Christmas time means cards, and packages, which means Cason worked a lot. By the week before Christmas, he was working 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. Add my work schedule, and we rarely saw each other, let lone have any time to do anything as a family. It was really trying on all of us.
Before all the madness began, we went to the Festival of Trees. I don't know if Cason or Lilli had much fun, but I really enjoyed it. Along with the trees, they had a kids area where Lilli wrote and delivered a letter to Santa, painted and ornament, fished for treasure, and made a reindeer puppet.
Our elf, Joy did some funny things, we played at cousin Dylan &Neko's house,and Lilli continued to love every minute of school!
Speaking of school, Lilli missed the last 3 days of school before break because she had croup. She had been coughing a little bit for a day or two, but things got bad when she woke up one night and projectile vomited all over the couch, ottoman, and floor. It was so bad! Immediately after, she looked up at me and calmly said " what did I do? I peeled off her clothes, put her in he bath tub & got busy cleaning the living room. The next day, she was coughing so hard that she vomited several more times. All she wanted to do was sleep, which is not normal for her, even when she's sick. Luckily, I was able to get her into the doctor that day. They gave her a dose of steroids, and on the way out she threw up...all down the hallway. Oops. So, she got another dose, and they sent us on our way. Within a couple of days, she still had a cough, but felt much better.
It started snowing the week of Christmas. It was fun that we would have a white Christmas, but working in it was not fun! I hate driving in the snow!
On he 23rd, I went to work, came home, and baked all night long. It probably wasn't the best idea, but I'm glad I got it done this year!
We had dinner with Cason's family on Christmas after Cason got off of work. We hung out for a while, played a game of Christmas bingo with some really fun prizes.
Since Cason had to work Christmas Day, we decided (at the last minute) to open presents on Christmas Eve. I left Bountiful a little before Cason and Lilli so I could get everything set up, and told Lil Santa had come while we were at Grandma and Grandpa's house. We all got some great gifts( including iPhones for Cason and I), and Lilli was ecstatic as usual. By the time we were done it was about 1am, so I hadn't slept for almost 48 hours, and Cason only got 2 1/2 hours before he had to go to work on Christmas.
(She got both of the things she asked Santa for: A red dragon & a lot of bubble gum)
(box full of care bears)
Lilli and I slept in late, and then went to the Holloway's for Christmas dinner. It was so nice of them to invite us, and the food was delicious!
I had to work on New Years Eve ( which was crazy busy), and Cason worked on New Years Day ( at 4am) we decided to postpone our celebrations until later in the week.
So, as I said, it was not a great December, but we tried to make the best of it. Hopefully we'll be better prepared next year!
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