Postby Kathryn-in-Canada » Sun Dec 23, 2018 10:07 pm
Long Day. I'm exhausted now. Finally booting up the computer to post. Loved the Christmas Chaos story. I could imagine it all happening! And selfishly was thinking, glad it isn't me this is happening to!
Slept in a bit, then scrambled to get off to church on time. Made it and sat with a friend from the refugee committee. I love the city church and it was a wonderful service. Given that I won't get to any Christmas service this year, I'm glad I made the push. And it was a push. I skipped my light therapy in order to have time.
I managed to start some chicken stock in the crock pot. I had 4 carcasses in the freezer and by cooking up 2, freed up some space. The stock will take less room than the carcasses.
Dh chose to do his exercising and stay home from church for a more relaxed morning.
I was only gone about 90 minutes (another plus for the city church, it is 10 minutes away.)
I came home and discovered dh still in his dressing gown. He lost track of time and failed to shave, shower, dress or eat breakfast while I was gone. Dd was expecting us asap but he had also forgotten that we were to go over today after church.
She was holding lunch for us so he skipped everything but the getting dressed part and we went over. Had a nice lunch, played for a few hours with dgs, he went for a short nap and I cleaned a china cabinet (just 5 small shelves of items), washing everything, dusting and putting everything back. That way we can use dsil's penguin glasses at Christmas dinner.
Dd and I also had a tea and lemon square break. Then dsil and I finished planning the next 3 days. What food is needed, who is cooking what and our expectations for the few days.
When dgs woke up again, I played for another hour with him. Then we headed to Costco. The parking lot is terrible at that location and the aisles were overfull with shoppers. Even so, through luck (great parking spot by the door) and planning (detailed list of just the important staples), we were in and out of the parking lot in 32 minutes with everything on the list.
At home, the apartment smelled wonderful because of the stock. We had leftover shepherd's pie for supper (also from the freezer) and I made up a terrible toffee/cracker recipe. I will remove the recipe from my book (I've made it before and don't recall it being so vile) but it is made now with several adventures along the way, none happy.
After dinner I cleaned up the kitchen (there was chocolate everywhere and dh hates chocolate) and cleaned up the soup stock and readied it for the freezer. It is on the balcony now, cooling/freezing (it will be 10*F tonight.) The toffee is broken up and in a cooler on the balcony (shouldn't freeze in the cooler, but if it does, it will be fine.)
Dh is making dip for Wednesday now.
I had thought about skipping church and doing prep (like wrapping) and dh asked what he could do. At first I said nothing, then remembered he could prep the card for the super and cleaner, and repair another chair, and make the dip. None of those things have been done yet today. I'll do the card for the cleaner and super.
Dd is having a hard time with dgs being indecisive. She'll give him a choice, either option is fine and he'll keep oscillating between the two getting more and more distressed. She's warned me about this behaviour and others since I'll have him a lot in the next week.
She said he had a meltdown at the library. He was looking at 10 books, could choose some to take home and the rest go into a special return slot (so the staff can count how many books are looked at within the library.) He took all 10 and put them in the slot, then got upset because there were none to come home. They picked two more, dd checked them out, then he took them and instead of going outside, put those in the slot. And started fussing because he wanted them back. She left with a fussy child she tied into the stroller and then walked and walked until he fell asleep.
He cried when it was nap time and had what I thought was a short nap (40 minutes.) If he only naps 40 minutes all day, I'm not sure I'll be able to manage him on my own. I need more downtime than that. Dh spent a lot of time reading with him today because, to be honest, I'm tired of the current rotation of books from the library. Even so I read them to him twice (and dh twice.)