Decorations

Christmas has come to our house!!! We started to decorate last weekend and I am so excited about it. I know that it may seem a tad bit early for some of you, which it is even for me, however I forgot to decorate for fall so I am just skipping over to what comes next.....CHRISTMAS!!!

I think that I really love decorating for Christmas because it used to be a huge thing for my family. At that time I hated it. And that's because my dad would go crazy with the lights every where. My poor sister and I had to spend what seemed like hours putting out the huge colored bulbs all over our yard with my dads help. On the trees, on the bushes, the little fence, the house and even off the stinking flag pole. I mean come on! No wonder why people would cut our lights....we were over the top (and not in a good way either). After the outside was done up we would start on our tree. I am not really sure if we had a real one or a fake one but we had colored bubbling lights on it. Every year we decorated the tree as a family. It was always loaded with the homemade Christmas ornaments and then the silk ribbon balls. And Mr. and Mrs. Clause sat below our tree. Oh how pretty it was, at least when I didn't know better.

Now that I have my own family, decorating for Christmas is such a joy. And this year it has been really great. Ike is able to help out a lot more than he was last year, and he loves it. Ike thinks that he is making Christmas when he decorates. He even gets his very own tree put up in his room. He is very proud of that tree. He is so sweet and cute.....to bad its not all the time :)

Random babbles

So all this week Seth and I have had the opportunity to spend every evening together. That is very rare for us since Seth usually works till 8:00pm every night. It has been so great to have him there in the evening to help me cook dinner and to help me with the boys. We were even able to have friends over for dinner one night and it not be just me! It was sooo great. Ike has also loved having his daddy around in the evenings to play with him and put him to bed. Ike loves having his daddy read him some books then put him to bed and pat his back. Then mommy gets to come up and sing songs with him (daddy doesn't do well with that part!) We all can't wait for the time we can be home almost every night together as a family. Hopefully soon, or at least when his coworker retires and Seth gets those hours!

Last night I worked the Switchboard of the hospital all by myself......AHHH! I was so nervous but I just prayed that God would help me thru it. And He sure did. It seemed that whenever I was getting sleepy He would send a person my way to chat with me so I would stay awake. I made sure to bring lots of different things to do; a book, magazines, Sudoku. It is rather quiet during the nights at the hospital. Or at least for me anyways, the ER is always loaded with drunks on the weekends. That does bring some entertainment at times.

I have been feeling kind of blah lately. I'm not really sure why. Maybe the weather maybe just because I have been thinking to much or maybe because I miss my best friend. Things have changed so much for us. I think that the biggest change for us is our friends or lack there of. We do have a few really true friends but the rest I can't say that about. It is ever so true that having kids will change EVERYTHING!! Understand I am ever so blessed to have my kids and would not change my situation for anything but things are hard at times. However lately I am feeling ignored and forgotten by those that claimed to be genuine friends. And yes I know that its not always fun to hang out with a family, but I am able (and need) to leave them at times for friendships. Maybe that isn't understood I dont' know. Then again maybe its not because we had kids that changed everything maybe there is something else going on that I am unaware of. Oh how I wish I knew. I am very thankful for the friends I do have, but I am greatly missing that close friend relationship I once had. Maybe I am just missing my sister, my best friend.

The Visitors and the COLD!

For Ike's birthday we had some visitors for the weekend. It was so great to have them all there. There was a total of 8 adults and 2 kids at our home that weekend. CRAZY!! My sister Melissa, her hubby to be Bobby, Jill and Adam all came from Michigan. They may not have enjoyed the cold that also joined us here in Minnesota for there stay but they all enjoyed my little family. However it did get cold fast here so I don't blame them for not liking it. I don't like the cold much either. Jill had the hardest time coping with the cold. Almost the whole time she was here, either out and about or in the house, she was wearing her coat. Little did she know that when she got back home to Michigan that it was going to be cold and snowy there. HA!

Here we all are surviving the cold on Garvin Heights for a picture
Me, Seth, Ike, Bobby, Mel, Quilon, Jill and Bobby

Two coats on and a baby in her lap.......Jill's way of trying to stay warm