I reached my 13 week of pregnancy mark on Dec. 13th, which was also my birthday.
We had our church Christmas program the same day.
Oh, and also our Sunday school class Christmas party.
We had a full day, which, in all honesty, is fine with me. The "older" I get, the less I care about making my birthday a big to-do. I actually don't know if I've ever really wanted a huge fuss over my birthday. Probably because that's how my family has always treated birthdays. They are special days, where you definitely feel loved, but it's no parade with fireworks.
And I'm fine with that.
Back to Sunday,
We had our Christmas program at church. The day before, my mom had bought us all tickets for The Living Christmas Tree at First Baptist in Little Rock. It was fantastic and I'm glad that most of our family (minus Logan and Morgan- boo to finals!) was able to come and enjoy it together. I teared up a couple times - it doesn't take much lately - but the choir was SO good. I am a sucker for the old Christmas classics.
We ate at Chuy's (my pick) after the show. My dad was the only one that had never been there and I do believe that he enjoyed himself. ;)
My baby brother Clark had to go back to OBU after dinner because he had to study for finals coming up, and when he told me to have a happy birthday and that he'd see me soon, I had to quickly say goodbye because I almost lost it again in the parking lot.
baby brother
These pregnancy hormones, YALL :|
Oh, yeah….our Christmas program.
I think it went well, despite my husband saying that a few of the songs were a little long (insert eye-roll here). We had several testimonies shared…they were tear-jerkers….and I'm not just saying that because I am hormonal, because even grown men in the church were wiping their eyes.
I was a hot mess by the time the second service ended. A HOT MESS.
I'm sure the video will be attractive LOL!
That afternoon, we had our SS class Christmas party. It's always fun to get together with that group. The only "negative" thing is that our class has grown so much in the past few months, that is hard for me to remember everyones name and what they do and which kid belongs to which family. I blame pregnancy brain… I think it's a real thing. But our party went well, we played dirty santa/white elephant, and ate some delicious food.
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Monday morning rolled around and I did not feel good, but I went to work anyway.
Monday evening came and I was miserable.
I had "caught" a cold.
Tuesday and Wednesday were not pretty days. I decided to call into work on Thursday because I felt like I did not need to go in sneezing and with a hacking cough when I have to work with sick babies. SOME people I work with don't care about that, because either they don't want to miss work or they simply can't afford to miss work. But it still irks me because I feel like everyone is just passing it from one person to the next.
But I digress…
As I'm typing this, it's Friday. I work Sat-Mon and so I am praying that I can just make it through the next three days without getting worse and hopefully all this sinus mess will finally go away. I am already feeling like I can almost breathe normally again, so here's to getting well!
I hope the {few} that read this are staying happy and healthy this week!
'Tis the Season,
Holly
