Speaking of Christmas, can I just say that I am SOOOO glad it's over! All of our Christmas stuff is stored out at my sister's house in one of their garages (yes, I said one, because they have a two-car garage, a very large shed and then some sort of big, I don't know, out-building thing that's like the size of a three-car garage where my BIL keeps his plows, 4 wheelers, and whatever else he thinks he needs.
As we went through our stuff we realized that mice had gotten into the xmas tree box and chewed a giant hole in my tree skirt that my mom had given me. I was very sad. Also they seemed to have chewed on the lights on the tree because there were two sections we just never got lit. We bought this xmas tree a few weeks before Blake was born and I was attracted to it because it was pre-lit and it spun. I loved our spinning tree. Well, last year when Adam brought the stuff home he couldn't find my spinning tree stand so he had to buy me a regular one and I had to do without. This year STILL no spinning tree stand and the regular one he bought last year just didn't want to keep the tree in an upright position. We put the tree up on a Tuesday night and it snowed that night. Adam got up at 3am to go plow snow and the tree had fallen over. Ornaments everywhere. It was horrible. The only funny part about the whole experience was that the tree had fallen onto Blake's snow pants so it looked like he was under the tree. I snapped a couple pictures when I decided to stick Blake's boots in the end of the pants to make it look more authentic.
Adam decided to buy me a new spinning tree stand. While while we were at the store we were telling the girl at the register about our tree disaster and the pictures I took. She said it would make a funny Christmas card.
In the end I only lost one ornament that couldn't be repaired, so I guess that's not too bad considering how many were broken.
Christmas came and my sister, of course, went WAAAAAY overboard with the stuff she bought for the kids. We run into several problems with her at Christmas time.
1. She never had kids of her own so she doesn't have other people to spend money on.
2. She makes good money and is good with her money so she has a lot of it to spend at Christmas time.
3. My sister likes to shop. And shop, and shop, and shop.
4. She probably spends EASILY more than $500 on each kid. Easily.
5. Because she buys so much it takes us FOR-EV-ER to open everything.
My sister and I were talking just before Christmas about when and where we were going to do everything. I said I had Christmas Eve off and so did she. My BIL only had to work until 1:00 so we figured we would start as soon as he got home and just unwrap all day. She actually said, "I hope we have time to unwrap everything." Knowing we would have from like 2pm until, I don't know, 10pm--?? she was concerned there wouldn't be enough time. This is how much stuff there was, people!
Come Christmas Eve my BIL farted around after work and once my sister FINALLY called him at like 3:00 to find out where he was (seriously, who would wait that long?) he says he didn't know when we were doing our stuff. He was at a friend's house researching some gun he's been panting over. He still had to go pick up his mom, who as it turns out, also wasn't ready. WTH? Now I KNOW we're not going to get done. And we didn't, though we came close.
The kids got way more stuff than they need. I got a large jewelry box armoire, a giant roll of stamps, an In-Styler, some Hallmark ornaments, Adam and I each got a gift certificate to Texas Roadhouse and that's all I can remember.
Normally on Christmas day we would go over to my sister's in-laws for dinner and to watch them open their presents. See, my sister and our cousin married two guys who are brothers. This means that my sister and our cousin both have the same in-laws, which is kinda cool cuz then we all get to be together for Christmas. Because the FIL passed away it was decided we weren't going to their house for Christmas day to give the MIL a break. They are farm people and she makes the hugest spread of food. Well on her own she decided she DID want a Christmas at her house and she decided to have it the day AFTER Christmas. This made our Christmas extravaganza, the one I just wanted to be DONE WITH, last three days. THREE DAYS PEOPLE!
Enough about Christmas, because seriously...
We are in the middle of Girl Scout cookie time. This is Emily's first year as a scout (Brownie, actually) and we're not doing too bad on cookie sales. I was surprised that they only give you a couple weeks to sell and then that's it. You're done. People do love their GS cookies, though. One of our neighbors bought 17 boxes.
Blake has been pretty sick this month. He has been tested for everything and they were never able to find out what was wrong with him. We fought a fever that would get up to over 103 for over a week. He missed the first week and a day of school after Christmas break. He wasn't eating and would just sleep all the time. Whatever it was finally worked it way out of his system and he went back to school this last Tuesday. It took another day or two for his appetite to come back but he's finally eating again. He ended up losing four pounds, poor guy. I'm so glad he's better though. There's nothing scarier than a sick kid.
Well I hope all of you are doing well! Sorry for the long delay in posts! I'll try to make it up by only waiting like 6 weeks until my next post, instead of 8 or 9, ha!
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