December 20 - Right Before the Stomach Flu hit...

On the evening of December 20th, I was sitting here, catching up on my daily photos, fully planning on catching up to the actual day. I had literally just opened the photos from the 20th in Photoshop when I realized that my stomach was not just bloated still from lunch (and it's around 7:30 pm by now) but that it was nauseous. Badly so. And that maybe I hadn't been bloated. and maybe I hadn't eaten too much food at lunch as originally thought. and i was suddenly VERY glad, that I had not eaten dinner. So although I had planned on finishing up the photos and watching a Christmas movie, I ended up crawling into bed. The rest is history. The stomach flu had come, exactly one week after the kids had it. So I spent Friday in bed and took not ONE. Single. Photo. I missed the last day of school. I missed lunch out with the kids. We had to postpone our sleepover as well as our trip to the mall to see the Christmas decorations. And while I lay there in misery, everything turned into chaos...so when I woke up on Saturday, feeling better, though VERY weak, I had a huge mess greet me...

The good news is: although the stomach is still queasy now and then (and might be for the next week or two, if Miss G is any indication), my strength returned slowly throughout the day and we were able to go to the Mall, get our Coffee (Starubucks beans to brew for Christmas) as well as the tees for the kid's pj bottoms and we were even home by lunchtime!

Back to the 20th though! I am not going to pick out one photo at this point, there are only a few more days. So enjoy all the photos from that afternoon:

After school, after the doctor's check-up, and after christmas present shopping for each other: they got to watch a movie:

while Daddy did some last minute work:

(and I fell asleep on the couch - big indicator right there!)

Sparkle took a page out of Buddy's book and decorated with some snowflakes, though not nearly as many as Buddy...

And thanks to the amazing A-Team, I got more Christmas Cards this year than ever before. EVER.