Goodbye Christmas

Oh, Christmas is finally over.... I am so glad... I love Christmas now - didn't before I met my hubby, but I think I wrote about that last time... so it's all over. All of the kids got everything that they asked for - with the exception of Shelby, who didn't ask for anything until the day before Christmas, and then she says that she wants a DS or a Wii -nothing like asking for the most expensive gifts the day before Christmas!! So the next big thing on the agenda is Zach's b-day which is the 30th, and then Candy's bday on the 31st - we have a watch night service at church that night. Those are always fun.
Sarah has been sick since Thurs, running fever and then this morning when I was washing her hair she told me that her ears hurt - so she probably has the dreaded ear infection. She was the first child that I had that got ear infections, but she gets them entirely too much - and funny thing is, Shelby started getting them too, her first one came at age 6, and it seemed like she had them one right after the other the whole year. I was telling D just the other day that it's been a long time since any of us had been sick, which when you're talking about 7 people - that's pretty impressive... Sarah might be getting the croup too, cause she has the runny nose and dry barky cough - she just doesn't feel good. So thank goodness for AT&T and DVR's - it's a day full of Jack's Big Music Show and Lazy Town for Sarah while I clean out the kids rooms to make room for the new Christmas gifts and clothes... this is my least favorite part of Christmas, but we have a family at church that can really use Hayden's outgrown clothes - I don't really have anyone to pass down Shelby's things too, so I think we are just going to donate those. I hate to haggle with the people at the resale shops - they make me so mad, and besides, I would rather give them to someone who really needs them. Well, signing off to go clean out the pig pens that we call Hayden and Shelby's rooms :)