Christmas 2010 will go down as the Christmas filled with vertigo for me. I first got vertigo when I was pregnant. It has come and gone ever since and can be devastating for me. I also know that people have it much worse than me and I am thankful I am not one of those people.
This time it started the Thursday before Christmas, which was our last day of school before break. It came at about 9:00 in the morning. I know by now that if I don’t take medication immediately when I feel it come on, I won’t be able to catch it in time and then I start getting sick and I would be on my way home. The downside to taking the medication is that it makes me very tired. The medication helps with the spinning, not with the nausea. However, once the spinning stops, the nausea usually goes away after that.
I made it through the day and went to bed early that night!
Christmas Eve was spent at my mom and dad’s. Mike mom, Dave, sister, brother-in-law, and nephew join my family each Christmas Eve. It’s nice to be able to have both families together. We are spoiled that everyone gets along so well.
Christmas day was spent together, just the four of us! I love this. Not only can Santa come, but there is no rushing to get out of the house. The kids are able to play with their things, and no one gets out of their pajamas all day. It’s heavenly. We watched Harry Potter 4 because Noah finished the book and lounged around.
The kids opened their gifts from each other Christmas morning. Usually it’s the one present they get to open Christmas Eve, but we came home so late from my parent’s and we all went to bed, kind –of forgetting our tradition!
Connor got Noah a remote control helicopter and Noah got Connor walkie talkies and spy glasses. I love how Connor is more interested in watching Noah open the gift he got him than he is in his own gift! They enjoy buying for one another.
Limited edition DSI’s!
Noah and his new phiten necklace. Notice the hair horns.
Santa even came!
Santa doesn’t wrap presents in out house. I bet that makes things easier for Santa.
Both boys got hats in their stockings. Santa knows that Noah likes Under Armour and Connor was THRILLED when he saw so many Vikings wearing this very same hat on Tuesday night! He ran to get it and wore it the rest of the game while watching the screen for another siting of a player on the sideline wearing it.
We had a lot of fun playing with Noah’s new remote control toy. It’s always a crap-shoot buying this stuff. Most of the time it doesn’t work, or it’s way too hard for a kid maneuver, but not this one. It was easy to fly.
The plan was to have a steak dinner that night, but vertigo reared it’s ugly head in the afternoon and I spent a couple of hours in bed. We postponed the steak dinner until the following night.
Mike surprised me with a Nook under the tree! We don’t exchange Christmas gifts and I discovered this gift for me under the tree four days before Christmas. Needless to say my poor husband didn’t get a gift from me. He doesn’t care, but I wished I had noticed the gift sooner. I am excited to download some books once I have read the two I got as gifts from my mother-in-law. I am almost done with The Help and it’s such a great book. Vertigo slows me way down because I can’t read while I have it, otherwise it would be done. It’s a really good book.
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New Years Eve will be spent at our new neighbors with others from the hood! Should be a fun time. We usually see so little of each other in the winter so we are looking forward to seeing everyone. Plus, the kids can go back and forth from the party to home which will be nice.
We have been enjoying our lazy days of winter break. Kids have played a lot of video games, created and played numerous flag football games in the street, lunch with daddy, and mama has had a few play dates with her favorite friends. The boys have a sleep-over planned with Granny and Papa for Saturday so we will visit Mike’s friends this weekend and catch-up. Always good to see them.
The tree is down, decorations put away…..I guess 2011 can come any time! I made a promise to spend one day on work and I haven’t done it. With only three days left, it’s not looking good that I will keep that promise. I admit I am feeling a little guilty about this, but I am ready for the week back to work. I was just hoping to get a jump start on some upcoming things I am tackling for the first time this year.
Enjoy the weekend!
LB
2 comments:
Happy New Year Budach family! All the best is wished for you. See you next year!
sorry about hte vertigo but glad you were still able to enjoy the holiday. LOVE the pcitures of hte helicopter flying
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