Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I hope that you had an enjoyable one! Our Thanksgiving was a bit of a struggle for me this year. I am not sure if it is because I am completely miserable with being sick and pregnant, the fact that I have a short fuse, or something else. I am glad that I got to spend time with family and am hoping that things will get back to normal sometime soon.

Last night I must have woken up about 10 times. At one point around 1:00 in the morning I said forget it and decided that I was going to watch a movie. Well Hancock was on so I watched it until 4:00. In the middle of my movie I must have woken Aydan up (with my hacking and coughing), because he came in the living room and watched it with me for a little bit before falling back to sleep. At 4:00 I decided I better lay back down and try to get some sleep or Thanksgiving was going to be a bummer for me. After tossing and turning on the couch and recliner I finally fell back asleep around 4:45.

Aydan woke up at 7:00 ripping and roaring to go, so I was back up then. An hour later it was time to get him and I in the shower so that we could make it out to the first Thanksgiving festivities. We all loaded up in the truck and headed over to Memaw's and Pepaw's to drop the dogs off for the day.

Then off to Clint's parents house. The ride out there was not bad at all Aydan was in a good mood and watched his movie patiently in the back seat. When we arrived there I was miserable! I could not breath, my stomach was flipping, my head pounding, etc. I think you get the idea. At any rate I was not a happy camper and I am sure that everyone noticed. We ate Thanksgiving dinner and enjoyed every ones company...then quickly packed up to make the next Thanksgiving festivities.

Well the fun began. Aydan was not happy at all that he had to get back in his car seat, but he quickly settled down and realized that he was ready for a nap. About 25 minutes from my parents house he wakes up screaming and crying. To the point that he made himself sick before we could stop and pull over to help him out. Lovely...so we pulled over at a gas station to clean him and the car seat up. Then threw him back into his car seat (you can imagine how well that blew over) to finish up the trip to my parents.

Finally get to my parents house with a 1/2 naked child, along with a cranky mom and dad. Unload Aydan into the house to discover that we have woken up my nephew Gavin. Which does not settle too well with my sister-in-law...so she takes Gavin for a car ride in hopes of him falling back asleep. Clint works on getting Aydan to lay back down for a nap while I try to help mom with the last minute cooking things. Not a good idea at any rate because I spilt boiling hot water from the potatoes on my stomach which left another lovely mark.

At any rate we make it to 5:00 when my sister-in-law, nephew Gavin, and Aunt Betsy make it to the house. We sit down for dinner (all but Clint and Aydan because they finally fell asleep) and begin to eat. Dinner was great and the conversation was as well. About 1/2 way through dinner Gavin decides he needs out of his highchair and goes and wakes Aydan up. The fun begins again...Aydan is crying because he is still exhausted, I'm still cranky...and my fuse is slowly getting shorter and shorter with the day as a whole.

Well I had about all the fun that I could handle at about 7:30. So I told Clint to grab Aydan while I grabbed the girls and that we were going home. Got home put Aydan in his jammies and worked on him going to sleep. Currently Aydan and Clint are sleeping and I am still steaming.

LOL It is the holidays and I still cannot figure out why we do this stuff to each other. We work hard and prepare the perfect meal to sit down and enjoy with our family and friends and by the time it is all said and done everyone is tired and cranky. We spread ourselves out so thin that we cannot truly enjoy ourselves at one place. Spend most of the time in the car getting from one place to another...while riding quietly with the ones that we love most. Is it truly worth it...? I know I sound like a Scrooge, and I am hoping that it passes soon. At any rate Happy Thanksgiving to everyone...and I do TRULY LOVE MY FAMILY! Things just were a little bit overwhelming for me this year.