Christmas Break '08

One of the many perks to being a teacher (besides the ginormous salary) is getting two weeks off for Christmas break. This has been one for the books. Allow me to attempt to relive it for you. Day one of break: Stacy, Kevin and Viv are here. Kids are extatic! (Sammy hates sharing Grandma!)Day two: more family fun!

Day three: I host the first annual Huggins women cookie get together. Food, fun, and cookies, what more can you ask for?

Day four: come down from the sugar high. Staci and Eddie in town from Boston!
Day five: after a fun-filled day at Crown Center come home to find water running down my driveway on an otherwise dry day. Hmmm...(I thought to myself calmly) this isn't right. Enter my house to find rain. Wait a minute...rain? Inside? Oh, yeah, definitely not supposed to be happening! Have a slight coniption fit, remember I have children in the car. Plant them on the couch, call Dad, call Ryan, call Insurance company.

Evening five: My sister attempts to drown my sorrows with tequila but I abstain. I just cry a lot instead.

Day 6-11: avoid the fact that my house has flooded, move to my parents, have a wonderful Christmas, have every meal cooked for us, laundry done for us, and set up shop in our little apartment in the basement.

Day 10: Along with cousins and aunts and uncles, have Grandma's 80th surprise birthday party.
Day 13-present: See blog post below. I can't post those pics again.So here we are. Two days before we go back to school. We're discovering more wet spots in the house. They tore out cabinets in the basement today. Ryan, Dad and Greg (Staci's dad) busted their butts today working again. Thank God for good people to help and thank God for family to surround us! As Grandma Moore told me on Christmas Eve, "This too, shall pass."

Until then...just look at the kids!! How can you keep from smiling?