CHRISTMAS, CHRISTMAS, CHRISTMAS - SO INTO IT THIS YEAR!!

We've been doing a bunch of Christmasy things around here the last few days. What the hell else are we going to do, it's CHRISTMASTIME!!! Shopping, done. Wrapping, 92.6% done. Baking, 95.8% done. If you're jealous, you should be, ha-ha. Actually I had to get my rear in gear because I'm working the next 3 days. My BFF came over Monday and helped me knock out the baking. We made peanut butter fudge, Oreo balls (still have a learning curve with those; it was an adventure), almond bark candy and some yummy Chex stuff with M&M's, peanuts, pretzels and melted white chocolate. There is nothing I'd rather be doing at Christmas than making goodies and no one I'd rather be doing it with than her! Colby had a very special visitor Tuesday night, Santa Claus! Colby's afternoon bus driver's husband dresses up as Santa every year, and they came over to see us. What a kind, thoughtful thing to do! We are truly blessed that's for sure.  

Colby, the night nurse and I went to Lights Under Louisville tonight. It was so neat! I've never taken Colby before, which is sad because it's perfect for him. You drive your car through this ginormous cavern and they have fantastic light displays. Over 2,000,000 lights with multiple themes, and they have Christmas music playing throughout. It was beautiful! Kind of expensive, $25/carload. Luckily we received a free admission coupon at the Hosparus party. Will definitely go back next year though.

Tomorrow Colby is having a pajama party at school. They're also watching Polar Express, which he hates BTW, and having a little gift exchange with classmates. Just one more day, then he's on break for 2 weeks. I know he's excited. He was, let's just say, less than overly excited to do schoolwork this week.

I have yet another "you suck" story about Apria, but this time it involves their enteral department. Never had any trouble with them until this month. Should've known it was too good to be true. Ordered Colby's feeding supplies on December 6th, they were to be shipped on the 12th. Still didn't have them by the 16th and we were completely out of Neocate Jr! Had to borrow some from another SMA family. Called Apria, got the complete run around. They finally agreed we should be getting the supplies. Yeah, no shit peeps. So they overnighted us 3 cans, one of which busted open and spilled everywhere. OMG. Then they sent us via ground shipping the rest of the Neocate, or so I thought. Sent 1 box (4 cans) and we were supposed to receive 3 boxes (12 cans). So I get on the phone this afternoon and say hey, yo, where is the rest of our Neocate, fools? The customer service rep says well, according to this, it was delivered today and dropped off at your front door. Crickets on my end. I was like, ummmm, well, let me check. Sure enough, there it was, 2 boxes of Neocate right outside the door. I felt just slightly on the stupid side. But if they weren't stupid and had shipped everything when they should have, none of this would have happened, right? Right.     

RIP hair dryer. We've been together many years, and I'll always remember all the times you dried my hair in a safe and timely manner. However, your orange, burning coils and your burning smell stinking up the bathroom tell me you no longer wish to continue this relationship. It's not so much me as it is you. No worries, you've been quickly replaced. Girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.

Okay everyone, this blog is getting rather long. Plus I need to tuck Mr. Colby in bed, so I'll wrap up for now.