Festivities

The whole week of Thanksgiving, I was really itching to start Christmas. I threatened to decorate about a week early, and I almost did, too. But then Kevin said that if I decorated early, he'd just open all his presents early. He knows me too well. That makes me soooo mad! If you open your Christmas presents early, then they're not Christmas presents. They're just random stuff that someone sends you. And if all your presents are opened, what are you supposed to do on Christmas morning? Yeah, answer that, will you.

So I put a wreath on our door and called it good.

I just didn't want our neighbor's decor to feel lonely. His had been up for several weeks already... which is ironic because he's super grumpy. Once in a while we take Penny to run around in the hallway and play soccer. If he's home and hears her, he opens his door and glares at us from his wreath-bedecked doorway.

Anyway.

Once Thanksgiving had passed, we moved full-steam on to Christmas! We pulled out the tree, tree skirt that I finally finished, and all our awesome decorations. We sang Christmas carols, listened to them on Pandora, and got out our nativity sets. We'd read Penny's little Christmas Story book, and once in a while we'd watch a Christmas movie like Charlie Brown or The Snowman. We kept it up for a couple weeks.

But for the last week or so, we've been sick. Well, Kevin was sick last weekend, and now Penny and Naomi both have something. Naomi threw up a couple times last week, and today I had the joy of cleaning up Penny barf like 3 times... so far.

I'm getting a little sick of watching The Snowman multiple times per day, but at the same time, I love it. It's only a half-hour long, so it doesn't glue Penny to the TV for very long. It doesn't have any scary parts like most other movies do. And Penny loves it! She tells us about the snowman, the rabbits, the flying, the mommy snowman, and everything else that happens. I feel like her brain hasn't completely shut off when she watches it. It's a good movie.

I'm hoping the kids get better soon so we can resume our Christmas festivities. I'd love to get out of the house occasionally, too. But most of all, I just hope I don't get it. I'm very grateful for being spared thus far, and I'll just keep washing my hands.