National Lampoons Christmas vacation...our style

Oyi what a week.  It has been a doozie.  After our picture perfect tree trip, a fun Christmas program at church on Sunday...the fun really began.  Monday morning started with the tween complaining of a sore throat.  Yay, buck up little camper...you can make it, take a tylenol and soldier on.  Said tween returns from school, still feeling crummy.  Take said tween to the MD on Tuesday afternoon.  Is it strep again?  Could it be mono? (oh nooo)  Low and behold, it is strep again.  Huge dose of antibiotics and he is repaired.  Wed, middle man complains of sore throat...another one bites the dust...more antibiotics for him, more days of children home when they belong in school, more days of mom not getting anything done because said children needing mommy.  I need me in triplicate!

This week, Toddler enters full toddler-hood.  OH.MY. GOODNESS.  Girl toddlers are way different than boy toddlers...they have this whole diva thing going on.  Said toddler has decided her attention grabbing action of choice is to melt, lay herself down on the floor and refuse any request mom might make.  It is lovely.  We have tried out the floor at the Y, the aisles of Target, the parquet on in the sanctuary at church, the kitchen floor, and the snowy parking lot at work.  Oh lovely!  She also isn't sleeping, unless she is twirling her toddler-diva-self in mom and dad's bed.  It is making for a sleep deprived, rescoures tapped out mama.

The other silly of the week...11:30 at night, mom hears a crash in the living room.  All living beings are accounted for.  Gravity struck the Christmas tree and it was laying on the couch, water all over the floor, along with ornament bits and pieces.  Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree...

On the up side, I  only have one day left of work, then have 2 weeks off.  Stinks for the pay check, but great for the sanity!  (The new job I am going after still doesn't have an official application...keep praying)  So I can finally START Christmas shopping.  Yes, I know, Christmas is coming very soon! 

So Dear Santa,
Please bring me some sanity, wrapped up in a little sleep, with a lovely new job and salaried paycheck on top...oh and if there is any room left, a wand that will  turn the diva back into a sweet princess and eradicate all germs from the house.  Please Santa, I have been a really, really good girl!