Christmas, Christmas time is here...

I'm back...yes, I survived the shopping madness. I only have about 2 or 3 more gifts to get! Hooray! I lapsed back into my sinus sickness over the holiday, so we didn't put our tree up...I just couldn't get myself off the couch long enough! I had absolutely no energy. I went back to the doctor yesterday, and now I'm on some new antibiotics...geez. I was taking Cipro and wasn't getting any better, in fact, I was getting worse! The doctor I saw yesterday said, and I quote, "Cipro is a very good antibiotic, but not for a sinus infection" !!! So now I'm on Omnicef..but enough about that.
We had a very good Thanksgiving. I ate lots of good food, saw all of my family, and got alot of shopping done. A tragedy struck last week though. On Tuesday last week, my ex-brother-in-law, the father of my eight-year-old niece, died. I was just dumbstruck when I heard the news. Being that they live 10 hours away, we couldn't make it to the funeral, which was Friday, though we all would have liked to very much. Its still so unbelievable to me. I feel so sorry for my nieces, all three of them..but especially Kelly, she's only eight. It seems so senseless that he died, and now she's left without a father. It brings back old feelings for me, as my dad died when I was eleven. Its somewhat different for her though because she didn't live with him. Not that that makes it any easier. She lives with her grandparents, who take wonderful care of her, so I know she'll be ok, but it breaks my heart to no end to think that in the blink of an eye, she no longer has a father here. I need to stop wallowing in these thoughts. I just wish so much that it hadn't happened. I've been praying for their (and my) family every night.
For a change of subject, my closet is now stuffed to the brim with Christmas gifts. I stuffed them in every possible nook and cranny of that closet, so that kids, if they happen to wander in there, won't see them. I'm planning to wrap them as soon as possible..it makes me nervous to have them out in the (sort of) open like that.
Ooh, I watched a horror movie this weekend..An American Haunting and it didn't give me nightmares!! I was so glad! Amber forced me to watch it (haha) but it was really good. We didn't totally understand parts of it, so we watched the alternate endings (all 500 of them) on the bonus features on the DVD, and figured out what happened, who the haunter was. Freaky movie, but they say its based on a true story. I also watched part of Anne of Green Gables last night. Ah...I love it. Now for the Anne quote of the day:
"It must have been a terribly romantic way for the mouse to die". (after a mouse got into an open container of pudding and drowned- gross!)