at this very minute we are supposed to be doing the 2 hour journey to my sister-in-laws house, where the whole family is waiting for us to celebrate Christmas with them. The kids have been excited for weeks about getting together (there are 5 cousins). Plans have been made and menus set for dinner out tonight and tomorrow is going to be a big pot luck lunch. The problem is, husband has been getting progressively sicker as the week has gone on and today he's woken up with all out flu. Basically, at the moment, he's not up to travelling, even for 2 hours and there's a chance that he won't be able to travel at all before Christmas. I'm terribly upset, for a number of reasons. For one thing, this will be the first Christmas we have spent with husbands family for about 10 years because obviously while we were living in Canada it just wasn't possible. G has been so excited about staying with her cousins and opening her presents there and I don't even know how I'm going to tell her if we aren't going. The third issue is food - basically we have none at home (we were providing all the drinks for tonight and tomorrow rather than bringing food) and very little time to get any if we are staying at home. It's basically going to be the most miserable christmas ever and I feel so bad for G and obviously I feel bad for husband too. I'm just hoping against hope that when he wakes from his nap he feels at least a little better.
9:08 a.m. - December 24, 2010
at this very minute we are supposed to be doing the 2 hour journey to my sister-in-laws house, where the whole family is waiting for us to celebrate Christmas with them. The kids have been excited for weeks about getting together (there are 5 cousins). Plans have been made and menus set for dinner out tonight and tomorrow is going to be a big pot luck lunch. The problem is, husband has been getting progressively sicker as the week has gone on and today he's woken up with all out flu. Basically, at the moment, he's not up to travelling, even for 2 hours and there's a chance that he won't be able to travel at all before Christmas. I'm terribly upset, for a number of reasons. For one thing, this will be the first Christmas we have spent with husbands family for about 10 years because obviously while we were living in Canada it just wasn't possible. G has been so excited about staying with her cousins and opening her presents there and I don't even know how I'm going to tell her if we aren't going. The third issue is food - basically we have none at home (we were providing all the drinks for tonight and tomorrow rather than bringing food) and very little time to get any if we are staying at home. It's basically going to be the most miserable christmas ever and I feel so bad for G and obviously I feel bad for husband too. I'm just hoping against hope that when he wakes from his nap he feels at least a little better.
9:08 a.m. - December 24, 2010
the child is addicted to ice age (parts one, two and three although three is the current favourite). i realise that it could be much much worse - she could be begging to watch some pinky princess girly crap which would drive me totally insane. talking of which, after considering the gifts we have bought the kid for christmas we realised that nothing was remotely feminine (ok the drum kit is pink but the rest of the stuff is lego and trains, some playdoh and jigsaws) so we have caved and bought her the most god awful pink handbag with a bevy of disney princesses on the front. she loved it in the store and who are we to deny our child one item of pure tat. I think we might say that that gift is from father christmas - yeah, that works for me. ps did i mention that i don't do dolls. i hate them. luckily for the kid, grandma bought her one.
5:12 p.m. - December 20, 2010
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