Another Christmas
Woman in the Middle | December 28, 2016I seem to have taken a few days off after Christmas this year. Not on purpose. It just worked out that way. One reason was because all the worker bees in our house had the 26th off. Oddly enough, when my family is around I actually enjoy interacting with them. Also Hubby likes to get the occasional crack at the computer when he is around. (I really need to get that man his own….) Then there was the after Christmas shopping. I don’t shop for myself. I shop for bargain things we can stuff in stockings for the children’s Christmas group I am involved in. So my after Christmas shopping involves lots of dollar stores.
Then there is the cold I picked up, which conveniently waited until the day after Christmas to roar into my life. I appreciate that a lot, really, I do. But it seems like ever since I got that horrible cold and bronchitis back in October of 2013, colds like to go into my chest right away. I was never a chest cold sort of person. Now I am. So when I wasn’t shopping or fighting Hubby for the computer, I was napping or laying on the couch reading one of the books I got for Christmas. I am still doing that, the laying around part that is.
One of the reasons Hubby was on the computer on the 26th was because we have a leaking shower and he was trying to figure out how to find the leak without taking out wallboard or tile. This particular bathroom is in the middle of the house and when the shower leaks water runs into the hallway, The wood floor there is toast from previous leaks, but we still need it to stop the water leaking into the wall. He managed to find a leak and fix it. We shall see if that was the only leak the next time some one showers in that bathroom. Oh, the joys of home ownership!
On the cat front, the boys have a new toy they love. A friend of Eldest Daughter happens to be Jewish, and she ran across a line of cat and dog toys called “Chewish.” Get it? LOL! Anyway, she bought our cats a little dreidel on the end of a long elastic string. We keep hanging it up here or there and boy do the young cats love that thing! Nox is playing with it right now, even as I type. Dear Hubby has already had to repair it once because they loved it to pieces.
Meanwhile, the rain has washed us clean and we are having beautiful sunny weather. The distant mountains look lovely with their snow capped peaks and our nearby hills are turning green. Perfect So Cal winter weather!
I hope you had a Merry Christmas!
Nothing wrong with interacting with the family from time to time but too much interacting leads to wanting to throttle someone or is that just me, I love my family but at times they drive me nuts. Tim has his own computer which is good as I don’t like him using mine
LOL! Yep, throttle is a good way of putting it!
I’m sorry you have a chest cold but glad that it didn’t ruin your Christmas. Besides, what’s wrong with a little rest during the Winter Break? Maybe get Hubby a laptop for his birthday? I LOVE having a laptop and refuse to go back to a computer. You can get them as inexpensive as $300.