well, saturday's the big day. however, our phone, internet, and tv are all being disconnected at some point tomorrow. phone will be hooked up at the new place on saturday, dish network installed saturday afternoon, and internet hooked up on monday. i'll tell ya, this moving during the holidays is for the birds. charter's been after us the past 2 days trying to get us to come back to them...not going to happen. stupid charter. next time they call, i might try to see what i could get them to agree to to get us to come back...free dvr? upgrade the tv package for free? increase modem speed for free? hard to tell.
so, christmas. we left here around 9:15 on monday night. why so late? well, church got done around 8:10, and despite my good intentions, i didn't get out of there till about 8:20, which got me home around 8:45. then ian needed to eat, and packing needed to be finalized, and then ian spit up everything he had eaten. so, we got on the road and it was a pretty good drive up. got there a bit after 11pm, and abby went straight to bed, of course. ian's christmas present to us was his longest stretch of sleep yet...6 whole consecutive hours! best christmas present ever. :) things we forgot to pack: the pack and play, and all of brian's clothes. christmas morning came. abby still had no voice, but was feeling significantly better. we opened presents with my parents, and around mid-morning, i started feeling very achy and had the chills. as anyone who knows me knows, i never get cold. so when i started complaining that it was freezing in the house, i realized i might actually have a fever. and sure enough, 99 degrees. which for me, whose body temp is usually in the low 97's, is a pretty good fever. so i took some tylenol, and felt much better. weird. even though it went away relatively quickly, it still put a damper on my christmas spirit. we had lunch (ham, cranberry sauce, salad, cheesy potatoes, escargots, cookies/treats), and then headed over to menasha. everyone got there around 4:30 and we ate supper (salisbury steak, mac and cheese, cottage cheese, mashed potatoes, rolls, corn) and then opened presents. abby and james and hayden ran around like crazy, so it was all pretty chaotic. after presents, we loaded up and headed back home around 7. so, it was a good christmas, despite the sickies that have invaded our family. brian went to the doctor yesterday and probably has bronchitis, so he's on antibiotics now, and abby just finished her course of antibiotics and will probably be done with the steroids tomorrow.
the packing has been proceeding relatively well, considering. wish us luck on our last day living here tomorrow, and with the big move on saturday. i'm so grateful we're not moving ourselves, but the packing is stressful enough. christmas pictures to come, once we're settled in.
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