A Few Hours Out

I have really needed a break. The older the kids get the less breaks I need. Today I had to have one. We have been couped up inside for too long. There's never much to do in the winter. The weather has been nasty and everyone is always sick. The kids are not sick now but Woodstock has been SUPER whiny. It's gotten so bad that Stinkerbell has been walking around saying, stop whining. I needed to buy some Christmas presents and thought today would be a good day to leave the hubby with the kids and go out for a while. You might be wondering why I'm buying Christmas presents after Christmas. That's when everything is on sale and we don't see our family until after Christmas. It works out well. I went to Lifeway and bought some presents then went to Old Navy and bought the hubby and I some pants and then went to Barnes and Noble. I had some reading I needed to catch up on and some presents to buy there. It was a win win. I'm reading the Bible through in a year. I don't think I'm going to make it. I did good until this past summer. All that to say I have three months to read in five days. But I read for a while and drank some great hot cocoa. I love hot cocoa. I realized that I am bad at relaxing. The whole time I was gone today I couldn't stop worrying. Not about the kids being o.k. I just kept thinking how I hoped they were behaving and not stressing my hubby out and how I hoped everything went well and everyone was happy when I got home. I don't leave them very much but there is nothing worse to me than coming home to whiny kids and stressed out hubby. It gets me stressed when he is. I guess it's a good thing I don't work while he stays at home with the kids. I'm much better when I'm the stressed one and he's the calm one. Plus it takes me more to get stressed. I'm rambling....I'm just in that kind of mood. The day out was nice but I wish I could relax more. After I left Barnes and Noble I had to go to Target to buy a few things. It had been raining and was really wet outside. I walked out and was holding for bags in one hand and a thing of paper towels in the other. I came to the end of the side walk where there were two minivans pointing right at me and they were both full. I know this because I made eye contact with everyone right before I busted my butt. Technically, it was my knees. I stepped of the curb and went straight forward. I dropped everything and skinned up my knees. A lady that was in one of the minivans opened her door to ask if I was o.k. I said yes but just embarrassed. I think falling is always funny and I was laughing at myself but it's always extra embarrassing when it's in front of a lot of other people and no one else is laughing. They were all just staring at me with that whole "blesss your heart" look. I got home, skinned knees and all, at about 5:00 p.m. The kids and the hubby were all happy and fed. After all of this excitement I started to take all of our Christmas stuff down. I get just as excited about taking Christmas stuff down as I do putting it up. I'm always ready for it to be gone. Woodstock started getting upset. He said it wasn't Christmas yet. I told him it was yesterday when we opened all the presents and everything. He started crying and said we hadn't gone up to heaven to sing happy birthday to Jesus yet. I thought it was cute a while ago when he said he wanted to go to heaven to sing happy birthday to Jesus. I just left it alone then and didn't think much about it. Now I realized I should of explained how we can't go up to heaven. There were a lot of tears and a lot of explaining. I finally got things o.k. by telling him Jesus is watching him and could hear him sing happy birthday to Him. It was pretty cute though. Even though it was sad. Through his tears he told me that Angels could fly and they could come get us. After everything got happy again he would go to the window to see if he could see Jesus looking at us. I'm going to have to have the preacher on speed dial with this child. He keeps us on our toes!