Christmas wasn't what was expected

Over the last 5 years with kids I've learned to be able to cancel plans when needed without much regret.  This year we cancelled most of our Christmas activities.  And... mostly without regret.  Mostly.  We were going to go to my cousin Christmas Eve party... which I love... and we had gotten tickets to see Les Mesirables on Christmas... we'll see it later.

Ada had a 101 degree fever for 3 days... it finally broke late Christmas (she was one emotional little girl over presents).  Jer and Sammy have a croupy cough.  I have had a sinus infection for weeks and just haven't made it to the doctor for the anitbiotic.  (Finally got there today though.  Yay!)  We did get to play with and visit our Robertson extended family Friday, Sunday and Monday we went and hung our with Matt and Marg's family.  But then we had our first ever Family Christmas.  No leaving the house, no visiting with others... just us and the kids.  It was actually pretty relaxing.  Don't get me wrong, I still did laundry, dishes, cooking, baths for fevery kids, taking out three bags of trash, etc... but I did it because I was here to do it... not because I felt it HAD to be done.  Jer made a yummy buttermilk pancake Christmas feast.  We watched Evelyn open chocolate bar after chocolate bar... she only bit each one once then was done with it.  After long naps you could tell that Ada was herself again.  Even though we missed seeing family, it was nice to just be together the whole day.