The Christmas Virus!

Would you expect anything else from the Graber household? I mean, seriously? We all normally get something strange right around the time Paul is to go out of town on business, or when the inlaws come to visit. Yeah, inlaws are in, and you guessed it! Caleb slowly opens all presents, throws them to the side before even seeing what they are, and then spends most of the morning in the bathroom. His stomach is cramping so bad that we could hardly hear the holiday music for all of the "OOOOOHHHHHs!" coming from my poor sick child. Luckily, it was only the "stomach" thing and he was ready to ride his bike by the afternoon. Bailey, however, was now running a temp and saying her tummy hurt. She threw up all over our new comforter(which has to be dry cleaned) and couldn't get to the bathroom fast enough before the "stomach" part started hitting. It hit, and hit, and hit, and just slowed down tonight. Paul has been on the couch every since he helped me clean her up the first night, and now is full-fledged into the virus himself! Keaton has been congested since Christmas Eve and started screaming last night with an ear ache. Of course, I haven't gotten much sleep just because of Mommy Duty, running back and forth from bathroom to bathroom...dishing out wet wipes, tylenol, and ear medicine, and now my stomach is beginning to rumble. :) Lovely!!! The inlaws are loaded up on Vitamin C and Lysol Spray in hopes of not contracting this ugly little bug. Merry Christmas Grabers!

SNOW in TEXAS!

Yes, you heard right. I can't believe it either, but it happened...finally happened. We woke to 3-4 inches of snow yesterday. For those of you not from this area, you have to understand that this just does NOT happen where we live. If the weathermen do say something related to the "S" word, they are in major trouble because the news station's phone lines will be busy all day. Honestly, they don't actually say "SNOW," but they say, "there is a slight possibility of the 's' word". Funny. Well anyway, their forecast was right on yesterday. However, they said that it would be just a light dusting, and that it would melt off by morning. Wrong! It didn't completely leave until 1:30 and we had a day full of making memories. The whole neighborhood was out by 6:15 a.m...children and adults, as well, all throwing snowballs and making snowmen! What a sight it was. We went through 4 changes of wet clothes, because you know we will all be sick, and so I have lots of extra laundry today. But, it was well worth it. Makes me miss the Chicago area even more. We will take 3-4 inches ANY time. There is a Santa after all!

Bailey's gift

I just love the "Holly" station on our XM radio. We have listened to it quite a bit here lately. Caleb and I had a deep discussion, (as accustomed with Caleb) when he realized that the little drummer boy had nothing to bring to baby Jesus. The girls were with us at the time, and through all of the bickering between them, they must have listen too. Yesterday, I overheard Bailey singing...she was in the living room just playing as if she were in her own little world and singing her own rendition of "Little Drummer Boy."

This is what I heard...

"...this gift I bring to you, Barack-O-Bama." :)

I laughed so hard that I cried! It has been the topic of conversation today. With that, I hope this isn't the verse that gets stuck in your head like it is in mine.