible second to send it. I mean it is down to 11 days! I know what I am going to buy when it happens though so I am ahead of the game :)

My house is finally beginning to look like a home again. For a month you could not see the surface of my dining room table (and it is big if you've never seen it) or a good portion of the floor in the dining room because that was craft central. My living room was covered in boxes, bags, bubble wrap, and wrapping paper and was gift wrap central, my kitchen table was covered in books and notebooks, backpack ect... It was homework central (for me) I was just going back and forth from station to station getting what I could do when I had a minute. I have a ways to go on the cleaning front to catch up but knowing what it looked like just a few days ago makes me feel fine about the messy state it is now! lol

I still have many things to do from now until Christmas but it will be a walk in the park after this last month. My spirits are lifted and I am officially in full swing of the Christmas spirit!! I feel so overwhelmed with joy today and cannot stress enough how welcome it is!!