Laidback,
You are so right about not liking this time of year as much without kids. After I hit my late teens it wasn't a big thrill anymore, but now my dh is just a big kid, and I have to make him a stocking,etc. and then my two young children-it is really fun. It is a lot of work for me, but I love to sneak surprises in on them all.
Faith, I am sorry about your little one getting stitches and going into the emergency room. I know just how you feel.
I had to have my son a month early, and when he was 5 weeks old he got pneumonia really bad all of a sudden, and his lungs started filling with fluid and we were visiting my parents an hour away. We were driving like maniacs trying to get him to the hospital in time, and I was in intensive care with him for a week. I was so scared. I was so stressed my hair started falling out, and I was nursing him, and my milk factory, so to speak
, shut down completely and I had to go with formula. My whole body just pooed out.
He is great now, but I remember it like yesterday. It is so stressful when a little one gets hurt and they don't understand the doctors hurting them are really helping them. Kiss his boo-boo for me!
We are cleaning the house and getting ready for our annual New Years party. I'll have a glass or two of champagne, but I am buying snacks like Doritos that I really don't like, but everyone else does, so I won't be in them all night.
I hope to come through to my weigh in after the holidays holding steady and ready to start dropping weight again.
Have a good one,
Aphil