Thursday, December 11, 2014

READY OR NOT, CHRISTMAS SEASON IS DEFINITELY HERE - eek and yeegads!!

Remember how in my last blog I said I wasn't going to get stressed about the holidays? Hahahaha, sometimes I crack myself up. We should've known better than that, right? Actually I'm not too bad. Took me a couple of days to track down our Christmas tree and decorations. Don't ask. Then this past Sunday, got the pre-lit tree in the stand and viola, not all the lights work. Boogers. Big chunky boogers. None of the top section lights work and there is half a row not working around the bottom. No problem, I thought. I'll just go ghetto this year and get two strands of lights and lay them over the existing, non-working lights. Went to Target Monday night, got lights. Tonight worked on fluffing the branches and putting on the lights, except I bought the wrong lights. Need clear lights with green wire, I bought clear lights with white wire. Trip #2 to Target will take place tomorrow night.

Colby has had a busy week. Monday at school they had a petting zoo set up in the gym. He got to pet/see turkeys, chicks, piglets, a calf and I don't even know what else. Tuesday he had speech therapy. His speech therapist had the most brilliant idea. They make these really cool LED lights (very expensive LED lights) that use a remote control to change the mode for how the lights change. Well, you can program a remote control into Colby's eye gaze. Somehow it picks up the infrared. That's how it's possible for Colby to use his eye gaze to turn on the TV, change channels, adjust the volume, etc. So we were going to program the eye gaze so that Colby could turn the super cool LED lights on and he could use his eyes to change the modes. Didn't work. We couldn't get the eye gaze to pick up the signal on the lights' remote control. Such a bummer. Those will also be returned to Target tomorrow night. I'll get some regular Christmas lights and we'll hook them up through his Powerlink so he can use a switch to turn them on and off. It's called Plan B.

Tuesday afternoon we took Colby swimming. Once we got home, we had less than 2 hours to do Colby's afternoon cough treatment, get him changed, get me changed, load up the van again, and get to the annual Hosparus Christmas party. What a wonderful, special, fantastic, beautiful party this is for Colby. And me, too! Colby got to see Santa and get his picture taken with him. Then they had arts and crafts. Colby chose to decorate a stocking. We sang Christmas carols. I asked him 3 times if he wanted to get his face painted, and 3 times he told me no. Guess he's way too cool/old for that now. Then we ate and after that, gift time! And the gifts, oh my! The parents fill out a wish list for their kid, and I swear Colby got almost every single gift idea on that list. Each child there gets a giant bag full of wrapped presents. Not that it's all about the gifts, but wow, it sure helps this mama out when he gets so much stuff at this party. And the decorations this year were over-the-top fabulous/beautiful. It was a wonderful time. Colby's eyes were dancing around and looking everywhere, and he was a total jabber butt. I know he had a good time. Seemed like everyone had a good time. If that party doesn't put the holiday spirit in you, then you have a cold heart of stone.

I started my holiday baking yesterday. Made peanut butter fudge, snickerdoodles, 3 flavors of Oreo balls and homemade turtles. Can you say yummy yummy in my tummy! I must've eaten over 10,000 calories yesterday sampling all the goodies. Today they are out the door! Gave it all out for Christmas presents. Trying to get a jump on gift giving, as next week is going to be very busy for me. Super Mama's my name, time management's my game. Just sayin'

I'm working tomorrow. Colby is going to school. He'll have to miss 3 days next week, then go to school Thursday and Friday, then off 2 weeks for Christmas break. And of course going to Target tomorrow night to do the LED light return and white wire/green wire light exchange. Giant pain in the buttocks. Next year, when we have a house, I'm getting a new tree. As big of a tree that will go in the living room. And it's going to rotate I've been wanting a rotating Christmas tree for years. Colby and I will both love it.

There you have it, a blog update. I know it's been over a week. Time just slips away sometimes. I'll post some pics soon. There is this one photo of Colby with Santa that will melt your heart. Also got Colby's school pictures back. They are really good this year. Kid was actually looking at the camera! And if and when we ever get the lights working and decorations on our tree, I'll post a pic of that, too. Bye for now.

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