On the Sunday before Christmas, Schmoo woke up, said he didn't want breakfast and then asked to go back to bed. Um, EMERGENCY! That has never not once happened. I sent Honey to church (and made him take care of all our obligations) and Schmoo started to vomit an hour later. Poor guy, he's never had a fever that high before, either. He got up over 104 and we were so worried! He missed a few days of school but was able to go back for the last couple of fun days before Christmas. (yeah, they went to school here until December 23rd!!!! That's nuts!)
We were glad that Schmoo got sick before the holiday this year as he has been sick the last 2 Christmases.
We used our Storybook Land season passes one last time to go see Santa and ride the rides bundled up in all our winter finery. They really deck the halls at Storybook land. Kinda reminds me of how they do Temple Square in SLC :)
We made our Gingerbread house
For Christmas eve, we were invited over to our good friends' home. We had a lovely dinner, and a great family night talking about the Savior's birth. Then we watched Mr. Krueger's Christmas and were surprised by their generous Christmas gifts to Schmoo and us. It was such a great night and we all went home content in so many ways.
We made cookies for Santa and left carrots for the reindeer
Santa left a note and presents for Schmoo! (The big purple box was for me :) Finally got the bedding set I always wanted!) On Christmas morning, Schmoo came tearing into our room at the very conservative hour of 7am to tell us that Santa had left him presents and a letter!
Aftermath of stocking
We were sad that we were going to be at home with no family around for Christmas, but we ended up having such a great day! We had a happy morning opening presents and having breakfast. We played all day, made a delicious Christmas dinner and then played all evening. It was just perfect! Late Christmas night we realized a blizzard was heading in and we hunkered down! Most of Church was canceled the next day and we spent it as a family doing a repeat of Christmas day: play, eat, play, eat, play! There was a 'state of emergency' here and Honey's work was actually canceled bc of the road conditions that Monday. It was a wonderful 3 days of Christmas!
Our fun family present is this little cotton candy maker that makes cotton candy out of any flavor of hard candy. We've had fun with this! In my opinion, Werther's cotton candy is the best! (Butterscotch and tropical lifesavers also AWESOME!)
Sad, but true, Christmas ended and two days later Schmoo was sick again. This time with the dreaded cough and all of its complications, but at least it wasn't on Christmas, right?
