90% Awesome

I have put off starting a blog for quite some time. I have started and stopped at least a dozen times. Why, you ask? Basically because even though I have the desire to share my perspective on the world, why would anyone care? I have come to the conclusion that if I can share my stories and impart any nuggets of wisdom that would help another person out or at the very least make them laugh, then I feel I have contributed something to the greater good. Plus, the blog name 90% awesome was too perfect to go to waste. Thanks for reading and I look forward to *hopefully* entertaining at least one person (likely my mother), but hey one person is better than none. About Me: I'm a thirty-something (apparently I have crossed the threshold into not revealing my true age anymore--or at least that is what I have been told) working wife and mother to 2 of the best children on the planet (I am not biased at all--scout's honor) and just recently a full time PhD student. I love knitting,...

Well, here I am--getting my first post started. My goal is to blog weekly, but since I am 90% awesome, don't be too surprised if it way more erratic than that. Some weeks I might blog every day, and then I might disappear for a few weeks. Again, this is where the 90% awesome comes in. Today I want to chat about my day yesterday. Yesterday began like most Sundays do around my house, the children waking my husband and I up because we mistakenly thought that letting our kids stay up late the night before would yield a later wake up time. You would think we would have learned our lesson by now, but alas we have not. We decided to go visit Santa in an effort to avoid any crowds. A little background on our local Santa: we have two different locations to visit Santa in our town, one at the local mall which costs like a million dollars for a photo (or more like $40, but come on!) and another Santa at another mall (mall is a huge stretch, it's more like a giant office building with ...