The Holidays

Ah the holidays....nothing quite captures the magic and joy that comes around Christmas. Going out and getting gifts for your kids and your other family members. Sending out xmas cards to friends and family. baking cookies and cakes for everyone to get fat on. cooking the traditional turkey and ham feast. what a wonderful time to get a freakin sinus infection.ugh! two days before i am off for a week with the family and holiday cheer, i get sick and get a sinus infection. first it starts out as a cold and festers into a full blown infecting sinus infection.yuck!so the Thursday before xmas, i started out with a cold, not too thrilling but not too bad either.by the time Saturday rolled around, it was a full blown sinus infection.ewww!! could barely talk much less breathe.ugh!so come Sunday, as soon as i could move my body without hurting, i took myself to the walk in clinic for my dr's office.the dr tried to tell me that i just had a real bad cold but would go ahead and write me a script for an antibiotic in case it does not clear up by xmas. oh boy. i think i gave it a day before i tore into the zpack, and started the wonder drug. after about 2 days, i started feeling alot better, could have had something to do with the ungodly stuff i was coughing up.ick! it was totally gross. and god knows i did not have time to be sick, i had cleaning to do, i had cooking to do, i had children to harass, and i had groceries to buy because my uncle was coming to visit for xmas. i did not have time to sick at all!so i was froggy all holiday and i managed to make god knows how many dozens of cookies, of which was eaten more than once.i had two separate cooking times for cookies, because the first batch went fast.zip zong zip.....somebody had some serious sugar intake!then came the task of wrapping the gifts. while the stack of gifts this year was much smaller compared to previous years, it still took me until 4am to wrap them. i started around midnight on Christmas eve and it continued for 4 hours and that was with help! jeez, i really have to start wrapping them earlier in the month or heck even earlier in the year. i am one of those types that sees something on sale and thinks that would be great for xmas and just stockpiles everything, and gets whatever is still needed in December. so again as in year's past, it took forever to to wrap everything. and i did not even wrap the 3 stuffed animals that my daughter received for xmas. she still loves winnie the pooh at 11 yrs old.LOL, that cracks me up!!and i had my elf helper wrap the guitar hero that i got my son for xmas. he was just beside himself that he actually received that. that has kept him busy for days now. and my daughter with all her ds games, is huddled on the couch or wrapped up in her blankie in a corner in the room silently playing her games. ahhh the cool quiet buzzing of technology!