Last night was a LONG, tough night. Ken left for work as usual though we had issues with getting the kids to sleep. I did manage to get some things done and then around 1:30 decided to go to bed. That is when I heard the door open – Ken had dropped a palatte on his foot! OUCH thankfully none of his toes are broken, it did not fall on his big toe directly but he cut up one of his toes and bruised most of them rather severly. So out came the rubbing alcohol, swabs and bandaids. He is still hobbling a little today and calling in to say he will not be at work since walking around today just to get groceries and the last of our gifts caused the cut toe to bleed again. He plans on picking up another shift later this month. Poor guy.
Now the crying infant – Emanuel had a VERY rough night last night. After about 4 or 5 am he just could not sleep. Screaming for no apparent reason, thrashing around to get comfortable… it was a long night for us. Today he was rather tired and tonight we had to fight to get him to sleep. All three boys have mild colds – runny noses and sneezing but nothing horrible thank goodness. I just hope this is a quick cold.
Tomorrow the Den Otters are supposed to come over for a Christmas meal and then we are all going to our church’s choir concert. I went to M&M’s and got our lasagne and garlic bread, I have the lettuce and dressing for salad and we picked up some two bite brownies. hopefully I can get everyone fed and cleaned up in time for the concert. Early dinner I think what with the concert being at 7 and I estimate we need to be at the church by 6:45 so we can get settled and organized. Not that the twins will stick around long, I bet they are in the nursery before it is half over.
I stopped and got a snowman at what used to be Radio Shack that you plug into your USM port and it changes colour in time to some snippets of Christmas music. The boys love it. We also took the kids to the dollar store to pick out a gift for their Grandma Anna (my mom)… $10.00 of red garland… I have no idea what she will do with it, but they wanted to get it. Better than the two flashlight batteries we had them put back. I am not sure they really understood the concept but they had fun going up and down the aisles looking at everything.
I must brag a little – tonight I FINALLY hit level 60 in WoW – with my priest Anahita… after that I went directly to get my epic mount. I had over 950 gold when I levelled, 50 short of my original goal of 1000 gold BUT more than enough for the new mount and training to ride it. So now I am going onto another server that Ken’s boss/friend Jeff has a guild in to play a brand new character and for once NOT a priest. I think I will do the Christmas quests with Anahita and then wait to play her further when the expansion comes out and any killing I do will help me level to the new topper – 70… and a FLYING mount.
We had the boys decorate foam stockings I had gotten at Michaels and put them up on their door – we also did one up for Emanuel (Ken tried to get him to put stickers on his but he really was not interested) and I finally got the binder clips to put the first of our cards up on my ribbons in the livingroom so the place is basically decorated. There are tons of presents under the tree – many I need to get sent out to people – sorry everyone, with postage being so expensive most of our gifts and more than a few of our cards are going to make it to you AFTER Christmas, but they WILL get there. We still need to decide what kind of a photo gift we are getting Ken’s folks, but we plan on doing that AFTER Christmas. Wednesday we need to get everything but the ham (we got that today) for our Christmas dinner but we are basically ready – well I am – I am rather sure Ken still needs to shop for me.
Ken and Jeff went to Zellars this morning to buy his Wii but they did not get their shipment in, so I guess the guys will be going when the store opens on Monday (they do not get shipments in on weekends) with the hope of getting one. You cannot pre-buy it is all first come first served. So fingers crossed. Our new tv from Dell gets here on Wednesday so Ken is really hoping his Wii will get here by then.
One week and it is Christmas – where has that time gone???