In Denial?

K has a bit of a runny nose and cough, so I stayed home from church today with her. I went over to take the sacrament with the 9:30 ward, then came back home to get kids ready for church. I took Lily over to practice clarinet number at 10:15 and then hurried back home again to write Peter's primary talk. Kids got ready, K was awake and quite sad when I didn't let her go to church. She likes to "play toys" in the nursery.

Corey's been doing a lot to plan our family trip to Florida. I have not been any help. I think I'm overwhelmed or in denial. I can't (and have not been trying) to wrap my head around it. I'm stuck cause I'm not sure if we are doing something here before we leave or not? Like are we having two Christmas present opening events? What do we do for at tree there? Stockings? And I don't even want to think about food. I'm not great at planning meals in general, let alone for everyone while we are on vacation in a hotel without of our own kitchen pantry and basic stash of ingredients. AND our plane lands Christmas eve after Costco closes, ugh. We're pretty sure Walmart is still open. Joseph and Eliza land before us, they might go by there to get stocked up for two days. Maybe I'll make a late evening trip there too. Anyway, I'm in a bit of a state of paralysis. PMS isn't helping. (Can we all just have dried fruit and nuts and/or fast for those first 48 hours? Why do people always need to eat anyway?)

So that's me and my feeling today. Something funny today that represents how oblivious the kids are to what the parents and adults are experiencing: Tonight in an effort to be holy, Corey put the Messiah  on the tv and it was playing in the background. After 30 min or so, Daniel is walking past me and turns to say with exasperation "Can we turn that OFF?!?! It's so annoying!" Then the three boys proceeded to scream and yell and run around the main floor. Quite ironic for them to be the ones complaining about annoying noises.

Natalie joined in their playing a little bit. She was doing a "slipper" scene with Daniel ~ "IT FITS!!" since Katharine watches Cinderella 

Kids are fun, and they are good kids too. Sigh, I just need to relax and keep telling myself that there is no need to stress about Christmas. The kids will have good memories. We still have a week, so I have time to get things ready. Hopefully my desire to do that will kick in soon. First task at hand is to finish the calendar school year. Sophi, Natalie, and Owen have a performance at Jordan Valley tomorrow that I'll need to check them out of school for. I really wish Corey's car wasn't in the shop. It's been there for two weeks, not done yet, so I'm glad we have Joseph and Eliza's car, and we also have Ethan's car at the moment, the ol' Fiesta in the driveway. Corey was like "ugh.... I thought we got rid of that!" haha.