Laela has had a runny nose for a day or two, but she’s been a chipper little girl regardless of it. Yesterday evening, we put all of the kids down at the normal time, right around 7:00pm. Rowan fell asleep, but was in and out like crazy until about 8:30 when he seemed to break. When we went to him, he was snotty and dry coughing and a big sloppy sick mess.
After an incredibly interesting night, to say the least, I woke up with a sore throat and a slightly runny nose as well. Brady and Dekker are still in the clear, but as a family of five, we know how the cycle works. No one is safe.
Brady had a morning meeting, so he went to that on his own. Then he snagged some Tims for us, and dug our Christmas decorations out of the storage container. It was good to have him home and start doing the very beginning of Christmas decorating. Unfortunately, we discovered that we threw away the majority of our tree lights when we packed our decor up to put into the container. It makes sense. Most of the strands were pretty pathetic, and need to be replaced, but I wish I had remembered! Because of that, we couldn’t decorate our tree. But we did set up a cute little display that I started last year that we really like. Just some little mismatched trees on a ledge above our stairs. No big deal, but I like it anyway.
We didn’t accomplish too much on top of that. If you know me at all, you’ll know that, if I feel at all under the weather or strained in some way, I get chilled. I have been frozen for a good half day now, and I know I’m not the only one. Plus, we’ve all got to be ready for tomorrow! We’re going Christmas shopping tomorrow!!! Its going to be lots of fun, and LOTS of everything, haha! Going with our three kids will be an interesting dynamic, but I’m excited to give it a go anyway 🙂 This evening, Brady and I made a list of all of the places we need to hit, which ones we’ll rather order from, where we’ll go if we can’t find what we’re looking for at the first place, etc. We have our cash that we slowly save throughout the year so we don’t have to feel broke at Christmas, and I got it all organized and ready to go so we can hopefully pay for all of our Christmas gifts in cash! Something about that feels awesome 🙂 Though counting the nickles and dimes out makes me feel like an old lady 🙂 Its ok. Old ladies are onto something with that, I’m sure.
Hopefully the fam sleeps well and is all feeling well tomorrow! I feel so behind already with Christmas shopping, I’m determined that tomorrow will be a success!