Day 12...

Cleaned up my red room today. Had a pile of presents under a burgundy blanket for two weeks now. Kids new they were there (I was testing their self-control--or maybe torture is the right word?). Hee Hee....anyway, I decided to wrap them all and place them under the tree. They were met with a big round of excitment (which I caught on my flip video camera!).

This was supposed to be our party night. With Juan getting sick though, we had to call it off. We were very disappointed not to get to see our dear friends, but we knew Daddy needed this time to get better. Scabs are there now, so he is not contagious anymore, but now it looks like he took a bad fall bike riding and skidded his face across the pavement. He was craving a meal out last night though, so we ventured to a restaurant we all liked, and then, with the light rain falling all around us, on the way home we drove around Ladera and looked at Christmas lights. Not as many as last year, but the home that did put up lights, went all out, more than usual. It was not our Christmas party, but we were together, and that was nice.