Christmas Eve

The plan was to celebrate Christmas with Pat's family on Christmas Eve so we could all be together before his brother had to fly out. It worked out except for the part where I was horribly sick and was so scared of infecting everyone that I mostly quarantined myself upstairs. I wandered down a couple times and sat halfway down the stairs so I could talk to everyone in between the times where I needed to lie down because I was so nauseated (it still feels like I should write nauseous there but it would be totally incorrect!). The kids were excited to hang out with everyone and very proud to hand out their homemade gifts!