The Adventures of a Mom on the Run: School, Family and ripped pants...Christmas Part 1

Christmas has come and gone and now its back to reality.
But not before I recap our Holiday festivities.

It all started Thursday with Audrey's Winter Celebration at school. (There is a little girls in her class that is a Jehovah's Witness, so it couldn't be called a Christmas Party in order for her to participate.)

Audrey with her teacher at their Winter Celebration

I wasn't able to get off work so I sent my mom as my replacement. I try to be at as many school functions as I possibly can, but when I can't make it, I try to make sure someone is there to be with the kids. My mom helps out a lot because she works part-time and a lot closer than Eddie and I. Eddie normally can take off too, since he's the boss and all, but he was headed to get Andrew!

Thursday night the girls and I stayed up way past our bedtimes to wait on Eddie and Andrew to get home. The girls haven't seen Andrew in 4 months, other than the occasional FaceTime. It was so nice to have all 3 kids under one roof again.

Friday
Thankfully, Friday was Pajama day at school so they got to sleep in a little and no need to get all dressed up. I did however get up early to make Sticky Buns for Madilyn's class party. I took the day off in order to be able to attend class parties and spend the day with Andrew. So we all headed to school with breakfast in hand. Andrew was so excited to see the girls school. He hung out with Madilyn and her friend during the party. Madilyn recently has gotten too cool and sometimes won't acknowledge Eddie or myself when she's around her friends so I was a little worried that she would ignore Andrew, but she was so good with him.

Saturday
We went to visit Eddie's grandfather, Pop. The Martin side of the family gets together on Christmas day for lunch and to exchange presents. We were not going to be able to make it on Christmas, so we wanted to drop off our gift and visit with Pop. It always seems like whenever we have get togethers with that side of the family, the girls are never with us. Therefore, Eddie's side of the family barely knows the girls. They really only met them once, at our wedding. It was nice for the girls and Pop to get to spend some time together and for everyone to get to know one another better. Pop had a Christmas party to get to with his girlfriend Doris, so we left. I think it's a little sad that they have a better social life than I do.

Sunday

The great-grandchildren

All the Teal's gathered at Uncle Frank's house to play dirty Santa game and have lunch. The kids also received gift from Uncle Frank and Aunt Donna. Gotta love Aunt Donna for getting all 3 of my children things that make noise.

All the grandchildren and great-grandchildren

After Frank's house we had to rush home so Madilyn could change her pants because somehow she managed to rip a big hole in the butt of her jeans. And then we were off to go have dinner with my dad's side of the family, the Nestlehutt's at Logan's restaurant.

Then home to crash and recover from all the over eating so we can do it all over again on Monday, Christmas Eve.

I'll have to finished the rest later