Good to be home

What a trip. We had to go 2 hours North today for Christmas with my mom's side. I love seeing my grandpa and a couple of my cousins but I really don't like the rest of the family. 1 aunt always causes a fight. She picks on someone every year. It has not been me for a couple years now.

Here is the drama that ensued:
My aunt picked a fight with my cousin, her neice, over the way my cousin's child was behaving.
My mom was sick and crabby.
Grandpa didn't have the cards filled out so he had to quick do that.
One of my cousins got hit on the way there and put her car in the ditch.
The little kids were mostly good but a few were naughty which caused some of the older people to freak out.

We left after only a couple hours of being there. My ears hurt from all the talking and screaming going on. My Grandpa, bless his heart, gave us a nice chunk of money for a present. Part of it went to each of the girls for their savings accounts. I told him not to get us anything so he gave us cash instead. I appreciate it alot. Basically what he gave us paid for a full tank of gas for hubby's SUV and we had a little left over. That was sooo nice of him to do.

I had the chance to talk with Grandpa's girlfriend a little bit more today and that was nice. She is a sweet lady, who is a widow. Grandpa is a widower. My Grandmother passed away almost 2 years ago. Just after Christmas. I like Grandpa's girlfriend but I feel kind of strange about it because she is not my Grandma. I am glad she makes Grandpa happy though. He deserves to be happy after dealing with my Grandmother's illnesses for so long. We got a four generation picture today and that looks so nice. I am going to have it published in our local paper. We had a 5 generation the year that K was born.

So glad it is over

I already took down the Christmas tree and decorations. I am just glad that Christmas is over with. I love christmas but it is so stressful and busy. There is really no way to make it any less busy for us either. At least it is over.

Mom won a slam dunk basketball game. They set it up in the basement the other night and we played with it alot yesterday. It was so fun. I can't wait until New years for the tournament we are having out there. Every year on New Years' Eve, we hang out at my parents house and have a few beers. It is nice.

Merry Christmas!!!

Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and enjoys the time with their family. Feliz Navidad!

Awesome Night

O slept in her crib all night. ALL NIGHT FROM 9 PM UNTIL 5 AM. She only woke up at 5 because I came downstairs to check on her and to go to the bathroom and while stumbling around in the dark, I tripped and crashed the baby gate. She actually slept better downstairs last night than she does sleeping with me. If this continues I will feel like a whole new woman.

We got snow last night and it looks like a lot of it from my windows. I have not ventured out yet to shovel the sidewalk and driveway. I should but I am going to wait until hubby wakes up.

We decided last night that we are having our Christmas today. Since we can't go anywhere, it will be nice for K to have some new toys to play with. It will occupy her today and tommorrow. She gets quite antsy by the 3rd day of being in the house. Tommorrow will be day #3. So when hubby wakes up, we are opening our presents. He stayed up late playing Xbox online with his buddies so it may be an afternoon Christmas

Christmas is postponed

Due to the inclement weather that is headed our way my Grandpa decided to postpone Christmas at his house until next weekend. I am pretty happy about that. I wanted to go, but only to see Grandpa really. So we will be heading North next Sunday for Christmas. That makes this weekend a bit more relaxing, at least in this household.

no traveling

We are under a winter storm watch. We are supposed to get 3-6 inches of snow Saturday night into Sunday Morning. We are supposed to drive almost 2 hours North on Sunday morning for Christmas with my Mom's side of the family but it is starting to look as though we will not be going. I am not taking the babies out if we get that much snow. Especially not that far. It sucks. I really want to see my grandfather.

Believe it!!

Christmas is only 5 days away!!! I bought the final gift yesterday. A gift card for my grandfather. All the presents are wrapped. I am ready for Christmas to get here and then be gone. I love the holidays but I am just not feeling it this year. Previous years I could hardly wait for Christmas. I am excited to see K's face when she opens her gifts but I could care less if I get anything. Maybe it is due in part to the fact that Hubby and I are not getting each other anything. We can't afford to and we really don't need anything.

I talked to hubby about going to work full-time. He said it is whatever I want to do. If I want to work full-time, cool. If not, cool too. While I want to stay home with the girls I also know how stir crazy we get when we are home all day everyday. We can afford to live on one income but there are so many things that I want to do and so many things that we need to do (fix up the house is a big one) that we just cannot do on one income alone. Granted, my income after paying for the sitter, isn't much but it is something. It is enough to do projects on the house.