My holiday update

Good evening everyone. I know it has been a while since I have been able to write in here and I have lots to say so I will just get on with it.

My last entry came before Christmas and I have to say that my break was not near long enough. It never is. But I have to say that it was very much fun. Who knew that having a child would make the holidays seem so much more enjoyable? I guess other parents would know, but whatever...

So we got to Argusville, ND on Friday December 22nd. It took forever to get out of the cities but that was because there was some kind of accident by the Rogers exit. It was making Sonny mad because we sat in one spot for like 15 or more minutes and it took us longer to move a mile. He was crabby about it, but I was trying to ease his mind.

We got to Argusville and had about an hour to spend with Grandma and Nils before supper was ready. I had offered to give Nils the option to not have to cook, but he felt like cooking and so we had pork chops, potatoes, gravy, corn and beans. It was a really good homecooked meal.

Saturday, my aunt Mic and uncle Mark showed up at 8 am to see the baby. Then my family was there by noon (also to see the baby). But I wouldn't let anyone wake him up because he was tired and he was in a strange place and he might freak out if random people go wake him up.

Everyone wanted him to open gifts as soon as they got there. I wouldn't let them let him. Lukin didn't know what day it was (or wasn't) so he could wait. There will be plenty of that 'can I open the presents yet?' stuff in years to come.

I had been worried about the fact that Sonny and I had only bought Lukin clothes and that we didn't buy him any toys. Man was that a stupid worry. Everyone and their dog bought him a present. I suppose it's the thing to do with a new baby. It's probably fun to buy for a baby. It's probably easier that trying to buy for an adolescent or an adult. Maybe that's why we had such trouble getting everything in the car to come home.

Actually, I have to backtrack and say that we had a bit of trouble getting everything in the car to go up to ND for Christmas. What can I say? I have always gone a little ape at Christmastime. I don't think that is any different now that I have a husband and child. Even though that just meant more presents from them and to them.

Lukin got a high chair. I was happy. He also got a walker thing from Grandma and Nils but we said they could take it back (and they just gave us the money) because we want one that is stationary. We don't want him to have bad hips or legs from a walker. We haven't gotten one for him yet, and I will explain why shortly.

Lukin gots tons of toys, like I mentioned. He also gots lots of cute little outfits. It was cute to watch him go through the different Christmases with the families because the more we had, the more he seemed to get what to do when you put a present in front of him.

Now, even though he got some nice expensive things, my personal favorite gift that he got was something that I picked up for him as an afterthought at the Dollar Store. It was bubbles. It was so cute to watch his expression as he saw the bubbles for the first time and to watch him figure out that when I breathed in, there was going to be more bubbles. It was cute to watch him shake with excitement, almost like a seizure, when he saw the bubbles first come out of the wand. I loved that. It was precious. Stacie even got it on film but had to erase it because her new camera didn't have enough memory to store the video for that and other pictures. I got some still photos but I will remember it in my memories for years to come.

Now, Lukin wasn't the only one who got things for Christmas. I also got some nice things as did Sonny. It's just that we are a) grown ups and b) people want to know more about what Lukin got. People care about your first Christmas, not so much about your 30th and 39th. And if he should happen to read this, I do love the Opal necklace that I got from Sonny, contrary to what he might believe.

After Christmas, we did the whole shopping the day after thing. That is always one of those things that I can never figure out. Why do we submit ourselves to the chaos that is the malls the day after Christmas? It's like going there the day after Thanksgiving. We would never do that. We're nuts I guess.

So, Sonny felt it was his duty to entertain Stacie's boyfriend who had spent the holidays with us. So he asked if he could take him to BWW for a beer and some sports instead of being bored sitting at the mall while the girls shopped. So we let them. But I have to say, I didn't have a problem with it like everyone thought I did (letting Sonny go). However, Stacie was the one who was freaking out later when the boys tried to tell us they had two beers (when they really had 4, 22 oz-ers). It made for an interesting end to the boyfriend at Christmas experience.

We spent a couple days in Cavalier before taking Sonny to GF to go to the airport to come back to the cities to work so he could come back for our anniversary. Actually, he was just there overnight on Wednesday. I stayed until Saturday. Then I headed to GF to hang out with Amanda for a night before Sonny came back and we celebrated New Year's (and our anniversary) together. Lukin spent the weekend with Grandma and Grandpa Spangelo.

Amanda and I had fun dinking around, as we normally do. But it sure snowed a lot and that made for an interesting day and evening. I went shopping and she worked and then we went looking at Christmas lights (a tradition of ours). Then we went back to Amanda's and hung out until we were too tired to visit anymore and went to sleep til morning. Amanda's mom made us Huevos Rancheros for breakfast and Amanda made me those two one cookies with the oatmeal and the chocolate. It was a pretty fun day.

More later...