Whew, the month of December has been a roller coaster! Lydia has been sick, Joey has been sick, I had somehow been spared only to come down with a stomach bug last week THEN get the family cold. Dempsey is coughing too, so I think he and I are in it together. We seem to have something on the schedule every day this month too, so there’s really no “good time” to be sick. We press on! This weekend, we had our company holiday party, a trip to visit Santa, an Avs game for the boys and Lydia’s birthday party. My girl will be two on Wednesday, I cannot believe it!!!!

I worked on Friday, then took my girl to her appointment with the allergist and she did so good! They re-tested all of the nuts, dairy, egg and sesame since she’s twice eaten hummus and gotten swollen lips and sure enough, she’s got a sesame allergy. The good news is, the doctor gave us the go ahead to schedule food challenges for dairy and egg, so fingers crossed! Grandma Lori took the kids for a sleepover because we had our company holiday party that night. We did indoor putt putt and man was I bad but it was fun anyway. I was so excited to just go home and go to bed though 😂

Joey and I were slow moving on Saturday morning (I didn’t even have a single drink the night before 😅) but we finally got up and moving around and I started a couple of the dishes I was making for Lydi’s birthday party before meeting Lori and the kids over at Edgewater to see Santa. Dempsey had been telling us for weeks that he didn’t want to see him because he was “scared he might cry” 🥺 We did the best we could. We got both kids home and down for a nap?! We have not gotten Dempsey to take a nap at home in almost a year, so that was a miracle, but he and Joey were going to have a late night so it seemed essential for him to rest. When the kids got up, we started party decorations and then the boys headed out for dinner and the Avs game and Lydia and I just had a low-key night of dinner ON the table 🤷‍♀️, the end of The Grinch/beginning of Sing and bedtime for my girl. She made sure both our faces were moisturized beforehand 😂 Afterward, I watched Lady Bird and I just love that movie so much. I also got some photo updates from the boys and it looked like they were having a great time. I waited up for them, read to Dempsey and then we all went to bed.

Party Day! The kids slept in till 7:30, if you can believe it! Which meant we got a later start than we probably should’ve — didn’t quite have time for that “good sweep and vacuum” I had planned to do 😅😬 But we did get the casseroles baked, the decorations up and the kids dressed, so I’ll call it a success. I think it was a great time! Our girl got so many good gifts, everyone knows her so well. She also didn’t want to share ANY of those gifts 😬😬 My mom made red velvet cupcakes for everyone and turns out Lydi is a pro at blowing out candles, who knew! My sis and Wayne stuck around for a bit to help clean up and entertain Dempsey, which was so nice and after they left, I went upstairs to lay down and that was REAL NICE. The rest of the day was spent playing, tidying, finishing laundry and making dinner. I think we were all more than ready for bed that night!

It’s another busy week over here, but I’m going to try to make rest a priority, so I hope you all do too 🤍