FLUFF AND NOISE

Am I crazy, or does it seem like Christmas was ages ago? It's only been 4 days. Seems like forever ago doesn't it? All the shopping, wrapping, baking, cooking, visiting, church going, partying. Then more shopping, wrapping, baking, cooking, visiting, church going, partying. Then poof, December 25 comes and goes. We had a wonderful Christmas, a wonderful week really. Let's see if I can summarize:

Last Tuesday my friend Christina and her daughters came over to meet help me wrap and bake cookies. What can I say, I get by with a little help from my friends. The girls had been wanting to meet Colby for a long time and since they were all on break, seems like the perfect time. Pretty cool to have a friend who is willing to help me finishing wrapping my gifts when she wasn't even done wrapping her own. Then the nurse and I took Colby swimming. We were the ONLY ONES at the pool. It was awesome.

I worked Christmas Eve and that night, no nurse, which was fine with me. Colby and I just hung out. We read the Bible about the birth of Jesus and other Christmas books. I let him open a couple of his gifts. Christmas was laid back, just what I wanted. I wasn't kidding when I said I wanted us to spend Christmas in our pj's. I wore my new fluffy gray and purple plaid flannel jammies and Colby wore his lounge pants and Clark Griswold Christmas vacation t-shirt. My dad came over. We did gifts, then Dad and I made lunch. Fried fish, hush puppies, mac and cheese that my friend Joni made for us (I have the BEST friends), and apple crisp. I had asked Dad to bring vanilla ice cream for the apple crisp. Well, being a typical man, he waited until CHRISTMAS DAY to get the ice cream. He seemed surprise that the grocery stores were closed. Really, Dad?! But he did manage to bring ice cream. He brought 2 Good Humor ice cream sandwiches, and he said we could just scoop the ice cream out for the crisp. I had to laugh. Can't complain, we had vanilla ice cream!

Friday I worked. Came home and sorted laundry. Over the weekend I wanted to catch up on laundry, clean out the fridge and get caught up on sleep. I did all the above. Plus we had an extra surprise. Colby had some major constipation over the weekend. We were all on poop patrol around here! Not sure how this happened. It's been well over a year since Colby has had any trouble with this (post surgery ileus doesn't count.) But it did happen and he was miserable Saturday. I won't get into all the details, but the nurses and I were pulling out our bag of tricks to help Colby out. Enemas, prune juice, suppositories, bicycling his legs, rubbing his belly, heating pad on belly, sitting him up in his chair, whatever we could think of to, you know, get things going. Sunday was a little better and today he is feeling back to normal and the plumbing seems to be back in order, too. Thank goodness. Poor kid was so uncomfortable. Hated seeing him like that.

Saturday I made a big pot of veggie soup. Not to brag, but it's pretty dang good. Surprised my body hasn't gone into shock from the vegetables. Everything I've had this month has been loaded with butter, icing, sugar and/or cream cheese, fried, a carb or delicious and fattening. Time to get my flabby hiney in gear and get back to baked fish and oatmeal. Bleh.

I was talking to Colby over Christmas about how incredibly blessed we are. I said well kid, it's like this. We are surrounded by God's love. I see it each and every day. This winter we won't be hungry, cold or lonely. You are healthy. I am healthy. The family and friends that we love and care about are healthy, I believe, for the most part. We are surrounded by loving, caring, giving, thoughtful people who always help and support us when we need it. The rest, really, is just fluff and noise. I'm looking forward to spending the next couple of days on break with Colby. He has speech and swimming tomorrow. I hope on Wednesday we get to take him to Lights Under Louisville. Thursday will be another lazy day. What is it you're supposed to make for good luck on New Year's Day? Cabbage or some sort of beans? Can't remember. Better Google that. More soon.Time to get boy tucked in with some Harry Potter.