Christmas 2006

We decided to stay local this year and celebrate Christmas close to home. (Besides, even if we did want to travel, the midwives at AABC really do not want any of their moms to travel farther than an hour away driving at all during the third trimester, so even if we weren’t just being selfish, I have the support of the midwives to stay close to home and the birthing center. Pretty soon I won’t be able to drive even an hour away.) David played in the two morning Christmas Eve services at church while James and I slept in and all three of us went to the first evening service together. Our church does not provide childcare for their Christmas Eve services so the whole family sat in the sanctuary for the service. James did pretty well, but we were thankful that we accidentally had a pacifier in the diaper bag left over from some trip to grandmas or another. It’s amazing how much less attention you can pay to the actual service with a demanding 17 month old in your presence.

Christmas morning, we opened the gifts from Grandma and Grandpa Barnes and played in the little tent and on the table for a little while before heading up to Grandma and Grandpa K’s house. There weren’t an overabundance of gifts, but we all ended up getting spoiled and surprised and even shocked at the presents. James wanted to unwrap everyone’s gifts. He was really into the tearing off paper this year.

We’re home now and David is sick, just like the last break school had. BUT, he was smart and made a doctors appointment at the first opportunity he had so he immediately started medicine for the sinus infection and tonsillitis. In other somewhat tragic news (well, not really, it just adds an expense we’d rather not have to fork up the cash for) I dropped my WACOM pen in the cat’s water and it only works eraser-side down now which means I won’t be photoshopping anything anytime soon since photoshop is smart enough to tell the difference between the pen side and the eraser side and it disables my access to all the different tools in the tool palate and only lets me “erase.” I didn’t think a replacement pen would cost much, but golly-bob-howdy those things are expensive!

UPDATE: it must have dried out – the WACOM pen is working again! I was able to make the christmas collage in photoshop without the frustration of using a mouse!