The weekend was wonderful, although exhausting. We didn’t get to do everything we planned on as we sort of overdid it with the baking (we wound up making 8 kinds of cookies and “E” whipped up a birthday cake for Miss Artistic’s quickly appraching 14th birthday.) and Princess Nibbles was sick all weekend. We had wanted to go out to look at holiday lights, we had wanted to go out to a movie, neither happened. We spent over an hour forcing Miss Artistic to do some much needed studying (she had several tests today) and watched The Year Without a Santa Claus
Unfortunately our Solstice weekend (which I hope becomes an annual tradition) ended on a sour note as both my friend “E” and I seem to have caught the bug that kept Miss Artistic out of school last week and kept Princess Nibbles on the couch all day Saturday. As for myself I was up nearly all night expelling pure evil and was, by this morning, totally wiped out.
As I’ve mentioned before my employer does not see fit to provide paid time off in any form and so I forced myself to go to work for 5 hours as I couldn’t afford to take the whole day. I was miserable the whole time and was never so grateful to be home as when I crawled under many blankets and slept on and off for 2.5 hours. Of course it was worse for my friend who had to get up this morning and drive for almost 4 hours before having the ability to do the same.
During my time asnooze GamerDude did a bunch of wrapping and even ran out and mailed our holiday cards. I am so grateful for that!! We are close to being “done” for the holidays although tomorrow I am going to have to run out and pick up some last minute items – gift cards, PJs for Princess Nibbles, etc.
Currently I am sitting on the couch and sipping tea – which is all my stomach seems willing to tolerate – and even that is an effort.
Here’s hoping that you and yours are enjoying the holiday season.
Blessings
Mama Kelly
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