Decorating for Christmas

I got down my boxes of Christmas decorations today. That's as far as it's gotten, down from the shelf in the closet, but I have plans to decorate the apartment today. I don't have a lot to do, we don't have a tree or lights. I've spotted a couple things from Halloween that I didn't put away that need to be taken care of as well. I'm thinking about having a family come in for Christmas pictures so I can advertise them. I'd give them a free 8 x 10 just for posing. I'm going to have a coupon printed in our local newspaper tomorrow. I wonder if anyone I know will notice it.

Thanksgiving

For some reason, this year my family decided not to tell me that Thanksgiving dinner was going to be a half hour later than usual. doesn't matter, I guess. I had a good time visiting Grandma before hand. A couple cousins came from up north to visit and were planning on getting out of our way before dinner but grandma insisted they stay. It was nice to see them again. Grandma bought each of us grandkids and great-grandkids a gift. I got a bag of gummi bears and so did one of my brothers. Our other brother got a package of snickers and my son got a package of construction equipment. He loved it! My niece got a jumprope. My darling husband was home sick. Poor guy. I hope he feels better today.

sickness

So it seems illness has struck our family once again. My little prince was on antibiotics for a week and off school for a couple days as well. He's much better now, but the King of the Castle seems to have the flu! Of course he won't admit it. I've been lucky so far, but I don't holdout much hope. Not that it matters, when the Queen of the castle gets sick the world doesn't stop. The dishes don't wash themselves and neither does the laundry.

fever

My little prince was sent home from school with what they said was a 100 temp with orders not to bring him in the next day. I checked his temp that day and all the next and got no reading over 98.1. I even bought a new thermometer. Nope. The next day he goes back to school before te weekend. Then wakes up in the middle of the night with a 101 temp! I've been fighting it all weekend. It varied from normal up to 103.9 at one point! He's only had 99 a couple times to day so I'll check him again in the morning and hopefully send him to school instead of the doctor!