Day 95

What a day!  I sure hope Christmas is a happy day...or I guess New Year's Eve is the LAST holiday of the year...today was good, but the Mann family likes to keep it interesting let me tell ya!  All three of my guys are sick and we spent most of the night up with Connor giving him a combo of Motrin and Tylenol to knock down his 106 fever.  Called the on call nurse at CHOC and she told me we were doing everything right.  Connor was happy as a clam at 10 O clock tonight in a luke-warm bath.  They all seemed so fine at dinner!  So onto my happy thoughts for the day and then I have to get up at 1 AM to check on Connor one last time.  If his fever is still pretty much gone, we are good for the night!  If not, it'll be Motrin time and then set my alarm for 4AM for the Tylenol run...don't you wish you were ME right now??  Ok this IS kinda funny...I am the HEALTHY one out of my family so that is why I am doing the med administrations.  Is it WRONG that we are laughing our way through this night and when we thought we had to take Connor to the ER, we were borderline hysterical??  Not funny HA HA but more like...what...what else could there POSSIBLY BE AT THIS POINT!  Bring it on Christmas!!!


But seriously...never defy the universe...not a good idea...so we will just go with the flow, be grateful all is well right now and move on shall we?

So dinner tonight was just LOVELY.  We had such a great time working our way through the buffet and David and I had this whole battle strategy for getting the kids and us food as fast as possible.  It worked out really well and in the end, we got to eat everything that we wanted to....ok there was the missed trip to the pasta bar, but really...I was NOT carb loading today...it was ALL about the turkey!  That turkey was so wonderful and juicy and I didn't regret for a second not being able to make my turkey this year!  HAPPY!  The view we were treated to during dinner was simply wonderful.  The sun set behind Catalina Island and we could see all the way to Palos Verde.  The trees were all lit up with twinkling sparkly lights by the time we came out after dinner and the drive down the big hill was really fun for us and the kids....Connor, "down down down down!" It is a pretty steep hill!


After dinner, we came home and I did a little pre-Black Friday shopping.  A lot of the websites have their sales up online already and it was great to get almost 100% of my shopping done tonight.  I need to get everything I can done this weekend!  Some of the websites even offered gift wrapping for a fee..um...yes please!  The pathetic attempt I made at wrapping a gift for Joel's friend's birthday present told me there would be NO wrapping of gifts for me this year.  With another surgery, my arm will for sure be out of commission, so I am thankful websites offered that! 

Well, that is pretty much it for today.  I am so thankful for a day that is all about BEING thankful.  I am thankful for so many things.  I treasure my dear friends, I love my sweet, precious family, and I am so thankful to be alive!  Each day I get to wake up and breath and enjoy life's little precious moments!  I am so lucky to get to have happy moments each day!  95 days worth of documented happy moments thus far...I can't wait to see what comes next.  Happy Thanksgiving all!
It was great to sit around and talk after we were done eating and the boys behaved so well!