Christmas

1. Christmas 

We had another great Christmas season.  We went to my parents' house for Christmas Eve and then did our hot chocolate and bedtime routine at home.  The boys were up at 6:15 and we did presents and played all day.  We had a Lego building party and the four of us sat at the huge round table and worked.  Owen asked for a $150, 2000 piece set this year so that will take up HOURS of our time.  I am sure that we will be working at that project a lot more today.  

Last night we went to Kara & John's house.  It was low key and easy.  

 We leave hot chocolate for Santa.  Don't ask questions....no one else does.

2. A good night of sleep

I don't think that I am going to enjoy a good night of sleep for a LONG time.  I get up every few hours to go to the bathroom and I am generally uncomfortable.  I do know what a good night of sleep feels like and I am grateful that I experienced it at one point in my life and I plan on doing it again in the future.

3. Cameron is asleep

Cameron is STILL sick with pneumonia and an ear infection.  He usually just plows through the day but we are officially out  of Tylenol and ibuprofen.  ...wait...he's up....  but STILL....he slept until 752.  He got up crying again in the middle of the night with a fever and general unease.  I hope that he shakes this soon and glad that Kara wrote more prescriptions yesterday and checked him again last night.  It wouldn't be a winter without Cameron being sick.

...wait...he just got up to pee and then went back to bed.  Owen and I are in the living room so I heard the whole thing.  I wonder if he will actually fall back asleep.  He needs the sleep FOR SURE.

4. Gift Cards

We received a lot of great gifts this year but one of them includes hundreds of dollars in gift cards to different restaurants.  This is something that we asked for because we love going out to eat but I hate spending the money.  Excited to use these in the future especially when JackJack arrives I will be getting take out a lot.

5. Shaking up the collection

I organized Mike's rock collection for Christmas.  ...Long story.... but anyways, while handing it to him I accidentally tipped it and all the rocks mixed up.  I almost started crying.  He was a nice as ever and didn't make me feel bad.  But holy....complete fail.