Holiday Recap

Tuesday nightish: Decide my throat hurts a lot and call the clinic, hoping to get in and be told that I do not have strep throat and do not have to worry about being contagious to my family on Christmas Eve.

Wednesday: Go to the doctor in the morning and find out that I do, in fact, have a form of strep throat. Finish laundry, pack up, go to Enderlin for Christmas eve at my parents. Because I am contagious, I skip the candlelight service at church. This makes me sad (but not Joshua or Jameson, who stayed home to "take care" of me). The candlelight service is my favorite. I did, however, get to play some Guitar Hero with my brother. I still suck at it. Once my parents and Tanner came home from church, I started the theme for the rest of the week: Stuff Yourself with Food, Even if You're Not Hungry. We had dinner, opened gifts and then played some Apples to Apples and Mad Gab. We got a rocking chair for the baby's room ~ one of the things that I had overlooked on my "needs" list. I didn't get to test drive it yet, though.

Thursday: Santa came (I love that I'm 27 and Santa still comes to my house!). He even left stuff for the baby. I guess he needed to get a headstart or something on the years to come. Had breakfast with most of my family ~ 10:30 was too early for Jameson ;) Josh took the snowmobile out for a ride and it died in the middle of a field. Good thing he can fix that stuff on his own and what he can't fix, Cody can! Went to my grandparents for Christmas day dinner and some dirty Bingo. This was also the beginning of an awesome migraine. That night, we went back to my parents and watched some tv and played some more games.

Friday: Had lunch with my parents and Tanner, stuck around and played some video games while Josh went to Lisbon to work some and fix the snowmobile. My parents took me to Lisbon later in the afternoon for Christmas Part II. That night, we played a dice game for gifts at Dannie and Sharon's. Woohoo for Corningware! Did some more eating, even though I wasn't really hungry. Still loving that migraine....

Saturday: Visited with family. More gift exchanging. I got a book of knitting patterns for baby stuff ... and joke that by next December Josh, the baby and I will each have sweaters with hearts in the middle that I've made to take our family picture in. We got a Pack N' Play ~ which makes me happy because now I can quit looking for one, and makes Josh happy cuz he's not a fan of having to look for one with me. Lots more eating. I was in bed by 6:30 though, my brain was not cooperating with me.

Sunday: Up early for breakfast at Dale and Dorothy's. (Mooooore food.) We talked about how, if the rocking chair was ready, we probably had room to pick it up. This was before we'd loaded the truck up and saw that really we didn't have the room for it. I said next year we may need a school bus. Still trying to get rid of that migraine. Tylenol is not my friend. I realllllllllllly miss Excederin. We've been talking about getting a new camera and (I've been) looking at them since last summer. Tonight we got a new one. I had decided on one sort of like my mom's (maybe even the same one) and Josh said he wanted something with 10 megapixels (?) and so we ended up with a different one. It is lime green though, so it has that much going for it. I'm excited to test it out!

And tomorrow it's back to life as usual (sort of.)