My holiday

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I don't even know where to begin for the holidays. P went back to the Dr as she continues to have a bad cough. She ended up leaving with a diagnosis of sinus infection and bronchitis that may be turning into pneumonia, this after a round of antibiotics and prednisone. She got another round of a different antibiotic and cough medicine with codeine. She also ended up not going to work which meant she came to my house, GRIN. We exchanged gifts, she was VERY generous. I have such huge receiving issues but I was able to keep them in check because many of them we could use together. I love looking to the future with her. We also finally got some decorations on the tree. Went to bed later than we should considering her being sick.

Saturday I was off to my Dad's where my sisters were already there. I tend to be chronically late especially when it's not something like work. This time, it was A's fault. He claimed he didn't know when we were going and he still had some presents to wrap. After finally getting there, we had breakfast of goldenrod eggs and fruit salad. YUM! Afterwards we open presents. In the middle of it, I get a call from my ex husband (he apparently mixed up the dates and thought we were doing christmas on that day-WRONG). I still have my phone on vibrate and I'm glad because I also get a call from P. She's in the emergency room. This freaks me out and I'm torn between running out the door to her and having christmas with my family. I'm so shaken up that I can't even ask good questions that she can answer in her state. I tell her that I'm going to stay for the rest of the presents and then go to her. She is alone at the hospital and in great pain. I get out as soon as I can and get there. She is curled up on the hospital bed and still in great pain despite the morphine. Turns out, she's passing a kidney stone. Having had gallstones, I know what kind of pain it is. The father of her kids and her kids also showed up a bit after I got there. I had met the father and one of her boys but not the other one and now I got the chance. It was some what ackward but we got through it. One of her boys drove her car home and I took P to fill her Rxs before I took her to my Dad's. She ended up passing the stone as soon as we got there and rested for a few hours. I was so glad she was doing better. The stone looks weird, like two different ones attached to each other, different colors. I also took a nap after all that stress. Woke up in time to get ready for Christmas eve service that my Dad wanted to go to. We got there early to make sure we got good seats and enjoyed the hand bell choir, organ music(my Dad's favorite). There were three ministers who despite my reservations (although, I did read on the website that they are a welcoming congregation)whom at various times seemed to be just sitting there and other times in great joy. The youngest minister did the welcoming part at the begining and after a while I realized that I think that he was the transgendered minister that I had read about once. Turns out after double checking that he is. Very cool, as I'm really supportive of folks that work through hard decisions and find their best resolutions, even if its hard for other people to deal with. Home quite late and off to bed before the next holiday.

Sunday late to my other christmas with my mother, P dropped me off because we now have one car (as her boy drove her car home when she was sick and couldn't drive). She was going to her holiday but I really wanted her to be at my holiday-even though she was coming later. My mother has decided that my exhusband will always be family. Perhaps because my sisters don't have any husbands/boyfriends and my mom wants some more male energy (besides our son) in the family. She has a tendency of catering to men and people who are not family...actually she also tends to cater to us too sometimes. As I was late, I "missed" breakfast but quick ate a muffin and had some coffee. We exchanged presents, had lunch and then played games. I was getting restless, I wanted P to come back. We ate pretty continuous although I tried to keep it in check. For lunch my mom made soup (homemade), salad(with her famous ranch dressing) and good bread. We also had lots of treats that my sister made (white chocolate with candy cane, ritz crackers with peanut butter dipped in chocolate, thumbprint cookies and sugar cookies). We were playing "nerds" when P came, and she slid right in (as my mom put it). She got to be there at the tail end of the holidays when we were decidedly getting on each others nerves. It's when we start getting snippy. We mostly kept it in check but I knew that too much more time and it wouldn't have the same sense of loving the family during the holidays. I was surprised that my ex stayed so late as he did. He was teasing P and I about our "whispering" to each other, I thought we were just talking quietly but apparently we was hyper aware of it. Perhaps he saw how happy I was and was envious. At one point, my ex started talking about his family, I have no contact with them anymore because of their choosing. He was updating me on them. I just want to say that I'm SO glad that I'm not part of that family. My former sis in law is 4 years younger than I am but has now been married, had a child and divorced three different men. former brother in law is suppose to appear in court for child molestation charges against his step daughter and another girl. This is really great because it might appear in the paper and we(my boy and I) have the same last name. former mother in law still has her addiction to gambling, although now it appears that she's either hiding it really good or just switched to online. She wanted her son and grandson (my ex and our boy) to go visit her and offered them each $100 to do it. Thankfully, my ex decided that he didn't want to go because of that and explained it to our son. I didn't want our son to think it was okay to accept money to go visit someone.



Anyway, Monday was a day for sleeping in, catching up, breathing and taking it easy. I've got to get P to her car as she has to work tonight. I also want to look for a nice outfit for the New Year's Gala in a couple of weeks. I never have enough time!

I hope you all had a great holiday!