FIL was released yesterday, so he is able to be home for Christmas. He has to go back Monday and swallow a pill/ camera and see if they can find the reason for bleeding.
DH kept me up until 1 am watching the Wilds and the kids woke me at 7, so sleepy here which is probably typical of most parents.
The kids like their gifts and it’s 9 degrees out, so we are basically doing nothing today. We saw the Home Alone house yesterday and then watched the movie again. On the way there DH decided to go through the city and traffic was crazy, but better on our route back. Maybe we’ll have a fire. DH is making homemade Chinese food for dinner!
Merry Christmas friends! DD woke us up at 4am and 5am and then basically kept us awake with her nervous energy from 5:20 until we all got up at 6. DH has taken a nap and it my turn now but I can’t sleep :/
Forgot to make the baguette starter last night so I’m trying a new recipe that doesn’t require sitting overnight. Cheese plate and sausages for dinner tonight!
I've just ruined Christmas dinner. My friend gave a giant ham from their freezer. It was from the pig they had bought but the ham was too big for the 2 of them. So it went to my freezer until a couple weeks ago when I gave it to mom for dinner. Well she just unwrapped the butcher paper it was I and it is green. DD and I haven't even got there yet and I'm dreading it. My mom has been in a foul mood all week and this is just making me want to cry.
DH loved his switch and TV so is st uped happy. DD loved all the scrunchies Santa sent.
After a happy morning, DS started puking. I gave him his anti nausea medicine and now he’s fine. DD complained over breakfast she felt nauseous so I’m worried they are getting something.
My cats both have diarrhea. Which means at 4:15 this morning I had to go wipe the older cat’s butt. DD decided that meant it was time to wake her brother up. I sent them both back to bed. They got up at 6:00. I’m tired.
Merry Christmas! I was up bright and early to go to exh's this morning for presents. Beau did the same to go see his son. We both came home and napped until the girls came over this afternoon. Super low key day around here, just playing with new toys and watching TV.
We had a nice day. My parents came for dinner. My sister and her crew bailed, but by the time we knew they couldn’t come all food had been purchased and much of it prepped. So we met up and I gave her a full meal - appetizers, beef tenderloin, veggies and potatoes for sides, and all of their gifts. She had to cook it all, but she wasn’t prepared for her family of 6 to be home today. She was grateful and I was happy 😊
Merry Christmas! This year is very lonely for us. We’ve never celebrated with just our family before, and I don’t like it much.
I don’t miss the traveling part. I didn’t get out of jammies until almost noon today, and that was just to take a long bath. I’m okay with that part.
But dinner at home, with just our little family, while my sisters were visiting with their families and my mom? I miss that.
I haven’t seen my mom in almost a year and honestly? I’m not so sure that next year is a given, despite all the ads urging us to stay home today so that we have tomorrow. Her memory and brain are so bad that this year may be the last that she is mostly cognizant of.
k3am, We are still seeing family but it is no where near as often. I tried to plan for it between waves, when case loads are lower. We saw IL's in the summer, for example. I'll see my sister in January which fingers crossed will go OK since numbers are going down here.
k3am I feel you. This was the first Christmas Eve where the girls didn't sleep here. I didn't have any of the usual family parties to distract me. It felt like a really blah holiday. We didn't even make a real dinner last night.
k3am - I hear you too. My parents have made the decision that they don’t want to isolate from their kids and grandkids. They both have some lung issues, which makes me nervous, but they are also both very interested in quality of life. Their quality is defined by their ability to see their kids and grandkids.
So unless there is a known exposure, we are still seeing them but trying to be careful. No hugs or kisses, but conversation and time together.
My dad’s mental health really started to suffer back in April. My sister would not allow her kids to come because she felt the risk was too great for all. So several times a week, my kids and I would drive the hour+ round trip to visit with him for a couple of hours. It was good for all of us. Now he has more interests - joined a softball team and a gym for seniors that requires an appointment and provides a dedicated trainer - and he’s relying on us less. But he doesn’t want to live his life without his family. My mom agrees. And they’re stubborn. So there we are.
I’m at the emergency vet with two cats with diarrhea. And when I called to check in they said they are running “maybe 20-25 minutes behind.” Which is code for an hour behind. It’s now 17 minutes past our appointment time.
I’m so annoyed with the rescue where we got the kitten. We are about $500 in vet bills down because of worms, coccidia (this is likely round 2 of that), and ringworm. All of which should have been caught before they adopted out the kitten. I’m not sorry we rescued him, but we should have been warned. Both the coccidia and ringworm are highly contagious.
mae0111 we would have gone to see my mom anyways this year, but our county has a quarantine for travel. So if you travel, you quarantine for 14 days. It’s not enforceable in general, but daycare understandably needs to keep their licensing and would have to enforce it.
Our county has NEVER let up on any restrictions. There was no point in time that seeing anyone outside your immediate household was technically allowed, even if it was a quarantine bubble. The fatigue is real. And we’re not in any better position than other places that opened things up when case counts were down.
twinmomma I’my sorry. I’m t couldn’t have been easy in the best of circumstances. Here’s to 2021, vaccinations, and getting through whatever other crazy things the universe sends our way as we head back to normal...
k3am - I totally get why you didn’t travel. We have similar restrictions and it prevented one of my sisters from being with us (she also didn’t want to bring a 3 month old on a plane, but she would have had to quarantine for 14 days as well, or get tested.
My other sister didn’t attend because her DH and her DD were exposed separately. But they were planning on it right up until the night before.
We traveled out of state to an equally high risk area for Thanksgiving. We had to get tested and the quarantine was fine because we just holed up with people we’d been seeing anyway (ILs). It was a huge pain to find a testing site and coordinate everything, but worth it to us.
I hope your restrictions lessen to a point where you could travel and get tested.
Work is following the big city’s travel order even though we aren’t in city limits. I can’t go out of state at all. If I do I have to get tested when I return.
School has a quarantine for travel which is new for the holidays. Luckily my sister is coming to us.
I think if it comes down to it, now that they have opened it up to a negative test, I might go. I wouldn’t if it were a 14 day quarantine.
Merry Christmas! Sounds like we were in good company with our early wake-up (5:55 here). We were on our own, but that’s not super out of the ordinary for us. We knew that was part of the deal when we moved across the country from family, and even in non COVID times we don’t usually want to drag small children on cross country flights during the holidays. We did go last year, which ended up being good timing to see everyone right before COVID. We were supposed to fly to Hawaii today. My phone keeps sending me reminders for the flights, even though I deleted the calendar entry 😡
My sister gave the kids new beach shovels and gave DS1 a remote controlled car that can go in water, so we ended up going to the beach after opening presents. Then in the evening we walked around and looked at lights. So it was fine overall. It was nice to have (our last) baby’s first Christmas to focus on.