The highlight of today was the evening. We originally had plans to go to church in the morning, but we decided yesterday not to go. Brady is booked so solidly until Christmas, and we will barely see each other. We opted to take our time this morning and do a few little things. We all slept in like crazy, had breakfast, and then headed to the city for a quick Walmart trip. We found most of what we were looking, and lost a boot 🙁 but it was nice to get out a bit and feel a bit more normal.
We spent the day with my parents at their place, and the kids were particularly thrilled to have the attention of their grandparents for an extended period of time. My mom helped me address some envelopes for our Christmas cards (my most dreaded job) and we chatted the afternoon away.
I will admit that today felt a bit huge for me. I couldn’t tell you why, and I will for the first and last time (hopefully) blame my crappy attitude on hormones, but I was struggling hard today. A combination of a hundred little things just brought me to tears finally about a half hour before we were supposed to attend the church Christmas party. My mom and my husband cared for me in my absurd state of emotional turmoil by holding me, fetching kleenex, and feeding me cinnamon rolls for supper. I recovered just in time to make it to the party, where Brady and I led everyone in a handful of carols, up in a hayloft on someone’s acreage. It looked like it had been a pretty lovely party. I wish we could have been there longer but today just wasn’t the day for it. Hopefully next year, it will just fall on an easier day for our family. It was a lovely setting, though, and it was really nice to see friends from church in such a different setting.
We went back to my parents afterwards, doddled a little bit more, and then left. The kids joined me on my emotional crazy train as soon as we got in the van, and then proceeded to sleep the entire drive home. We are all bushed, needless to say. But last night, I got in too late for a soak and I’m pretty determined to have one tonight. So I’m going to get on that here before it gets too late. Here’s hoping to a solid nights sleep and a better day for sanity tomorrow.