Zippidy doo dah I now have my laptop hooked up. Go me! I'm sitting on the couch with my computer (how cool is that?!) and Colby's nurse is in there getting him ready for bed. I'm switching the channels between CMA Country Christmas and Elf. Holy crap on a cracker, it's December! Only 24 days until Christmas, are you freaking kidding me? I've decided this year I'm giving hugs as gifts. I'm not stressing myself out. I don't do malls. Maybe on a Monday or a Tuesday during the day while Colby is at school. Maybe. First things first, need to get the tree and decorations up. Oh wait, better get these Thanksgiving decorations back in storage first.
Speaking of Thanksgiving, aka Turkey Day, ours was fabulous. Wednesday I went to my aunt's house and we spent the day cooking, and taste testing, and baking. Then Colby and I hosted on Turkey Day. We had 9 people crammed in this tiny apartment. Interesting. But we managed. I had a card table in one corner for drinks, another card table in another corner for dessert. Then I borrowed a 4-foot table for the end of my regular kitchen table, and there was enough room for all of us to eat together. The food was delicious, nothing was burnt and nothing was raw. Can't ask for more than that. We had sooooo many leftovers. I was shoving food out the door with whoever would take it. I used the last of the turkey today in a pot pie. Carrot cake is gone, too. The day was pretty laid back, but that's probably what I liked most about it. A nurse volunteered to come in and work some, 8AM to noon. I would never ask a nurse to work on a major holiday. What a blessing this was! She got Colby up and dressed while I finished up in the kitchen and dining room. So when our company got here I was able to visit instead of running around like crazy. It was very nice.
I was doing so well with eating healthy and losing some weight. Yeah well, that went to crap last week. Time to put down the fork and walk away. Need to get back to oatmeal and exercising, until Christmas gets closer anyways.
Colby is as cute and feisty as ever. He's been tearing up that eye gaze. Telling jokes, changing TV channels, doing anything but really communicating on it haha. The other night he told his nurse a joke, my favorite on his eye gaze: "what did the judge say when the skunk walked in the courtroom? Odor in the court." Then the next word he said was "enjoy." He's a mess. The other day he told his grandma and grandpa Kenny a joke: "what kind of apple is always in a bad mood? A crab apple." Then the next word he said was "laugh." I adore his sense of humor. All he goes through and he still tries to amuse others. What an amazing kid.
No school for Colby tomorrow. It's his therapy day. He'll start with speech at 10:30, then swimming at 1:00. Then a bath tomorrow night to wash all the salt off from the pool. I worked on the nursing schedule for the month and guess what? We have almost every shift covered. Actually I'll need to go back and look, do I dare say EVERY shift covered. That can't be right! That's never happened. We'll see how that all plays out. Never a dull moment with nursing that's for sure.
Okay, I'm going to call it a night. This CMA Christmas special is excellent. Want to watch some of that, then get my boy tucked in. I kind of took a "mental day" today. Didn't do anything except what absolutely had to be done. I needed that. Now it's time to get busy on a to-do list and started getting things done! Trees don't decorate themselves and cookies don't bake themselves, know what I mean? But I refuse to get bent out of shape. As the saying goes, I'm too blessed to be stressed!
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