Finally!

Our board game haul for the year, before it was opened.

We're going to be celebrating Christmas this weekend!  Oldest son and his lovely wife are traveling today to come see us.  We're excited.  On actual Christmas eve this year, we opened some board games, but that was all and I had to work so much this week, that we only got to play one of them.  We got Coup Rebellion (the only one we've played so far) another Coup expansion I can't remember the name of,  Betrayal at House on the Hill, Magic Maze and Hanabi.   This week, I'm off work and they will be here, so we're going to open the rest of our presents and stockings and take some time to play all the games and eat some junk food.  My daughter in law is a great cook and she's bringing cookies and things like that.  She's also going to make her wonderful Mac and Cheese for us.  I'm not going to worry about any calories this week.  It's going to be awesome.

The first game we played was really fun, Coup Rebellion.

The only black cloud on the horizon for us, is that Freckles had surgery the day before yesterday and the wound is not looking great and may be infected.  I'm very worried about her.  We've had her in a crate in the living room since Thursday and she does fine in there with everyone else in the room, but when I come in there, she gets all excited and starts panting and coughing, because she wants me to let her out.  It's pretty heartbreaking.  Hopefully, she'll be okay.  I'm hoping the vet will give her an antibiotic shot today as well as some meds to bring home.  My daughter is handling all the medicine giving and carrying Freckles outside and all of that, because she's wonderful that way and because I can't handle it when one of the dogs has an issue like this.  I don't know why.  When the kids were little, I always did all of this stuff, dealing with broken bones (5 times!), ER visits, cutting the cornea (although that one did make me very squeamish!) and all of that, when it's a pet I can't communicate with, I get all upset.

This is the first page of many, many, many pages of notes that I have to use when I work my co-worker's job.  It's a lot to keep up with, plus the phone interrupts every single thing you try to do, about 50 times.   It's not fun. 

Speaking of my wonderful daughter, my whole family has been so great this week.  I've been working long days, (doing someone else's job that I'm not as familiar with) and with the commute, being gone 11 hours a day and they've grocery shopped and cleaned and taken care of the dog and made me cookies and mashed potatoes. They are the BEST.  They surprised me with some mint chocolate chip cookies the other day that were out of this world. (I love peppermint everything!).  I am amazingly blessed.

Happy New Year everyone from our house, where we're a little behind and still Christmas-ing!