What a month

*November has been a doozy of a month, huh? Between my Cubbies winning the World Series after 108 years (AMAZING! YAY!) to the ridiculous election results (it's going to be really hard to put the words "President" and "Trump" together for the next few years), the beginning of the month was nuts and the craziness has yet to let up. Being a member of Pantsuit Nation on Facebook has been super helpful for my mental state to see all of the great posts from people across the country. I am definitely worried about what is to come in the next four years- to my job, to me as a woman, to friends that are minorities, etc. We'll see...but in the meantime I am heartened that people are standing up and hopefully continuing to take action against hate.

*I went to the Cubs world series parade (yes I was part of the 5 million people that went) and I wish that I had been closer to the street as it was hard to see much. However, I had to get back to work so I went to the closest spot that I could find and didn't realize that other spots along the parade route weren't going to be as crowded. Oh well.

The red circle in the middle? That's where I was standing. If I just could have gotten to the other side of the street....

*In other news, the house remodel is totally stressing me out. The company that we started to work with is telling us that after months of working with them on plans, picking out finishes, etc. that our remodel is going to cost about $50K more than we wanted to spend. We are totally frustrated because if this company thought that we would be way over budget then they should have told us months ago that the scope was looking a little too large. 

Since then we have expended more time and effort to reach out to a couple other companies to see what they would price for the remodel. One of them was a guy that I reached out to when we were thinking about redoing our basement before we realized it would be too expensive for what we would get in the end. He came back with a price that is just a few thousand over our max budget and pledged to look to find possibly more savings by getting creative with the drawings/what we have done so far. So I am feeling slightly better.

*Thanksgiving was good, but a long day. Here is my favorite picture of the day:

The only person who didn't eat anything on Thanksgiving is stuffed

*This Sunday is Izzy's third birthday party (her actual birthday is Tuesday). We thought about doing a big party somewhere but then realized that we didn't want to spend tons of money on a big party when she likely wouldn't remember it. So it will be a small party- my parents, my sister/her husband, family friends, and a family from daycare (her best friend from daycare sadly can't make it). Fingers crossed she has fun. She has been looking forward to this birthday for a while now.

*This week we signed Izzy up for winter activities to make sure she gets some running around time while it's cold out. We plan on getting her outside a lot on the weekends but it will be a bit harder with Wes as one of us will have to stay inside with him. On Saturdays she will be doing soccer with me and on Sundays she will be taking swimming lessons with CP. I think that it will be nice for her to have the one-on-one time with both of us on the weekend anyway.

I hope to write actual posts sometime soon, but frankly between work and home life has been crazy so these bullet posts are easier....