Better Watch Out and Not Cry!

For the first time in my professional career, I'm actually going to take time off between Christmas and New Years. That week that everyone in the universe seemingly always took off but me. I never did because I felt like it was wasting precious vacation days when things are usually really slow around the office. This year I have a different perspective. For one, I want to spend some time with the kid. Two, in the spirit of "throwing out fifty things" the husband and I are going attack the attic. It's to the point I can't walk around up there and I despise clutter in the spirit of living simply. But there's more to it than that. I hear things up there. I have this weird fear that someone lives in our attic and we have no idea (I know that's crazy, but when I hear bumps in the night, it crosses my mind that ax murderer lives in my attic.)

Some of this lunacy comes from the strange goings on in my house. Weird things disappear and then show up again. Recently, an entire box of cookies was gone (chocolate covered Ritz, but I digress) I never touched them, I was saving them for Christmas. Who would take a whole box of cookies? The husband wouldn't take them because he doesn't eat such things; my baby sitter wouldn't have taken them without telling me (trust me, she follows the letter of the law with the Ten Commandments and "though shall not steal" is one of them). The cleaning lady or ax man? My husband found a diamond ring a few months ago (nothing too outrageous, but still a diamond) that appeared in a bathroom cabinet. For the life of us, we have no idea who this ring belongs to or why it showed up in a cabinet that's been opened/closed a thousand times. We just assume that the toddler found it randomly and put it there. But still...weird!

Third, I plan to bake up a frenzy when I'm off and I'm so excited because I rarely have time to bake any more. A delightful blog reader (yes, I have fans believe it or not) sent me a Martha Stewart cupcake book and I plan to throw-down on that. And someone sent me the Interim mac-n-cheese recipe. I can't wait till Christmas.