Well, we enjoyed a wonderful, fun first Christmas with Walker. It was great to go to church, spend time with family, the food (mass quantities at two houses) was delicious, and Walker cleaned up on the gifts. He now has plenty of toys, more clothes, sweet blankets, and a bouncy seat. He calls the bouncy seat his "miracle chair" and sits in it happy as a lark all the time now.Monday after Christmas everybody went away on vacation but us. The Walkers went to Cloudcroft to relax in the resort-style ranch, the Wards went to Purgatory to ski on rocks, and our neighbors, the Presleys went to Arkansas and Kentucky. We stayed here with all five dogs and our baby. We offered to keep Lindsay's new 4runner for her, but she said it would be allright without her!
The week turned out okay after all. Duke settled right in at our house, and the Presley's dogs only had one episode of diarrea in the house. Luckily Aaron's a pro at cleaning up dog messes after Abraham's weak stomach of his youth! I worked a few days, and Aaron enjoyed a short week with Monday off. I went to lunch Monday with Julie, my longtime friend (the daughter of Jane and Bill who own the resort-style ranch in Cloudcroft), and I was supposed to have a friend come over for lunch today. She has been my friend since the fifth grade, and we get together occasionally. Today we had alot to discuss because she just got engaged and hasn't met Walker yet, but, alas, she is a nurse and worked with a newborn with Chicken Pox last night at the hospital. So, she couldn't come expose Walker to the disease, and I am left with tortilla soup and a wasted clean house!
Now, we have big plans for New Year's Eve including working for me and writing for Aaron and even bigger plans for New Year's Day including making a budget and putting away our Christmas decorations! Ahhh, the life of an adult! It's not as exciting as it seems when you are young in bed while they laugh loudly and play dominoes. Maybe Aaron and I will do that after we put Walker in bed on New Year's Eve just to get him used to it!
5 comments:
I love tortilla soup you should have called me over. clean houses are over rated.
It did always sound like they were having a blast out there, didn't it? But I remember once being allowed to come out and watch (I don't remember the occasion). I didn't understand it. There would be long stretches of near silence and then someone would place a dominoe and that loud laughter would begin again.
Don't you love New Years Eve? Walker continues to be a cute little guy. I sit in my miracle chair, but people just call me a lazy bum.
What a cute kid! I think you should bring him down for a visit now. :)
Now see, Kara, you got it a little mixed up. There were those that laughed loudly and those that played dominoes, but not both. I cannot remember the rules used to separate the two groups, but we never did both. I usually ended up in the laughing group.
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