Who's sicklyerest

It was quite cute, on Fri morning, which was after the night that I was the sickest and still not feeling too great in the morning, I came upstairs and found Macy and Stella and Hattie and Papaw. I looked at Macy and said, "I'm sick, somebody made me sick." Macy said, "Stella or Macy?" and I said, yes. Macy quickly replied, "Stella."

Christmas morning

Jason was supposed to get to Utah on Christmas Eve around 2pm, instead, he spent all day in the Indy airport, finally went home and caught a flight out early on Christmas morning. Chris and Alyona picked him, and joined the rest of us at Paige's. Still not as bad as his experience trying to get home last year, stuck at the SLC airport, finally got a flight to Chicago and drove to Indy. Then it was all weather; this time it was problems with the plane.

Still, we had a nice Christmas.

 Poor little Macy was still sick, but getting better, and got a few of the rest of us (me! and Jessica and Alyona a little) sick.

For Christmas Eve we stayed at Paige's because my mom and sis Kris came over, Paige and fam went to the Upstills. Christmas Dinner was at Paige's, and the Upstills and Kristi came for that. It was enjoyable.

Friday the skiers were only Jason and Chris. Usually a bunch go, but Scott and Jessica went to Oklahoma for her family's Christmas with a grandmother who isn't expected to live much longer, Paige couldn't leave nursing Hatie for that long, Rick's hip hurts too much, Kincade was working and I haven't skiied for 60 pounds ago.

Jason left early on Sat, Rick and I did some after Christmas sales with Paige and ggrrls, Paige and fam went to get family pics and Rick and I were onto Chris' for borscht and salad. Watched The Villian, which I had been trying to get everyone to see. I saw it 30 years ago and remembered it being funny. It's not.

Rick left early this morning, and I will stay for Scott and Macy's Bday, Jan 1 and 3. I go back home on Jan 7 because tickets were half the price than they were earlier.

Macy sick

Stella came home sick from school last week, passed it on to both Macy and Paige (and Macy was just getting over from a bout of something or other). Yesterday we were out and they weren't feeling well, so Rick took both Stella and Macy home. Macy took a nap and when she woke up, her temp was high and her chest was raspy, so Paige and I took her over to the InstaCare. The doc there said he wasn't set up to really see what was happening with her, but because of a fever of 103.5 and a heartrate of 160 (quite high) he recommended she be taken to the hospital ER. Kincade met Paige and I came home.

There they weren't as worried as the InstaCare doc, saying the high heart rate was normal with a high fever, took some chest x-rays to make sure more wasn't going on, gave a prescription for antibiotics (for the ear infection he found, but told Paige we are the only Western country that treats for ear infections) and sent her home. She hadn't eaten much yesterday, so Kincade had stopped and gotten her a McDouble and she ate almost the entire thing.

Meanwhile, Hattie had woken up and it was dinner time. She doesn't like bottles, even with breast milk in them. But this time, with no options, Rick was able to get her to take a bottle. Sure wasn't happy until she got a little food in her tummy.

When you have children, the fun and games never end. If it's not one thing, then it's another. As parents, I think being worried about your children continues until you die or become senile.

Weather and weather and weather

Having been raised in Idaho and enjoyed all the snow and cold weather when it came, I have to say I really enjoyed living in the 2 warm states I have, North Carolina and Texas. Today it's supposed to be 77*. It was 11* in Eagle Mt a few days ago.

Rick and I went to a Christmas dinner party last night, it was at The Domain (Austin's "nice" mall). The side facing the mall walk area was open (altho had big glass doors/windows that could be pulled to close it) and it was fun to be sitting in the open air, essentially, having the dinner party.

I write all this because Chris sent us a pic looking out his French doors.
Well anyway, lots of snow (I have tried for 10 min to post it, so I'm giving up).

I think when we retire to the Utah Valley area, we will need the winter house in St George.

And these are our Leaders and Statesmen, behaving like Jr and High School "In-group" kids

Everything is political

I was buying stamps to mail my Christmas cards, and bought some nativity type and then saw the Hannukkah stamps and asked for some of those also. I was talking to my sis Kris and told her I had bought Hannukkah stamps. She said, "Why did you do that?" with the implication that since I'm a Christian....
I said to show solidarity with Israel, because of Iran's continuing promise to obliterate the country as soon as they get nukes, and the entire Mideast assembling against them, and with Obama's foreign policy such that Israel is not able to count on the Americans as their oldest ally since statehood in 1948 (and before).

She said, chuckling, I read one of your last posts, and it is true - you can make anything political.
I take that as a compliment.