Christmas at Maga’s

On the weekend, we packed up the van and zoomed over to Maga’s house. Grandpa B flew home from the land of sunshine and palm trees, but caught a bug and spent the first part of the day in bed. We were happy to meet C’s sweetheart . . . he thinks he’s so sneaky, but I told him to bring someone along. I reminded him of this, and I think it’s such a nice thing that he listens to his sister ;) We all enjoyed getting to know L, and she impressed me by remembering all the kids names and knowing who to call what. Little niecey G crowned her, then snuggled right up to play some video games on my mom’s phone.

We also celebrated . . . five birthdays? Wait six . . . it was a lot of names to fit in one round of the birthday song. Noodles for lunch, cake and donuts for dessert, piles of presents for birthdays and Christmas, kids roller-skating—oh wait, those were ours—through the kitchen, cousins, nieces and nephews acting goofy, playing together, talking, laughing, whew! It was a fun day, and it was nice when dad felt well enough to come down for some conversation.

Unfortunately that was the only time we got to see him, because our new New Year’s tradition is getting sick for two weeks straight. Kind of like last year, where the kids were (are) achey, coughy, snotty, sneezy, fevery, ear-achey. I managed to escape the germs . . . from the fb article I read, it’s because I’m a writer, and writing improves my immune system (wink ;) No really, it was mostly people praying for protection, thank you all! That pretty much catches us up, since we did not leave the house (all activities blessedly suspended for two weeks Christmas break), until this week. Still the boys are not 100%, B was up last night wailing because his ear hurt so bad. I think maybe though, we are on the upswing!

 

(It's been a week since I wrote that . . . B has severe double ear infection, C is also on antibiotics for ear infection, my husband is on antibiotics for ear/sinus infection, and my stint of wellness has crumbled into coughs and hollow sounding ears . . . ugh!)