Category: Family Matters

So I feel like I can start the new year now, just one week behind the rest of the world.

I had my polyps (turns out, there was a trio living quite happily down there) removed yesterday, no problem. I was a little woozy today (not at all yesterday), but it’s passing. L got some steroids yesterday, and for the first time in almost three weeks he seems more like himself. The swelling isn’t so bad, the chills are gone, and he has an appt with a specialist in 10 days. If nothing else, we can confirm if it was a weirdo virus or wacky disease or whatever. Thankfully, my fantastic mom was able to come down and take care of all three of us (monitor me and L, and chase after baby). I seriously don’t know what we would have done without her!

Today is my last week day of winter break, and while I’m sad, in a way, I’m also looking forward (somewhat) to diving back into the drama on Monday. Ok, not the drama part. But the teaching part, the part where I’m with the children? I’m looking forward to that. And that’s a good sign!

Today (before the woozy-ness set in) we went to story hour at the library, and played with other babies, which was fun. M was the oldest one there by about 3 months, 10 lbs and 4 inches. Seriously, she looked like a kindergartener next to these petite bebes. But they all played very well, and while it didn’t tire her out enough to really nap today (gasp!), she was hungry for a HUGE lunch.

We rang in the New Year with friends this year, at a family-friendly slumber party. M wasn’t awake for the 12 o’clock cheer, instead, she waited til 5:30am to greet 2007. Which would have been fine, had I not been consuming champange cocktails for the 5 hours leading up to the magic hour, had L not gotten a 2 am call from work (he’s on-call this week), had we not been in a house with 2 others families who were sound asleep.

Desperate times call for desperate measures….so I took her home to sleep some more. We napped from 7:30am-10am and made it back to the party in time for New Year’s cinnamon rolls and coffee.

So far, 2007 appears to be just a continuation of 2006–more snafus at work (hard to imagine since it’s winter break, but oh-so-true), continuing to seek medical care for myself and my polyp, as well as L and his odd affliction. My hope is that we’ll get the majority of these things resolved in the next week or two (new insurance deductible, but also new flexible spending money), and then really start the new year. All it will take is a simple key stroke when I am ready.

We had a very quiet Christmas this year, after much consideration, we didn’t travel to see family (first time EVER we haven’t gone away for Christmas). L is basically better–instead of all of his joints hurting, he’s down to one. But he still spent most of the day resting, which would have tricky had we decided to amke our holiday “rounds”. So instead, we stayed home and went to Mass here on Christmas morning, which was really nice! It was the first time we’ve ever been to our church Christmas day–usually we don’t see it decorated until we return around New Year’s, so it was a treat to see all the decorations and some of the families we know on Christmas day.

M enjoyed opening her presents, we watched movies, ate snack food and laid low. Not a bad way to spend Christmas at all.

Hope everyone had a good holiday!!