Another year and another Christmas has come and gone. It truly is amazing as you get older, time seems to go flying by. I held my son in my arms yesterday while playing with him and told him to "stop growing up". Picked him up and held him like a baby and said "I used to do this when you would cry for 8 hours straight" (acid reflux baby). He just giggled. I wish I could freeze time. As a child, all you want to do is hurry your life up, I want to turn 13 to be a teenager, I want to be 16 so I can drive, I want to turn 21 so I can get into the bars legally....then once you hit 25, I don't want to turn 30, or 40, etc. All I wanted to do when I was younger was be an attorney, get married and have kids. I didn't become a lawyer (by choice, but I am in the same profession), I got married and have two beautiful kids. My life is a success. I am blessed in so many ways.
My sister was in town for the weekend and its always so good to have her home. She lives out of state so I get to only see her a few times a year. However this past year with all of Zoe's hospital stays she has flown in to be with us and her. We were able to meet her new boyfriend over the weekend. I haven't seen my sister this happy in a very long time.
On Saturday I hosted Christmas with my sister, her boyfriend, my step-sister, her boyfriend, and then with "Grandma and Grandpa". The kids had a blast as we don't get to see my parents that much as they also live out of town. We had Sunday to re-coop and just veg before the hustle and bustle of the holiday. Christmas Eve is always the busiest for us. I have a small family, however I married into a gigantic family who are so amazing. Christmas Eve we headed to my Aunt's to celebrate Christmas and then we all headed over to her Church for Mass. I'm so glad we went to Church this year. We needed too after this year. The 10 of us sat in the pews, Zoe was held by my sister and to keep her busy, Blake put on the pictures. Well Zoe knows how to scroll through photos. As the pastor was saying "lets bow our heads and thank God for whatever you would like for this past year", Zoe stopped on her photo when she was hooked up to all these wires. It was almost like God was telling me, this beautiful girl sitting next to you is here, and will be here. Yes, tears were flowing and I couldn't stop. Mike heard me sniffling and grabbed my hand. Coincidental that she so happened to get to her surgery pictures? Maybe. But I think otherwise.
After Mass we rushed to my in laws to open presents with one of my husband's aunt's. Then headed over to my mother in law's side of the family. 20 or so relatives finally got to meet Zoe. She couldn't be around family at Easter and we haven't had the opportunity to meet up again until now. It was so nice having them finally meet their great neice or cousin!
Christmas day yesterday, I will never forget. This was the first year Zander really "got it". Shelf on the Elf worked (well for most of the time) and he knew he flew home to the North Pole each night. Zoe got up earlier than Zander yesterday, saw the presents and went right to the tree and tried to rip it open. We had to get Zander up. It took him a good 10-15 minutes to actually get up. Once he creeped out (thanks mom for the video camera...that moment will never be forgotten), and saw the tree with all presents, his expression was priceless. Santa was great to the kids and great to mom and dad! My mom and sister and us headed over to my inlaws to have Christmas dinner there. I'm very fortunate that my family gets along so well with my inlaws. Makes holidays and birthday parties easy and enjoyable!:)
I told Mike on Christmas Eve "you know Zoe is going to be sick after Christmas due to all the family we've visited and just not napping on her normal schedule". He replied "I know". Well this morning she puked and is a snotty mess. So far no fever, but its a PJ day for the kids and Mike. We're cleaning out our filters (although we just did), picking up an additional air purifier, and going to attempt to put our Christmas decor away today so I can really dust and clean again. Hoping to have the illness leave our family...finally. I just don't want to spend any more time in the hospital. When we rush her to the ER with a fever they have to poke and prod her for everything to rule out everything. That's why I get petrified to go back to Children's. You don't to see your child look at you with sad eyes and just scream so they team of doctors can rule out this or that. We were told not to keep her in a bubble so she can start building up some immunities even if her spleens don't work. Well it seems as if she can't break out of this cold since October. I know the illness is going around everyone's family. I just get a little bit more scared when its active in my household. I spent NYE in the hospital last year for preterm labor, I just would like to ring in the new year with my sweet family and some of our closest friends! So to Zoe's cold...."GO AWAY".
I hope Santa was great to all of you and you enjoyed all your family time!
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