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(This year's Christmas card photo)
Despite the nasty weather (rain, sleet, AND snow), we've been having a lovely Christmas celebration. The girls opened their Santa presents this morning - a portable basketball hoop and ball for Bee, and the Fisher Price "Swan Palace" for Cakes. I bought both of these items online, and by combining a variety of strategies, I got free shipping, avoided store craziness, and saved 40% off retail price. YAY!
We never buy presents for Pumpkin, but he doesn't care. He likes the packaging best anyway.
Today we ate too much Christmas candy, drank a couple bottles of sparkling red grape juice (in fancy glasses), and the girls played for hours with their presents. As my husband said, the advantage of having a budget and setting a present limit is that the kids really seem to appreciate and enjoy the presents they receive, because they aren't overwhelmed by a mountain of gifts.
For supper we're making a big pot of creamy chicken and wild rice soup. It's very similar to Panera Bread's recipe, which the girls love. Tomorrow we'll have Christmas with my parents, and we'll visit my husband's family on Sunday. I'll probably spend the entire time in a semi-reclining position, to help with my pain, and I'll have to bring the nebulizer along. I'm just the life of the party these days...look out for me!
The only thing missing from our holiday is church. It feels strange and empty to not attend a church service on Christmas, but the weather has been so awful that many churches cancelled services. Even if the weather was nice, we still couldn't go, because I'm too sick. This is my 13th day of illness, and while I don't have the respiratory distress that I had previously, I still cough non-stop, and have almost no speaking voice left. My peak flows are poor, even though I do my nebulizer treatments religously every 4 hours, and my rib pain is so excruciating (it's made much worse by coughing), that I can't sit upright for more than a few minutes.
Honestly, my only Christmas wish is to feel better. The coughing is starting to exhaust me, and I'm worried about going into labor. I imagine it's pretty tough to breathe through contractions while puffing on a nebulizer...but enough of my whining! It's Christmas!
I sincerely hope that your holiday has been safe, warm and happy. Merry Christmas Friends!
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Oh gosh...that would be a scary feeling of not breathing well, and then facing labor. I sure hope and pray that your little man holds off for awhile!
That's great your family had a great Christmas. It is the one day of the year where we are home all day together, with no tv practically, and we just enjoy each other and play with our new stuff. I use to be sad we had no where to go on Christmas day, but now see it as such a blessing. This day will always be set aside for our family.
Anyways Merry Christmas Heather! :)
praying for you....
I wish you would feel better too! Merry Christmas!
Praying that you will feel better very soon and that little DJ makes his appearance at the appointed time safely and is a healthy strong baby boy! MERRY CHRISTMAS! By the way, the girls photo is precious!
Sorry to hear that you are still under the weather, but glad to know you are making the best of it. Sounds like you all had a nice Christmas. Warmest wishes to you and yours. Many blessings in 2010!!
Just remember that each day you are getting better and better!!!! I'll be praying for you, my friend.
Dearest Heather - Just a reminder that we're all still worried about you! Please, please, please consider (if you haven't thought of this already) going to the hospital if you go into labor with DJ while having such difficulties breathing. I know I can speak for everyone when I say that we all want to be sure that both you and DJ get enough oxygen during delivery. Sending a cyber hug your way, Kim
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