7 days and counting

That's right, only 7 days left before Christmas. Steve and I power shopped today, and got it all done. Came home dropped off gifts and then headed to Safeway and got everything I need for baking and Christmas day. I was going to make my Grandmothers beans (a Christmas Eve tradition) but I decided it is just to much work right now. Maybe News Years Eve instead. I helped Steve and Anthony with the bird houses, and now I am tired and going to go to bed. Tomorrow is going to be a busy one.

Here are a couple of pics from the Christmas program at the church. The last one is of the boys with Father Christopher, our new priest.

Executive Decision

No Christmas letters this year. I have had to make a bunch of cuts this year. While my shoulder is on it's way to healing, it is not there yet. I find myself doing something and then having to lie down and let my shoulder rest. As my kids would say "THIS SUCKS". I had to back the family out of being Alter Servers at the Christmas Eve mass and have really cut back on the amount of baking I am going to do. I just ordered some cards with the kids pictures on it and that's it. Steve and I are getting up early tomorrow to finish up our shopping. He is off for a couple of days. He has some union stuff to do, plus the Christmas party and Santa comes through here on the train. Yeahhhh

It Pays to Have Friends in High Places

By high places I mean Walmart. A lady that works at the store is always talking to Anthony and giving him advice on games and MP3 players. She managed to get us a Nintendo DS today when there are no others in the store. It is not the first color choice of my daughter but I think she will like it anyway. When she heard the stores are all out, she started to tear up a little, and said "I guess I will have to wait until my birthday." I think she is going to be surprised.
Thank you nice lady at Walmart. We will be delivering her some cookies later this week.

It's beginning to look like Chistmas

The tree is cut down, decorated and presents under it. The house is just about decorated, the stuff is all out jut not in the right places. I have a good reason for it not to be done yet. I posted last Friday that my shoulder was sore, well it turned out to not be just a sore muscle. Flat on my back on Saturday and the er on Sunday, I have a badly sprained shoulder. The only comfortable position for me was flat on my back in bed. Steve, thank God, took some time off work to help me out. I am finally able to move around (thanks to lots of pain meds) but still having a real hard time driving. Something about the seats is just killing me. So now we aren't talking about just physical therapy. First I get to have an MRI and then we will "discuss the course of action." Followed by, "Maybe you should have listened to my advice last time you where here." Quoting my doctor. If I could move my arm, I would have punched him. I hate a doctor with a sense of humor. Steve is very concerned about what this means for his annual Christmas fudge.

All kidding aside, I can't thank Steve enough for everything he has done this week. He took care of me (made a chart of my meds and kept track of it) managed the kids and their crazy schedules. Did ALL the laundry, cleaned the house, did the dishes, hiked with the kids to get our Christmas tree and made sure all the homework was done. He made sure that I didn't have to worry about anything. Also, a big Thank you to my kids. The first night I was down and Steve wasn't home, Anthony walked up to the Chinese food place and brought home dinner. All three kids have gone out of their way to not fight and try to help me out.

THANK YOU GUYS!!!!!

Ready for Bed

We finally started putting up all the Christmas decorations. We still don't have a tree yet. We like to go hiking up in the mountains and cut one down ourselves. Today, it was snowing to hard up there so we have to wait a day or two and then see how it goes. I pulled a muscle in my shoulder today and it really hurts tonight. It's an ongoing problem that I have and need to start physical therapy. I just really don't want to. We are friends with the therapist and I don't like how he and Steve are whispering about my possible treatment. I am sensing a lot of pain in my future. lol
Speaking of snow, we have some again. Not as much as before, but it still is very pretty on the ground. Tomorrow we are making a trip to WalMart to see Santa. We watched Polar Express tonight (good movie) and then teased Megan (a nonbeliever) that she could not see or hear our bell. Us being me and Jason, because we of course are believers. If you haven't seen the movie, rent it, it is a good one.
Well, the meds are kicking in, so it is off to bed for me.

The Crazy Season Has Started

It is here, the crazy season. Between all 3 kids and a husband, I don't think I have a free night until Christmas. Last night was Jason's Christmas program and it was very cute. He was so excited. The kids where supposed to be teddy bears. Poor kid, today he came home sick from school. We have been putting off getting out our decorations, but Steve is out in the garage right now getting boxes down. So I guess it is time to get started.
I added a video of one of the songs they sang last night. Anthony is the one who did the taping for me. He didn't do to bad. I had to load it up on YouTube and then add it here. The BlogSpot video upload has not been working right lately, so I am trying YouTube.

Weather

We go from near blizzard conditions yesterday, to torrential down pours today. The rain and wind up here are just crazy. So far the only damage to our house, is the icicles that knocked down Anthony's bedroom window screen. By time this storm makes it way through here we should see an inch of rain. Not good for the snow in the mountains. Yesterday Anthony and I had to work outside in the 45mph winds and snow to sell Christmas trees for his Philly trip. They closed the highway in both directions, the wind and snow was so bad. Tonight it sould drop below freezing again and freeze all the standing water we have here. Yeahhhhh, an ice skating rink in the streets. lol