It is what it is

Adjusting to all the quiet time. Andrew and Bryce left Friday.  Amanda is here a couple more days but everyone is probably ready to wind down and get back to normal.  Whatever that is in the Dobos household!  Enjoying our time playing Scrabble, watching Modern Family, movies (I think we have watched 4 now) and mostly yakking!   The list of to-dos when she is home is long and we never get it all done!  Lucy has enjoyed our down time on our laps...smelly beagle! My brother is still in the hospital but headed to a nursing facility for some re-hab and continued improvement.  He has a long way to go but with a team of doctors and the right medications, he should improve.  Going to see him Tuesday.  Will stop and see my other brother and his family.  Hopefully the weather improves. Quiet a Christmas.  Andrew fell down the stairs (all the stupid stuffed animals on the stairs are not conducive to travel up and down them I guess!), broke a cha...

Dark dreary Christmas Eve morning.  Rain, dismal but the lights look great.  Otto is at work, Brian in LA, Bryce, Andrew & Amanda are taking a long winter's nap (not up yet) and Matt, Dana & Hannah never made it from Chicago.  Traffic was so bad last Friday, they turned around and went home!  We opened our Secret Elf gifts via Face Time.  Our Christmas gift exchange is over except for stockings in the morning.  (What Lucy didn't eat of the summer sausage that was wrapped for Otto).  Just ornament exchange and silly candy etc.  Looking forward to Christmas Eve service tonight.  We will re-do another Christmas meal, much like Sundays before Brian left.  What a mixed up holiday!  Grandma even went to Vermont!   Very fun though.  It is nice not to have to be spending this time running crazy and frantic wrapping (we did all that Friday and ALL day Saturday, cooking on Sunday).  It has been a little slower pace. ...

Spent the day doing decorating inside and some outside because it was over 50 degrees.  Feel like it is the calm before the storm!!!  Schoolwork, grades for progress reports are DONE!   Lucy had a bath in the basement and I had to change my clothes!   Haircut, manicure, shopping, decorating, church, cleaning....scheduling, hosting, Christmas is EXHAUSTING!!!!   It is what it is!