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As most of you know… we don’t celebrate christmas for religious reasons (we are Jehovah Witnesses). Glenn and I still go to Christmas dinner at my grandparents houses. Forest’s side doesn’t celebrate it either.

I had to finish cooking my tator tot hot-dish for the dinner… That’s the dish that I bring to all the Jones get togethers. Meanwhile Glenn is being awful quiet. I go and see what he is doing and he is coloring on my walls with crayons. (Not that big of a deal! Adds character to the house). I take the crayon away and give him a couple of gifts to open. He got some tools. A drill, skill-saw, and grinder. Along with the hammers and other tools that came in the sets with it.

Now I go back to cooking. Toss everything together and put it in the oven. Get a bath ready for Glenn, Not sure what he got into, but he is very filthy already! Meanwhile he’s throwing a tantrum because he wants to play with his new toys. Get him clean, take him out of the bath and send him into the living room while I get him some clean cloths. Get the cloths on him, now where are his shoes! I just had them before I put him in the bath, phone rings… answer that. It’s my MIL. talk to her for a couple of min. Back to finding his shoes. Glenn runs by me. His cloths are off again! Find where he put his cloths, get them back on him. Now I ask Glenn where his shoes are. He tells me that he hid them so we would have to stay home. I tell him that if he doesn’t get his shoes, so we can go he won’t be getting anymore presents. So he decides he wants to go and gets his shoes from under his bed and behind the couch. Now he’s ready to go. Grab my camera because Grandma Thacker asked me to bring it. She wants family pictures taken.  Can’t find my phone. I ask Glenn where my phone is. He says in the house. We go back in the house and he points in the cabinet. Why in the world would it be in there??? Open the cabinet and sure enough that’s where my phone sits! I must have set it there after I put the pen back when I hung up from talking to my mil. We are now a half our late!

Get to my Grandma Jones’ house. I see my nephew Freddie and realize that I forgot his present at home. Great! Oh well, I’ll give it to him next time I see him. Glenn opens more presents. After a couple of hours he was playing in the basement with the other kids. Then we here a little kid fall down the steps and is screaming. It was my 2 year old cousin (Glenn’s 2nd cousin, I’m the oldest grandkid out of 23 grandkids on that side.) Luckily she didn’t fall very far and didn’t land on the cement. After her mom brings her up and is holding her, Glenn comes over to me and says “Mommy! I pushed that little girl down!!!” He looked and sounded to proud of himself. I remove him from the crowd and put him in time out then have a long talk with him. Dad forgot his cell phone and asks me to bring it to the other grandma’s when I go and asks me to pick up the Ford kids so he won’t have to drive back to get them later.  Stop and pick them up on my way through and realise that there are 4 kids that are coming with me. I only can legally seat 3 more people in my explorer. I wound up putting the smaller girls in the middle seat-belt in back. I don’t like doing that, but don’t have much choice.

On the 30 mile drive to my other grandma’s house I’m trying to keep Glenn from spitting on the girls in the back. The roads are a little slick and it’s snowing pretty good, so my top speed is 40.

After we get to my Grandma Thacker’s, Glenn gets more presents and we eat more food. Then the kids are playing and Glenn decides to beat up Freddie. Pull him off Freddie and tell him that it’s not nice and if he does it again he will have to go out in time-out. Glenn talks Freddie into going into the bedroom with him and proceeds to start beating him up again. Pull Glenn off again and put him in time-out. The whole time he is in time-out he is crying and screaming that he wants to be good, and won’t do it again! So of course I’m getting nasty looks from everyone and one of them tells me to give him a break, it’s christmas. After his timeout was done he was pretty good. He wanted to play brad dolls with the girls, but they wouldn’t let him.

Now it’s time to take pictures and I get my camera ready and turn it on. Then is says it needs a memory card. I open the spot and see the card is gone. I look in the camera bag and can’t find it. Then I realise that it’s in my printer, because I was taking pictures off it the night before ( I have to get a new cable for my camera since Forest’s dog chewed my other one.) I’m so mad at myself!!! I could just scream!!!

On the way home, Glenn fell asleep and slept all night long. Yay! More time with just Forest, we really don’t get enough one on one time. Glenn normally is an angel and everyone always comments on how well behaved he is.

Today my cold is getting the better of me and I have been fighting a bad headache all day. (I took the day off work)