Ivy Tied Up |

I’ve got a friend who hates the holidays. She can’t stand them. I’m normally right there with her. As I detest Holiday music. Can’t stand it. The noise of it is equivelant to scratching nails down a chalk board. Does this make me a scrooge? maybe. BUT i’m finding that there are alot of people out there just like me. They hear holiday music and their body starts to tense. The sound of it drives them crazy. They would rather sit through a 12 hour lecture about the reproductive organs on a rat than listen to christmas music. I am one of those people.

I do however hold my tongue and walk out of the room so that my kiddos may enjoy it. While I hate christmas music, I am a BIG fan of christmas cartoons. I watch them every year. Have since I was little. I even record them. There is just something about them. You have to watch them. Maybe its because it takes me back to being 6 years old when nothing was wrong. No cares, no worries, no regrets, I was just a six year old lil girl enjoying her christmas. I’ll even dress up in a santa hat and dance around the living room with my kids while singing Frosty the snowman. Yet I still hate christmas music.

What does that tell ya? That tells you that my kids happiness comes first. Even when its something I hate. My feelings are put aside for their pleasure.. LOL That happened this past sunday. Well kinda anyhow..LOL..

Me, I hate being held down, I cant stand to be restrained. It brings something out in me that makes me really suddenly very strong. Well Sunday came and my Kids and husband decided that they would wrestle me down and jump on me. They thought it would be fun to see if they could hold mommy down and tickle her. Well their fun.. Wasnt fun for me. I tried to get up. And when I did.. I lifted my head up and ended up running right into dh’s head with mine. And let me tell you! OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve got a black eye! Well that was on sunday and it still hurts today. The swelling has gone down alot and the bruising has faded to where you can barely see it. But it still hurts. I’ve had a non stop headache since that happened. Today is really bad. the last two days when i’d close my eye. I could feel it pulling on the swollen part and it would start to throb. That was my first REAL black eye.. And I never want another one again. When it happened it knocked me loopy. I really think I saw stars or birds or whatever. For about 10 minutes I didnt know where I was. It didnt hurt so bad sunday night but when I woke up monday morning.. Thats when the real pain begin.. Just putting lotion on my face felt like my eye was going to pop out. Its getting better though! now if only this headache would go away..

The cold weather has finally hit SE Texas. My kids don’t understand how we go from 85 to 35. They wore shorts this past week and now i’m forcing my kids into sweats, sweat shirts, and jackets. My oldest pitches a fit each morning about it not being cold outside. I have to force her into warm clothes and then once she is outside she finally realizes its kinda chilly! She outgrew all her warm clothes. i had to go to the store last night and buy her some shirts to wear under her tshirts ands ome more sweats. Just so she could make it the rest of the week. We are suppose to hit 20s friday. And have ice possible sleet thursday. I’m not looking forward to this.. This just isnt something we are familiar with. We do hit the teens occassionally during the winter. But its certainly not something that happens often.

I found out my houseguest will be back this weekend.. Oh what I have to look forward too. I made plans for one night this weekend though. I called my mom and asked her to babysit for a few hours friday or saturday night. I’m goign out to eat. With or with out DH. We havent been out to eat in about a year. Dh said we don’t have the money. And technically he is right. BUT Ive got a gift certificate i had gotten for my bday this year (In JAN). I think its time I use it. So he can go or he can stay home. If he doesnt go I’ll go with my best friend. One way or another i’m getting out of this house and going to have steak at a place I Dont have to cook it. And maybe a strawberry daq or two or three or four.

Have a good day!
Ivy