Happy New Year

This is a post born out of a necessity to distract. A nagging cough is keeping me awake, and I decided it was time to move myself out of bed and onto something more productive than cough out both lungs tonight. So, here i am, sucking on my wonderful 'breezers-halls', and tucked into my cozy housecoat, and my fluffy blanket from my mom, in front of the main computer in the house. In the dark.
Gonna unload a bit.......stupid flu has hit our house. I guess thats what happens when you work in a germ loaded enironment, day after day, and you mutate what you work with and around. Bring it home to share with your family. Awesome. The head cold/sore throat/fever/chest cold viral influenza is definitely hitting hard this Christmas season. The surrounding communities are all struggling with this strain. And I managed to pick it up. Worked right thru Christmas tho, cuz who else will work. And Kyle started up with it on Christmas Day. Del is sporting some form of it as well. Fortunately, so far Jayde is winning, and hopefully that continues! Of course, my sore throat turned into a laryngitis, and my low, sexy, voice is here, competing with the non present voice. LOL! People love hearing my voice on the phone! (Rated material, I know!)
What else can I say?? Christmas was wonderful! I worked nights from Christmas Eve, Christmas night, and Boxing night. We celebrated at home on the 23rd. Christmas Day I slept till noon, and we had a wonderful afternoon playing Settlers of Cataan-an awesome boardgame you need more than half an hour to play! On Boxing day, I slept till noon, and then we were off to Dels parents to celebrate with the family there. Wonderful food, and games during the afternoon-and Del delivered me home early to go to work. On the 27th, we had invited some of Dels family over to celebrate. This is an annual tradition where we've invited some of his brothers, with their families, to spend an evening of food, presents, and games. This little tradition has evolved from a couple bachelor brothers to a lively group of men with awesome wives, and children! We've moved onto pulling names for tickets, and dividing up food duty. What a truly wonderful time we had. Awesome supper, great gifts, and a rousing game of Phase 10 for the adults, and the kids played playstation games, and movies, of course! I have to mention that I did win eventually, and I'm sure its the first time ever that I've won Phase 10 in that family!!! They are a competitive group that challenges everyone to rise to the occasion, and usually I'm the one with the most points. The aim of the game is to finish your sets with the least amount of points. Finally, I actually finished those sets!! First! Just barely!! Yesterday, Del was back at work, and the boys and I cleaned up at home. Cleaned up dishes from the night before, laundry, put away the tree, and stuff like that! Jayde had hockey practice once again last night, and Kyle has a friend over. Poor Jayde came home with a strained back issue. Advil & ice, massage and heat are in the works. Nothing he can't handle again.
Tomorrow, I've enlisted Jayde to help me haul garbage. I'm sure we are going to fill the box of the half ton with all the garbage of the last few weeks! It always amazes me how much garbage accumulates in such a short time!
Weatherwise, today was beautiful! Jayde shoveled the snow off the deck, and the sun melted away the little bit on the bottom. 0 degrees and sunshine! what a treat! Just read that a storm system is headed our way-so grateful we had the awesome temps this last week!
Oh, ya, I should mention my extended family is meeting this saturday, at Michelle's house. She bought herself a house, and moved in last week. She mentioned she would gladly host this event, and she won the lottery! She cleans, and I cook!!! We all win!! Food duty is divided up and everyone knows whats coming!!
Enough of this day to day event stuff. gonna attempt the bed again shortly!

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

Here we are-Christmas Eve/Christmas morning. And lucky me, its my turn to work. At my workplace, we alternate working Christmas. So, I'm working Christmas this year, and off for New Years. Next year, will be my turn to have Christmas off and work New Years. Yup, thats how it is when you choose my profession. Work the holidays, weekends, nights, and all that good fun stuff. It's what you sign on for, when you become a regular ward nurse. And that's what my husband and kids are used to. Versatility. And when I work Christmas, we celebrate before I start my shifts. Just doesn't seem fair to make the kids wait till after my shifts are done, and doesn't feel right to fit in between shifts. So, this year 'Christmas' was yesterday, the 23rd, at our house. The boys and I did home stuff in the morning, like cleaning, cooking, and making lots of meatballs for the functions this next week. Then, Del came home early, and we played games, and had an early supper. After supper, we did our gift exchanges, and of course, played around with all the new 'toys'. Had a wonderful time together!! Today was relaxing at home in preparation for my 3 nights of Christmas shifts. My extra special bonus is, when I get to work, I'm working with family. Michelle and I signed on to work nights together. We figured if we're working Christmas, we might as well be together-and we are! So far so good.........

Wishing all a wonderful weekend!!! Merry Christmas! Enjoy your time well spent with family and friends!

Mid-Dec

On another night shift-so far this one is a little less eventful than last night. Whew!!! last one was a blur from beginning to end. And I'm sharing this night with michelle-lucky me. So, December is half over. The days are getting shorter and the nights longer. I asked Del today, if it wouldn't be nice on Monday-the shortest day of the year-to go to bed at sunset and actually get to sleep till sunrise, thus enjoying the longest night of the year!!! Oh to have such a good sleep! Not in the works for me, cuz I get to work. But if anyone does get to try it, please let me know how that 15 hr sleep was!
Del's last single brother got married this weekend. Don & Noreen had a beautiful wedding! If I could post pictures, I would, but you know how thats going for me.....
Del's grandma stopped in for a visit at our house on Sunday night. That was special. She had decided when she came out for the wedding, she would visit all her grandsons in this family. I was quite impressed with her determination!!
Christmas shopping has wrapped up again. Ahead of all of the crazies at this time of year!! :-) Now I just like to shop and watch everyone else scramble for that special item on their list! Went for a fun shopping trip last week with a couple friends-had a wonderful time together!!! Between appts, eating, shopping, laughing, telling stories, and walking/sliding to where we wanted to go-special memories were made once again.

My mind is full of words, just waiting to come out.......not right now. I have work calling my name. Someday, when things are quiet, and nothing to do (yeah, right) then I'll have a long post once again.

Hope everyone is snug in their beds-snoring-dreaming-resting-rejuvinating-preparing for another wonderful day!