CMAS 2010 @!@#&

This will be a Christmas to remember all right.  As you can see with my last post, I spent Christmas Eve, the day before we had over 20 people at our house, in urgent care with a 17 month old with a 104.6 degree fever.  Lack of sleep would be an understatement and it has taken me this long 12/30/10 to recover from Christmas.  This is where Mason stayed for a few days.  My back is feeling it.


What is up with my face??  No we do not give Mason bottles...I was trying anything and everything to get him to drink fluids but the kid was no dummy.  He knew the second he opened his mouth he was getting a dose of meds.

 At one point at the doctor's office they wanted to give him medicine to bring the fever down.  I warned the nurse he would spit it out.  Sure enough...all sloppy, eyes half shut, lethargic Mason spit that medicine out the second it entered his mouth.  I was used it it but the nurse looked a little upset.  She should see my snot filled shoulder. 

Only way I could keep him hydrated.  Poor snot crusted kid. 

Before Christmas was actually quite exciting.  My mom came up and pooped Christmas all over our house with her decorations she bought at auctions over the years.  She seriously needs some type of intervention. 



Middle right picture you can see Jersey's tail.  Middle left picture you can see our star...nice and straight ;)



 Ok Freaky decoration below.  Sorry Mom...this one made it to trash....

So one of my newly created family tradition is to buy a few cmas ornaments.  Aidan was tickled to death helping put as he would call the "ormaments" on the tree so after school one day I took him to the store to pick out a few new ones.  I was way too lazy to drive an extra 5 minutes to target and after spending 15 minutes trying to find a Christmas store that did not exist I ended up at pier 1.  Love that store.  1 broken ornament and 1 "hidden behind candles" broken ornament later we ended up with 4 ornaments for $30.  Am I crazy???  yep cause Target sells cute ones for $2 each.

HAHA Daddy's butt hangin out...had to put him on blog blast. 

Cmas Morning....or was it night...or was it 2am..oh I can't remember....

No matter how much money or how many gifts you give your kids...it just doesn't seem like enough.  It is so hard to teach kids and adults the true meaning of Christmas.

Aidan wasn't too interested in the whole Santa thing.  He did mention he forgot to leave out cookies for him.  I assured Aidan we did.  We were running around crazy the night before...we failed to really sit down with him to talk about Santa. 

Gifts didn't stop Cmas morning...Grandmas and Aunts and Cousins brought more.  There was a lot of she got more than me and we lost the gift card and we forgot so and so this year.  But again..it's not about the gifts.  Tell that to a 7 year old girl who is sulking in the corner cause her sister got more gifts.  She didn't by the way...we count gifts in our house. 

So the true meaning of Christmas to me is spending time with Family.  There was a lot of that going on in my house with sick kids.  Please note next on my Mommy Do List so people don't send hate messages is to discard the pacies...we can do it..we can do it.



Clean playroom except for the TP mason was playin with.  He plays with TP in the playroom surrounded by toys

Card games were played...BTW Karen and I whooped Joe and Keiths A!@#$# in spaids.  We are that good!

Mason is watching his DVD on the right.  His Daddy hogs the tv to watch I am 1,000% sure he is my baby daddy type shows. 

What did I take away from this Christmas.  Dope my kids up on Vitamins before the holidays.  Keep them out of daycare for at least 2 weeks prior to any holiday.  Hire a niece to take pictures since I am way to freakin busy the day of.  Oh...and do exactly what I did this year.  Spend it with lots and lots of family!

XOXO