Stuck somewhere in between

After a long holiday weekend, I'm finding it hard to get back in the swing of things. We've been gone from home since lunchtime Thursday, so I've got a lot of catching up to do--unpacking and laundry and all that fun stuff. Not to mention the decorating I've got planned for the day, along with a head spinning with Christmas card ideas and shopping lists. I love this time of year, but it does make for a lot of work.

We spent Thursday in Erie, first having dinner with my mom, and then later at my dad's. In between times, I got in a short visit with Cara and her family. I'm glad I got to see her because she'll be with her husband's family at Christmas this year. But of course it was a long day, and G was a little cranky, and Evan had more energy than he knew what to do with. I'm not sure where it came from--while the rest of us ate two entire turkey dinners, Evan ate some Cheerios, a handful of Hershey's Kisses, a bowl of Cool-Whip, and two slices of buttered toast. That's for lunch and dinner. Yeah. Maybe his way is the way to go.

At about 8:30 Thursday night, we headed west to spend the remainder of the weekend with Mike's family. We got to their house just before 11, and stayed until the end of the early football games yesterday. It was a nice weekend--we had another great turkey dinner and celebrated Grandma's birthday, did some shopping and just hung out. The only bad part was that both of our nephews were sick, so we spent a lot of time washing hands and disinfecting toys and crossing our fingers. It was the same thing our guys had at the end of October, and the boys were looking better by Sunday morning, so here's hoping that it doesn't come back to our house again.

Now, I'm off to the basement to dig out the tree and lights and sixteen other boxes of joy. It's going to be quite a day.