So today is Sunday and I thought I should be better at keeping my blog up to date. So we will start with Christmas. Our 2010 Christmas was at my parents house. Everyone was able to attend even if it was a late showing. Like Roxanne for example, who spent her Christmas is the hospital in Arizona due to a kidney stone infection that they didn't know was a kidney stone until she had passed it. Roxanne being prego made it difficult to treat her or find out what the problem was. So despite Roxanne's thyroid cancer and the burden of being pregnant she is OK now as far as we know. Shortly after getting out of the Hospital she drove her and Jet to California to spend new years with her Family. Paul flew in and spent new years with us also.
Rewinding back a bit, to before Christmas. I was going to fly home with Seth two and a half weeks before Christmas to do the Plymouth mail rout for my brother Cannon. My Mother was desperate to find him a sub, so that he could go on his little vacation to New York with his girlfriend Rachel Shepardson. My mom was hoping that he would go and come back engaged. So I did it and discovered that flying with a baby by yourself is so hard. Seth was a dead log in my arms while I stood in super long lines holding him and all the baggage. I never want to do that again. I actually ended up putting him on my suite case that has wheels and a handle to pull it with and wheeled him around the airport. I had a monkey harness on him so as long as I held on to that I was not worried he would fall off. To my amazement he slept through it all. He looked like a little rag doll on my suit case as cute as could be with his little dog hat on. Everyone and their mother was just ooing and awing at how cute he was and how awesome it was that I was just wheeling him around asleep on my bag. It never ended. I got comments about it everywhere I when with him. Some people even asked me if they could take a picture of him. Anyway after all the stuff I went through at the air port I was so tired and I thought that Airports should cater more to women traveling with children cuz it is worse than a handy cap in a lot of ways.
Well my Mom picked me up in Oakland and she took me out to lunch witch was nice. I felt sick of course because I always do when I get a lack of sleep and food. We when strait to the family Christmas party at my aunt Dian's house in Forest hill. I was not much fun because I was so tired. I tried though. I met Rachel for the first time there and decided that she had my approval if Cannon really was going to ask her to marry him. After the party I made arrangements with Sandee Stanbridge to drive to her place and spend all day Sunday with her. It was crazy weather that night and cannon only had one had light working on his car that I borrowed. I had fun with Sandee but the best part of my visit was all the good catch up sleep that I got. I felt so much better after that Sunday was over and I drove back home to my parents house. When I got home Clayton said that he was disappointed when I did not come home on Saturday Morning after my flight, because he said that he sat by the kitchen window waiting for me and mom to drive up any moment, and we never did. One thing I love about my younger brothers is how excited they get when anyone of us comes home for a visit. They always call us when we drive and ask where we are and what time we will be pulling in the drive. than an hour will pass and we get another call where are you at now? It is nice to feel loved by their great anticipation of our arrivals.
most of Christmas break was me working the route and handing Seth off to my parents in the early morning before work. He would always cry of course. My parents kept trying to Winn him over and get him to feel comfortable with them, but it took until the end of our visit for that to happen, much to my parents disappointment. Mark drove up with Victoria's whole family in their van plus a friend that Victoria invited to spend Christmas with us. They arrived the day before Christmas eve. Out side of the presents on Christmas morning and Roxanne's hospital drama Christmas consisted of Caroling with the smith family. Eating good meals and a lot of board and card games. It was fun my Dad did the stockings and my parents gave everyone a little something. Me they got a big thing of Nutella. I like that stuff. My Dad got Seth a big Worm that you ride on, and he gave Max and Kate a red Waggon. The Fun thing we did this year and have kinda started doing is a white elephant gift exchange. My Mom and Dad put in some of the best gifts. Like a rifle that my dad got when he was 16,and a coo coo clock he got off line that is a classic. Roxanne put in a Tom Tom. We put in a DVD player that edits your movie for you. Victoria put in a nice camping stove and other camping nick nacks Levi put in a six pack of root beer with a Lego set and a few other things that I cant remember, but it was good. Clayton put in a big cozy sleeping bag. Mark said that the thing that sticks out most is Victoria's friend she brought Tatiana who was from Brazil, and didn't speak very good English. He thought she was memorable.
