And so this is Christmas
All week I’ve been calling it that “shitty holiday” and wishing it were over already.
Now that it’s over, it wasn’t so bad.
For just a brief moment, about 10:30 this morning, I looked at the clock and thought “Oh, better call Mom”, but the thought quickly passed, and without tears. That’s an improvement.
I had plenty to distract myself with though, so that’s good.
The day started with Sean crawling in to bed beside me at 6am. “I know it’s too early but I can’t get back to sleep”. haha Poor kid. I told him he could lay there with me until 7am. Half an hour later, we’re both still awake. Pretty sure Scott was awake the whole time too but he wasn’t saying anything. Then Ashley comes and crawls in bed beside Sean. We all toss and turn and finally get out of bed at 7am. We come out, check out all the gifts under the tree, the new electronic toys on the coffee table (iPad, Galaxy tab) then the kids go through their stocking stuff. Candy and chocolate, yum!
We make coffee, Ashley calls Lorna at 7:20, just as her alarm goes off. Nice timing, that.
Lorna and Brandon show up about an hour later, we all open gifts.
Spent the rest of the morning/afternoon playing with our new toys.
Went to Jimmy and Ellen’s about 5pm for dinner, got home about 11pm.
I got some new books that I’m pretty excited about. Didn’t get some of the things I was hoping for. That still feels kinda weird, I gotta say. Scott has always been so good at getting me great things, things I want, things I didn’t know I wanted… Oh well, there’s always my birthday in less than a month! lol
Oh, can’t forget to mention, Ashley got a Blackberry, Sean an iPod Touch. Both are very happy with their gifts from us. Ashley says she almost cried. She was on that damn phone all day! And Sean spent a lot of time on his iPod, as predicted.
It’s going on 3am, everyone is asleep. I just finished some TF2 and now I’m just sitting here with that ‘not quite right’ feeling.
Something is missing. My Mom is missing. I want so badly to be able to call her up and talk to her. Tell her all the things that have happened over the past year or so. Mostly, I’d just really like to hear her voice again.
