Christmas Joy!!

Well Christmas went oh so not like I planned...

I woke up hours before present time and spent lots of alone time with the toilet. I got maybe a few hours of sleep before everyone woke to open presents. My plan was to shower and dress and look good for picture taking and help the girls open their gifts.

What really happened was me being so sick I sat across the room and took pictures when I could, handing the camera off to sweet fiance so I could go visit my new best friend. After hours of being so sick and trying to feel better with no relief, my guy took me to the clinic.

On Christmas Eve I would have thought nothing would be open, thank GOD walgreens was open. They said I have the flu, drink water and pedialite and rest. Also take this prescription all the way up to the North Oak store and get it filled for a gel to relieve the nausea in seconds.

Once again my plans get ruined, they are too busy to fill my prescription the way it was ordered, call the nurse from the other store, get a new form of the compund. (and noone wants to know what kind of medicine I had to take... YUCK

So I come home finally and sleep and sleep and sleep. My plans are ruined, I wanted so bad to see the kids enjoy their gifts, to play with the kids and their gifts. I wanted to actually get some family quality time with mom and dad and step mom and brothers and fiance and kids and sister... All I got was cuddle time and sleep time and a new best friend for the next couple days.

I was sick all day Christmas Eve and Christmas day. I managed to wake long enough to open presents Christmas day with fiance and then I slept off and on the rest of the day. I am not sure how many hours or days went by between the last thing I ate and the next thing I ate, but for once I was glad to be able to eat.

In the end I had a pretty good Christmas, it was my first Christmas to get presents from a guy I was with, my first Christmas to be engaged (first time ever being engaged). The kids were all happy with thier gifts, fiance was happy with his gifts. Brother managed to get a whole shopping trip out of me and walked away with 2 new outfits.

So there was my happy yet sad Christmas of 2008!!