Christmas 2007

Our Christmas was good except a few major things! Caleb sustained a 2nd degree burn on his left hand on Christmas eve. He decided to touch my parents fireplace. It happened around noon that day, so thank goodness we were able to get in to see our doctor as opposed to having to go to emerg. She couldn’t do much for him, cream and dressings were not an option since he would either lick or tear off anything. So she prescribed codeine for him, which we gave to him that night. He was a trooper and still is. It really ballooned up in blisters, which they slowly oozed, and yet he still managed to crawl around on his hand. Never gave him anymore codeine because on Christmas day he broke out in a huge rash. So he was fine with just Tylenol. We still give him that because now that it’s drying up and such, I think it bothers him. We were back to the doctors on Thursday and she said that it doesn’t look so terrible and assured us that she has seen much worse and usually on both hands. We have to go again next week so she can make sure that it will heal properly with not much scars. Ahhhh, it has been an exhausting Christmas! I dont' think there is any thing worse in this world than to see your child suffer.

Other than this, it was a good Christmas. Everyone was spoiled, we have so many toys for Caleb, I don't even know where to begin to put them! Dave and I have been off this week, and it's been nice to just relax with him and Caleb, we haven't done that in a long time. We've had breakfast out with friends, and I even tried a new casserole and invited some friends over to try it. Tomorrow, Dave and I are going to have a date. After church we're going to leave Caleb with his parents and enjoy a late lunch and then go to the movies. I think we're going to see National Treasure #2. We purchased Harry Potter the other day and I think we're going to watch that tonight.

I'm sad for this week to be over. It means I have to go back to work and this time, there isn't a week holiday in sight. That makes it difficult to leave Caleb all over again. But I have to deal with it, suck it up!

We don't have many plans to ring in the new year this time around. I'm fine with this. New Years is over rated I think! I'll ring it in probably at 9pm and then go to bed! Life of an old lady I guess!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, (less scary than mine anyway!)

Santa Claus

Here's the little guy, meeting Santa for the first time. This Santa was at the Eaton Centre. It was cute seeing Caleb look at him, he liked his beard.

The storm they are all talking about is sad. I normally would love a big snow storm, usually I say, bring it on! But tomorrow is the big party day for Caleb. It won't be the same if my family can't make it. So I'm hoping that they are all wrong about the storm and that it really "blows over" so we miss it!

I Made it Through The First Week

It totally was not easy! My days were long and I was really tired by the time I got Caleb in bed after a day. I think I'm neither a morning or a night person anymore. I never was a morning person, so getting up at 6:30am and rushing around getting myself ready and then Caleb, wears me out. But now when 8pm rolls around I'm grumbly and ready for bed! So most nights I was in bed by 9pm. But that's reasonable. As for the emotional side of things...it is very difficult. Monday wasn't so bad, but Tuesday was rough and Wednesday even harder. Thursday was o.k. because the end was in sight. Plus things weren't working out as I had thought in the workwise. My boss originally told me that I wouldn't have to start right into things, that she had a special project for me to do that I would work on for December. Well it turns out it's not as big as she thought and it will only take me a few days to do. So I was handed a folder of my normal work load which dated back to October! That was depressing. And it wasn't easy stuff, alot of it was crap that didn't get done because there was more worked involved! Ack! But on the good side of things, Caleb loves his sitter. She just is amazed at how well he does, even when it comes to naps, she puts him down and he's out, she loves that! He'll eat anything and try anything, which makes it easier too. Plus he loves watching the other kids and playing with their dog. So I'm so happy for that. She even sent us home with an event calendar with theme days and activity days so we know what he'll be up to. Tomorrow is Favourite Book Day, so we're sending him with "Crazy Caterpillers" one he currently loves looking at.
Plus my coworkers are thrilled to have me back. We've done lots of catch up and lots of laughing, so that's good.
This week is a crazy busy one! Caleb is turning one on Thursday! But that's my work party, so I won't get to see him much, but we're having his big bash on Sunday. Ahhh, so I have to get everything prepared for that, on top of work and everything, it's really tough! I have Friday off, but we're heading to O'ville for Caleb's dr. appt. and we'll stay for the day to see the family.
Anyway, I have a gut feeling that tomorrow is really going to be hard. So please pray for me...

Less Than 12 Hours

I don't know if any of you have experienced this feeling before. I feel like it's the night before the first day of school. I never liked school, so I always dreaded having to go back. I would get this anxious feeling down in my gut that just wasn't good. Well that's what I'm feeling now, but it's not about school obviously, it's about work. I have to start bright and early tomorrow at 7:30am. I guess it's not as bad as it was when I was younger, but it's just sad to think that my time as being a stay at home mom is over.

This past week I kept thinking about it all, and I tried to make the most of my few days. Dave took Thursday and Friday off, so Wednesday night we headed to Toronto and spent a couple of nights there and shopped. It was nice to get out and do stuff like that. I don't really like the city. This time, while walking to the Eaton Centre, a homeless man started walking with us, he kept looking at Caleb. Then he started to offer me a loonie and told me to get him so milk. I turned him down, and he just kept presisting. I didn't know how to get rid of him, so I ended up saying that he needed it more than we do. I guess it wasn't the most polite thing to say, and he ended up saying to me in an angry voice "you think you know my pocket troubles do you??" All I could do was apoligize. Toronto is definately a step out of my comfort zone, and I find myself clutching all my belongings much closer while I'm there.

We got a lot of shopping done. Caleb even got to sit on Santa's lap. He was a good boy and actually smiled for the photo. Yesterday was my work Christmas party for the kids. It was our first time going. It was a very simple party, Caleb didn't have much to do, we just waited for Santa and he got his present. He got a winnie the pooh phone and a bath toy. Then I didn't do much for the remaining part of the weekend. Last night Dave and I watched Transformers. It actually made me laugh out loud, probably wasn't supposed to be funny, but the whole time, I kept thinking "who knew this was going to be a comedy!"

I think I might go to bed early tonight. I have to get up earlier than I'm used to, and I'm a little afraid of how things will go, so hopefully sleeping on it will make things better. Sweet dreams, please!