Very Merry!

Well, here we are! Christmas is commencing in just a few hours!

I'm almost ready. No. I'm not.. We still need to get our dog a present. Trust me when I say this is a very important thing. She loves to open presents, which is why you won't find any wrapped gifts under our tree unless we're home. 

We also have a few gifts to wrap, food to make, and a house to straighten up, but we're in the homestretch. 

Christmas Eve should be a hoot. Most of the family is coming. There will be a lot of talking, laughing, eating, and talking. Though I do hope for an early evening. I will explain a little further down. 

Then Christmas Day and a birthday. K4 will be 25. We're having stromboli for dinner and her usual ice cream cake. The kids are coming over, which will be fun chaos. And lucky for us, we're off the day after Christmas. 

So, this time last year I started having consistent pain in my hip. I'd had on and off pain for months before, but once I laid down it would stop. Then that stopped being a thing and it hurt all of the time with very rare times of no pain. I thought it was my sciatic. At the beginning of summer I couldn't take it anymore and went to the walk-in orthopedic clinic. 

To make a long story short, I'm having my hip replaced in two weeks. Things have progressed horribly. I am in constant pain and it's hard to get comfortable. I don't sleep well. I can't do half of the things I want/need to. I'm using a cane now and have a special step stool to get in our truck. My tolerance for chaos is pretty much nonexistent right now and I'm exhausted all of the time. I'm very frustrated by my own limitations and it doesn't take much to make me cry because the pain keeps me on the brink already. 

That Man is a saint. He has to put my sock on for me and help me with so many things. He's taking care of the majority of the household chores and has to deal with my whining and restlessness. 

And that's where we're at. I haven't touched my writing in at least a week. But hopefully I will get back to it over the next two weeks. Christmas is my social cut off. I can't take the chance of getting sick and delaying my surgery so I'm quarantining. There won't be any New Year's Eve gathering for us, but I'd probably just be cranky and uncomfortable anyways. 

And that's that. 

I hope you have a wonderful day however you celebrate. 

Behave!