I look at these pictures of New Years and kinda want to just laugh. This is the calm before the storm. New Years Eve was the night my ear trouble began. My aches and chills and low grade fever started this night. Me, stupidly, as previously mentioned....assumed it was all part of my cold. HAHAHA!! Yep, it wasn't. Boy if I had had any idea what I was in for the coming days......oh boy. 2014 was off to one heck of a start.
Earlier in the day, we were all kind of in moods. Pretty sure Drake was the only happy one of the day. Linc was still sick. Carson was just ornery. I was getting all achy and feeling like crap and thiago and I both were just frusterated that we had spent so much of our Christmas Vacation with one of us being sick. We had both kinda just had it. Linc's fever was not going away, so Thiago ended up taking him into Wee Care while I stayed home with the other two. Sure enough, ear infection for Linc. Wish I had taken myself in. Would have prevented the eardrum rupturing. Oh well. We got Linc going on his antibiotics and got some Motrin in him and he cheered up instantly.
Once Lincoln boy started feeling better, everyone else got in better moods. Thiago and Carson perked up. I still felt like crap, but you know moms...we just put on our happy face and keep going. Didn't want it ruining our night. So I took some alkaseltzer cold and hoped for the best.
We always just go over to my mother in laws for dinner and games and such. I made my usual. Bacon and brown sugar wrapped lil smolkies.
My cute boy. Just waiting. In his cute, red little skinny jeans. Can't stand his cuteness in those.
Carson. He spent every waking hour of his Christmas break sitting at this table. The kid got like 6 new Lego sets for Christmas. 3 of them being quite large. He had them all put together by the next afternoon. Linc also got about 3 sets. I had Lego's covering this black table for like 2 weeks, until I finally decided to clear my house of Christmas. Yeah in between playing for the holidays and then my sickness it took me like 2 weeks to finally take down all my decorations and to get their new toys organized and put away.
Drake bug got tired of waiting to go to Vovo's. Took a late afternoon snooze.
Went over to Cano's around 7:00. Ash, Souli and the kids came to. We snacked on chips and salsa and guac and the lil smolkies and played some games with the little ones while we waited on dinner.
It was such a yummy meal. To bad I didn't really enjoy it. That week and a half that I was so sick, completely killed my appetite. Nothing tasted good. I would start eating and then stop two seconds later cause it just tasted BLAH to me. Especially the days after my eardrum burst. I lost 6 pounds in like a weeks time. Got better and quickly put it back on. But I'm telling ya friends, you want to lose 5 pounds....burst your eardrum.
After dinner, we played more games. Disney headbands. They love this one.
Around 11:00 pm we brought out all the noisemakers. Children and (Thiago) go a little crazy with them. Knew we didn't want to listen to them ALL night. And yeah, that did go crazy. Poor baby Boston. And the poor dogs. Very loud.
I look quite strange in this picture, but Lincoln boy is cute.
And Happy New Year!!
Always so bittersweet to me as another year comes to an end. Especially as my boys are getting older. Can't believe I am entering this new stage of motherhood where they aren't quite so dependent on me. I'm not gonna lie. I'm struggling. Want them to stay little. Every year that passes and they get older.....breaks my heart a little bit. Looking back though, 2013 was a good year for us. Sure we had some bumps along the way, but my goodness we had some good times. I always wonder where life will find us at this time next year. What joys will we have seen, what heartache and stress will we go through. I know there will be the good mixed in with the bad. There always is. And I'm grateful for that, the bad is what makes the good so much sweeter. Mean so much more. Wherever this next year takes us, I'm just grateful to know I have the people I love standing next to me. They make it all so beautiful. Every day that much better.
So here we go 2014. Lets hope you are better than the first couple of weeks have been.
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