CHRISTMAS IS OVER? NOPE, NOT AROUND HERE

It's been busy around here. Busy but in a good way, so here's the poop:

Thursday I worked. I thought hospitals were supposed to be slow around the holidays?! I was swamped and still left a mess for the boss when she came back the next day. What up with that? Then Thursday night met some friends at Wick's for pizza and beer. Yum and double yum. Unfortunately our waitress was horrible. Not very friendly to begin with, along with hardly checking on us to see if we needed anything, AND it took forever to get our food. Seriously, don't make me wait on my food, people. I can be this critical because after all, I am a former bartender and waitress. At a pizza place, too! But as always the pizza was delicious. Wick's is one of my favs. And of course spending time with my gal pals was the whole reason we met, so it was all good.

Friday was my only day to sleep in for the whole week. Either we had Christmas goings-on or I had to work. Colby Michael was up at 4-freaking-15AM, just jabbering away. You know how you're not sure if you're awake or dreaming? It took me a while to figure out he was in there awake and wanting my attention. So I drag my sleepy butt out of bed and go check on him. Absolutely NOTHING was wrong. I tried all my tricks. Did he need trach suctioning? No. A dry slobber rag? No. Were his feet cold? No. Feet hot? No. Dirty brief? No. Needed to be repositioned or his head turned the other way? No. Feeding come undone and leaking on the bed? No. He just wanted to say hey mama, I'm up, and you should get up, too. Ugh. I was like, look kid, shut your pie hole and go back to sleep. It's not time to get up yet. He finally drifted off to sleep after 5:00. It was all we could do to keep him awake during the day. I was telling him, oh no you don't. No naps for you Mr. 5-freaking-15 AM Jabber Jaws. Tough it out.

Yesterday we spent the day with my brother, sister-in-law, niece and nephew. The other niece was home sick in bed with a cold. (Sad face.) Dad came over and picked up Colby and me and we drove to Madison, Indiana to meet the fam. That's about halfway for both of us. We met at Clifty Falls Inn and had lunch. They had a sitting room with a beautiful Christmas tree, fire place, couch and chairs. We hung out in there so Colby could lie down. We exchanged gifts, visited. It was very nice. Wonderful actually. Colby had an UNEVENTFUL day. No chokes. No tears. He was the bestest, sweetest boy. Of course he was good, he got to open more presents! We got home and Colby and I watched the UK/U of L basketball game, which totally sucked, and then the U of L/Miami bowl game, which totally rocked. Yeah, I won't be programming any of the words I used during the basketball game on Colby's eye gaze!     

Today I tried to get some things caught up around here. I worked 3 hours doing housework, but you sure can't tell it. On half of the kitchen table are clean clothes needing to be put away. On the other half is a myriad of things, bows, bags, tape, Colby's toys, Pampered Chef boxes, Christmas items needing to be packed away, etc. There is Christmas crap everywhere around here, and I don't even want to talk about the mountain of mail that has evolved over the last couple of weeks. Oh, and Colby's daddy brought 2 more gifts from his side of the family. How many presents has this kid opened since December 3rd? Not sure, many, I've lost count. That child has no idea how loved and supported he is. Enjoyed watching football today also. Lots of good games. Always good when my Colts win. On to the playoffs! Yippee skippy!

I hear a jabbering kid. Either his Spongebob DVD is done or he just wants his mama. Yeah, we all know which one it is. Later, taters. I also have laundry calling to be put away.