(Sounds like a sitcom)
2005 and 2006 have been very stressful years for me. I do hope that 2007 will be better. But if New Year’s Day is be a “sign” of the year. Good Heavens, I have no hope. This Christmas Season was different to say the least.
Christmas Eve: We met with Trey and Amanda for supper. We ate steaks and potatoes. It was very tasty and we had a good visit. Steve and I knew that we would be by ourselves on Christmas Day, so we planned to just stay home and not worry about anything. That was after I reminded him that he should not care if he did not open any present for Christmas Day.
December 26th: Trey and I took out to the stores. Trey was not happy for shopping on the day after Christmas. We had shopped earlier, but some gifts had been gotten yet. I kept reminding him that it was just as bad as the days before. So we did what we could.
December 27th: Halie and I went to Lafayette to spend a day playing. Dixey had called the day before so I planned to meet them while we were there. We had a great visit and I think Esther put up with Halie very well. She is only a year older than Halie, but she is so much more mature. Halie and I had a wonderful time as always.
December 28th: We decided to meet Mary and David in Lafayette at Trey’s. They were going shopping and needed the extra time. As to when they actually got in-my times have long left my mind, but we met with them around 7:00pm and went to Zea’s for supper. We enjoyed the visit and meal. Made plans to meet to see Michelle the next night.
December 29th: The weather was setting up to be a bad one. It had been raining and was looking like it would be bad. Michelle had made it in just in time to miss the bad weather
December 30th: “The Bennett’s Christmas Day”. The rain had followed her here, so we knew that we would have to have Christmas at Trey’s. We brought all the Christmas gifts over to Trey’s. We had Christmas and then began to enjoy messing around with the kids. Steve took Trey, Mary, and David to Mike’s for supper. We (Amanda, Michelle, and I) decided to stay because we were not really hungry. David talked us into spending the night, because he wanted to visit with us more. We stayed up late, but when the kids were ready to go to sleep we did. Steve began coughing that night so he left and went home despite the water.
December 31st: The next morning, Steve came back. We had had donuts and were enjoying our visiting. Steve decided he wanted to go back and we could come back on New Year’s Day. Since I knew the kids would want to do something fun that night. I decided to leave and go back with Steve.
January 1st: I got up early to start making cornbread and getting ready for the New Year’s Day dinner. When Steve came home on New Year’s Eve, he was running fever. He felt very bad the next day and had planned to stay home. We received a phone call from David and he told us that Trey was very sick. Throwing up and running a fever. So fixing dinner was out. I told them to make a decision and let me know. Steve was sick and would not be coming no matter what. We went to Lafayette’s Restaurant and ate. Then I visited with them for a while and finally decided it was time for me to leave. I hated to leave because I knew that I would not be seeing David or Mary for quite some time.
After all of this, we wonder just what our year would be like. (We had another deluge come through on 3rd of January. Water went over the road and I was not feeling great myself. So Thursday and Friday, I took off and stayed home. Hoping this would keep me from really being sick! So far so good!