Friday nights have turned into a regular movie night for us. After picking up the kids, getting groceries for the next 2 weeks, and popping a pizza in the oven we snuggled in to watch Brave. Such a great movie that we all enjoyed...well, Ryan fell asleep 10 minutes into it, but the rest of us loved it. I highly recommend it.
Saturday morningI cleaned and purged. Both kids worked efficiently with me as we purged their rooms, toy boxes, and closets of old, broken, and/or unused toys, puzzles, games, and books. I was quite pleased! All our old treasures went to my favorite SPCA Thrift shop in Winchester (mainly because Goodwill, Salvation Army, and Blue Ridge Hospice Thrift Shops no longer take toys!). We are ready for the new toys to roll in on Christmas Day.
Saturday afternoon was Nick's first basketball game of the season, and also was the very first time Nick scored a point in basketball! He made a foul shot! Wahoo! The Warriors went on to win a whopping 16 - 9. Go Warriors!After gymnastics, we headed home and continued the cleaning and purging in anticipation for the decorating that began first thing Sunday morning.
It took me (with some help from the kids) all Sunday to decorate my house and put the tree up. During this time Ryan cut up more deer, friends came over and watched football, the kids played outside in unusually warm weather, we ate deer dogs, homemade amish bread, and chips/salsa, and I completed the laundry.
Monday was my annual shopping day with Samantha and Jamie. Lauren woke up with a tummy ache and upon drop off I prayed as I was walking out the door for God to keep her healthy. My instinct told me something was amiss. But, Lauren failed to produce anything yucky before daycare, and I can't keep a girl home everytime she has a tummy ache, right? Can you tell my mommy guilt was kicking in big time...right up until the shopping began. ;)
The girls and I got a bunch of shopping done and had a blast while doing it...as expected and as usual. Every year this is an outting I look forward to...and one that I get a little sad about when it's all over.
Fast forward to picking up the kids. Nick wanted to be picked up early, so I made a concious effort to do just that. I picked him up at 3:30 pm (patting myself on the back for being 2 hours early), and that's when I'm told Lauren had gotten sick after lunch. DO WHAT?! Nick and I drove quickly to the Center #1 (the little ones are at Center #1 and the grade schoolers are at Center #2 a few blocks away). I raced in to find my little girl smiling all sweet and looking just fine. Thank you God.* I grabbed her up, kissed her and apologized at least 10 times for not being there for her sooner. She laughed at me and said, 'Mom, stoooop. It's fine. I'm fine.' Thankfully that wasn't a nasty bad bug cause she was all smiles, laughs and playing Monday night.
That bug has given both Ryan and I a little trouble, but nothing we haven't been able to work thru. Nick still hasn't come down with any symptoms....yet.
This weekend we hope to meet up with the big man in the big red suit...and let the Christmas spirit grow!
*Evidently she got sick big time in a trash can after lunch. They tried to call both Ryan and I at work and at home but didn't have our cell numbers (unbelievable, I know). I have now confirmed the daycare as well as Nick's school have both of our cell numbers and it is the first on the contact lists.
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