Christmas and the New Year...

Well, I guess I'll start with Christmas. We had a blizzard here in Oklahoma City on Christmas eve which ruined our plans to bring Fletcher home to spend the night like we normally do. Which made for a very sad mommy. Craig was sad as well and wanted to at least try to go to TCC and see how bad it was out there. Well, it was bad! We had to be realistic. It was entirely too risky to put our ventilator dependant child and all his medical equipment in our minivan. What if we got stranded? What if we got stuck? What if...so we drove several miles up the road and decided to turn around to come home without Fletcher. We had to also think of the girls if we were to get stranded and how it would ruin their Christmas. So home we went. We carried on with our family traditions of the kids opening one present (which is always an ornament), Craig read the Christmas story to us and we sang Happy Birthday to Jesus and ate a piece of the cake the girls and I made earlier that day. Santa came and went and we woke up to the beautiful 3 to 4 feet of snow outside. Then my very sweet husband shoveled the driveway and sidewalk for over an hour so we could go and get our boy! We took our time getting to TCC and back home with our precious cargo. All was right in our universe...all five of us together for Christmas day. Craig's parents and his sister and her family came over and ate dinner with us. The roads were still quite treacherous so they were only here for a short while but it was great to be with family.

Craig, the girls and I celebrated New Years Eve here at home. We ate some tortilla soup, watched Aliens in the Attic and played Guitar Hero World Tour. It was a nice way to bring in the new year. We are blessed and looking forward to 2010 and all that it has in store for our family.