Christmas is once again over. Our house has general sickness all around, and on Sunday (Christmas) nobody felt like going to church in the morning, so we just got ready and left for Michigan as soon as we were able to get everyone ready. We had a nice visit with Beth's family, and a nice dinner. If we'd thought about it, we'd have saved a few presents for Alex and Missy to balance things out some more. It's hard to explain to a 2-year-old that the other kids there are Uncle Marve and Aunt Sissy's grandkids, and that he already got his Christmas presents from his grandparents at Thanksgiving, and that's why there aren't any more presents for him and there are some for the other kids. We spaced things out pretty well though, except for the stockings. Alex had the most disappointed "where's mine?" look on his face when the other kids got theirs from Grammy and Papa and he didn't have one. He's already gotten 2 of them but that was in the past. Oh well, anyway, now we know better. We decided not to stay the night due to not feeling like it. Yesterday Beth took the kids out for a couple hours to let me work on the house; I got some phone lines run that I'd been intending to get to for a while: a permanent line run through the ceiling to replace the temporary line jury-rigged a year ago for the DVR, and a new line right behind the computer to replace the long cord running through the room. Didn't have time to run the line to the upstairs bedroom that I wanted to. Today Beth and Missy both went to the doctor, they have matching sinus infections. I have a dry scratchy throat with cough. Alex has a runny nose. I love spending my vacations sick.