happy 2014

oh boy.  we've had a rough couple of weeks.  the flu came to visit the week before Christmas and then a terrible cough and cold followed.  By Christmas Eve, I thought I might die.  For real.  I wasn't sleeping, couldn't eat or drink anything and basically felt like a useless piece of garbage.  The kids were all coughing and miserable too, but I was not even able to function.  I went into urgent care and tested positive for strep and bronchitis... and got some meds that put me to sleep for the past week.  I really haven't slept so hard or so much in my life.

she had a double ear infection this week.  let's hope the worst is over..

Last night for NYE we stayed in our pjs all day.  We met up with some friends at the church for an hour or two of dodge ball (the kids played, the moms sat on the sidelines and talked).  It was a pretty good group of 15 or so boys.  Aaron got off work a bit early and we went to dinner at Cafe Rio.  and then we came home and went to sleep.  I think I was out by 7:45pm.  Aaron and the boys stayed up to watch World War Z (no thank you) and then watched fireworks on our street and on the strip.  I think I might have heard something at midnight, but I'm not sure.  Not exactly exciting, but also much less disappointing than one would expect.

This morning we all slept in until about 9am.  Eventually all the kids ended up in our bed and we tried to make a plan for today... because absolutely nothing was on the schedule.  We had some crayons close to the bed and Luke passed out paper and we made goals for 2014, which turned out to be really cute and inspiring.  I will be hanging our lists in the house so we can see them often.  Our goals are simple and realistic and good.  But in reality, we have big plans for 2014, we're just too afraid to write them down... outrageous goals like a new baby, new dog, new house, new job, new car... new state or country wouldn't be bad either to add to the list.  We're kind of waiting for a few things to fall in line first, but then we are going to be makers of our own destiny.

Truth is, everyone would be okay exactly how life is.  Our life is good and our family is happy.  We did nothing today... warmed up pizza for lunch and had ghetto nachos for dinner.  Aaron fixed a list of things around the house (my vacuum isn't working!) and I took a long nap and woke up to a big puddle of drool (that's how hard I'm sleeping lately, it's ridiculous.)  The kids played with their Legos and jumped on the tramp for a few hours.  We folded laundry while watching Dan In Real Life and everyone had a shower at some point.  And we were just happy to be together.  We didn't go anywhere and or do anything and that was perfectly okay with everyone, which makes me so proud of my cute, well adjusted kids.  While we were all on my bed this morning, we told the kids we'd take them to Frozen if they wanted, and they all wanted.  But then not one of them asked to go later in the day or even questioned whether or not we were going to do something "fun", we just had "fun" in our own way.  I love those kind of days.

Right now there are a few games going on.  Luke's waiting for me to play Mastermind, but I'm not that excited because I can never win.  He's a smart one, that Luke.  We're going to start tomorrow like usual... breakfast, piano practice and maybe the park if we feel up to it.  And as soon as we're 100% we're going to kick this January out of the ball park... or not.  But we'll be okay no matter what.

ps.  my husband is my favorite.  he walks around the house in nice, silky, thick tennis clothes pretending not to care about his looks, but he's super handsome.  He's always clean and trimmed and smells delicious.  And he's so helpful.... fixing things, playing with the kids, making food and putting away our Christmas boxes like I asked him to do it, but I didn't even have to say a word.  He just knows exactly how to be helpful and handsome and the BEST dad without even trying.  Today as he put Roma down for a nap he cuddled her and danced and sang in her ear for a good 5 minutes before he put her in her crib.  I watched from a far thinking that she's the luckiest girl in the world.  but really, I'm pretty sure I am.