Holiday Wrap-up

This year’s Christmas had a very late, slow start at the Marangella household. We didn’t get a tree until late last weekend (Max did the picking this year and I think someone forgot to tell him that we don’t live at Rockefeller Center, I’ll try to post a photo of this monster tree later) and our decorating was half-hearted and complicated by the fact that we couldn’t find a large part of our Christmas decorations in the garage. Due to the mammoth size of the tree I made so many trips to the store for lights I was afraid my photo would soon be posted at all of our local Targets with the description, “Beware of insane women still looking for Christmas lights on Christmas Eve.” This year everything seemed so last minute and rushed I’m not sure it ever really felt like Christmas. Our Christmases have always been loud, crowded affairs so this year’s small-scaled, quiet holiday was unusual. We did have a few visits from friends. Tory (of Room for Joy fame) and our friends from Central Christian Church stopped by with some presents and holiday treats to help us celebrate in style and Wendy (our favorite Child-Life Specialist from Phoenix Children’s) and her daughter Sydney joined us for Christmas lunch so we did have a bit of a social life which is a good thing because the rest of our weekend revolved mostly around doing absolutely nothing! In the end it was a good thing that we hadn’t planned on doing anything special because as is typical during any holiday with children Max has been down with a nasty cold since Friday. It seems that either Ellie or Max or both manage to get sick during any given school break. So far we have contained the outbreak to one patient – fingers crossed it remains that way!

Have a great week all!