Long Time No Type

Am I the corniest person out there or what? It's been a wild and crazy week but I'm finally up to posting again. I guess a recap of the past week would be appropriate since so much has happened.

December 23rd
Jackson still had a fever on Saturday when he woke up. We had already called off his birthday party because there was no way he was up for traveling. In doing so it did take a lot of the stress off of me to have the house finished by Friday night. Lee and I both cleaned the house and he put together the rest of the trampoline and I put together Jackson's outside playhouse. We really accomplished a lot but it didn't feel like it. Jackson slept off and on from 10:30 until 5:30. He was so pitiful. He'd wake up and then roll back over to sleep. His eyes looked so tired and sick. He was burning up all day long. I ran out to the grocery stores and when I came back cooked meatballs. Jackson was up for a good bit Saturday night. His fever finally broke durning the evening. Elizabeth called while we were all in bed and he talked to her for a moment and when I got the phone from him he looked at me and said "Beth Beth gone gone". It was the cutest thing I'd ever heard. So darling.

December 24th
We got up and I vacuumed and mopped the kitchen and did a few last things around the house. We got on the road at 11 and headed up to Birmingham. I had felt sick off and on during the week but it was finally getting to me on the drive up. I had gotten a sandwich but felt so bad I couldn't even eat it. We had a fairly uneventful drive up to Birmingham. Not too much traffic on the road and Jackson was so good. He looked so much better.

We got to my parents around 3:30 or so and Lee brought in all of the gifts and luggage. I was feeling really bad by this point and it took everything in me to get our clothes out for Lee to iron so we could go to the Christmas Eve service. We went at 4:30 and it was nice. I felt like crap the entire time but did have a good time. Jackson was semi-good during the service. Lee had to take him out twice. The first time is because he noticed a man on the balcony and kept trying to talk to us and tell him about the strange man. Lee brought him back in just when my dad had the kids come and sit around him while he told this story he does every year. Jackson all of the sudden recognized my dads voice. He stopped and started looking for him and then didn't take his eyes off of him. That's very unusual because he is hardly around them.

When the service was over we went home and mom had sandwich stuff for dinner. Every year for as long as I can remember she has had chili on Christmas eve. I asked her about it and apparently my grandmother forgot to tell her that she couldn't eat it until she got there so mom had to improvise. Grandmother was her normal self this year and made some rather rude comments about different things but we're all use to it by now. I still felt horrible and I had even loaded up on some of the "good" medicine too.

We opened up Jackson's birthday presents first. I hated doing it on Christmas eve because I don't want him to ever feel as if his birthday has gotten lost in the shuffle. Mom put 2 candles on a piece of cake and we sang to him. He was so freaking cute. Then Elizabeth and I played Santa and passed out the gifts. It's something that I guess we'll always do even when our kids have kids. We've earned the right.

All of my life until the past 2 years or so we have taken turns opening gifts. We all had an order and each person would open one gift then the next and next, etc. It was always drawn out and boring. We could never just rip into the gifts. We followed this method slightly until half way through. It was great just opening things with no regard for who's turn it was. Jackson has gotten the hang of ripping packages open. It's so fun to watch him and Mackenzie's faces. I didn't open my gifts until the kids were done or almost done. I just felt too bad to do so. Lee and I each got the cutest ornament from mom and inside each of them was a $100 bill. You have no idea how glad I am mom started giving money last year. I also got a Chik-Fil-A calendar that mom tried to later steal from me to give to Ben since she thought she lost the one she had bought for him. Grandmother gave us each $50 and Elizabeth gave me some amazing lotions from Aveda and gloves to wear over the lotion. I am so excited because my hands had been cracking in the nooks of my fingers and hand.

As soon as we finished opening up everything I went upstairs to pass out. I got in Elizabeth's bed and went to sleep. I woke up at 1:00AM with a horrible migraine and she happened to have some Excederin in her room. She was so sweet and even went downstairs and got me a glass of water. Headache barely went away but I went back to sleep. Then I woke up at 5:30 or so as did she. We headed downstairs to get something for me to eat since I hadn't eaten hardly a thing all day. We had a good time and then went back to bed. I woke up and had another splitting headache and felt horrible.

We all got ready and headed out at 10 for Montgomery to see Macie, Jay and Zula. Lee drove and I kept feeling like I was going to puke in the car. I felt miserable. All I wanted to do is go home. I didn't care about any gifts or anything at all. I just wanted my bed and sleep. We got to Macie & Jay's and I thought I was going to die. It took everything in me not to just start crying. I rested for a bit while Lee went w/ the kids to pick up Zula. Then it was back to being mom. We ate really late and finally left there at 5:30. We got home around 8 and boy was I glad to finally be home.

Santa had come too. He knew we moved. I'm shocked! The kids had toys and clothes and shoes and slippers! Where in the world did Santa get everything? And Mrs. Clause was so worried that the kids wouldn't have enough. Silly lady. Never again will I worry that the kids are going without. They are spoiled rotten. It's ridiculous.

December 26
Our offices were technically closed but of course I had to go in and work on stuff. I went to the Dr. at 10 and my bp was xxx/120. I don't remember the top number but the bottom one was stroke level. I think it's because all of the drugs I had crammed in my system and the horrible migraine I had. The Dr. gave me a very wonderful antibiotic for my sinus infection and start of a respriatory infection. It better be good for $50. Then he gave me Relpax prescription for the migraine and it worked great but even w/ my insurance it was $50 and I could get only 5 pills. yeah, I think I'll pass on it next time. The other drug was a tylenol/caffeine/codine type pill to help w/ my migraines. I felt loopy and drugged earlier in the day b/c I was so sick and later in the day b/c I had drugs in my system and no food for 3 days.

I went home around 1:30 but then headed back to work at 4:30 to finish up some stuff. It sucked b/c I was suppose to be off. Oh and this is when you know I'm sick. I went to Target to fill the prescriptions. It was the 1st day of 50% off on the Christmas things. I didn't even want to look at any of it. I wanted to be in bed. Now that's sad.

Lee and Jackson met up with me later at Target and we got a 9' tree for next year. It's so purty. I'm excited and it won't look dwarfed in the house as the other one did. Then I just wanted to go home. Jackson and I went home and Lee picked up supper for us. I guess I ate at 9:30 or so and then passed out and went to bed. Oh and Kenzie was spending the night at a neighbors house.

December 27th
Still felt bad but was starting to get better. Work was busy but drugs are great. This was Lee's last day off. I went home and crashed again. Very tired and my body was trying to get back to normal. I don't think we did anything. I can't remember but it seems like I just cuddled w/ the kids in bed.

December 28th
Lee 1st day back to work after having 10 days off. I was super busy at work. Lee called me to tell me that the assistant managers got bonuses for Christmas. They never have gotten bonuses before. Ever. A few months back the head operations guy gave Lee a check for $1500 from his personal account to help make Lee happy. We had talked about the possibility of getting a bonus but he and I both figured if the far fetched idea did happen then he wouldn't get one b/c he got the other one. Boy were we wrong. He had his paystub waiting for him and another envelope. It was a check. All I'll say is it was more than his other bonus. We are very fortunate people.

Lee came by my office and took my FedEx packages for me. Then we picked up the kids and went to Target. There wasn't too much and I don't think we hardly got a thing. We all then went to go eat dinner at Longhorn. And Jana came along too. We had a really good time. I was feeling much better! Jackson was hysterical though. He was fussy and out of his chair. Kenzie went to the bathroom and I asked him if he wanted some of her mac 'n cheese. Oh My! He seriously made a beeline from the other side of the table for me. He then went into his chair wanted to get in it and eat the mac 'n cheese. It was so durn cute! Kenzie was very gracious and shared her dinner w/ him. We all left very full!

Today
Same ol same 'ol. I'm at work and tired. It's taking a lot for my body to regain strength. I'll have another long weekend though. My children are so freaking great. They're so cute. I don't know what I'd do without them. They're my friends. I don't know what our plans are for this weekend. I do know that I am going to organize all of the toys yet again and find places for everything. Jackson's room use to look so big but that's not the case anymore. toys toys everywhere are toys!