Waiting for the Holidays to be Over

Christmas went pretty well. It was nice and relaxed around here, which doesn't really happen very often during a holiday. Nicolas got pretty much everything he wanted, I don't think he can complain. Vivian of course could have gotten nothing and would have been happy just smiling at everyone, but of course she didn't go without gifts. She got a Bumbo and a few hair bows and clips, and a Glow Worm, and a few other little things. I definitely can't complain, I got some scrapbooking stuff, and a gift card to Lerner, NY&Co, which is more than I was expecting.
I have barely got out of the house lately, maybe once a week, if that. And I'm getting really annoyed with never being able to spend time with Nate out of the house. My parents refuse to babysit, because they don't think that parents should go out, so that's super frustrating, which means that if we want to get out of the house with no kids, we have to alternate turns so one of us is always home. Luckily I have a friend that volunteered to babysit for us every once and a while, so later on this week, hopefully we can have a little date night.
I'm really needing to get out of living with my parents. Financially they help a lot, but it's not worth it. My mom is always angry at something or someone, and never in a good mood, and always telling me something I'm doing wrong with the kids, it's become pretty unbarable again. She basically still looks at me like I'm 13 years old, and just because I don't have very much money, it's impossible for me to know what I'm doing with my children right? I don't see us living here for passed another 2 or 3 months top.
New years is right around the corner, I am undecided on what I'm doing. Either I stay home with the kids (Nate is working) or I take them with me to a friend's house, she said that she's having people over with kids, because she knows that it's so hard to get a babysitter on New Years, so we'll see, either way I'm not stressing.

A Rough Week

(Viv loves her some Grandpa)

So this week was not as great as I would have hoped. Tuesday I thought that I just had a little bit of a sore throat, nothing crazy, just annoying, but that night and into Wednesday morning the wrath of an AWFUL cold took it's toll. I was out of commision Wednesday and Thursday, barely even able to hold my head up, and because I'm breastfeeding, the only medicine I was aloud to take was Benedryl, which didn't do anything to help, except put me to sleep. So, I just parked on the recliner for all those days trying to sleep my sickness away, today I still feel icky, but at least I'm functional.
Friday, Vivian had her 8 week well baby appointment and vaccinations. She is a very healthy 12 lbs 23 inches, in the 80th and 90th percentiles. I can't believe she's grown that much, it's nice to know that all of her nutrition and growth is from me (meaning my breast milk). She is a little porker, and definitely has a healthy appetite. It had been so long since I've been around a baby with vaccines, I forgot how horrible they are. Of course in the long run they're necessary, but this weekend was just no fun for little Viv. She had a pretty bad fever yesterday, and when she wasn't sleeping she was crying, which her being a laid back baby, I'm not used to. On top of me being stupid and reading stories on SIDS and Vaccinations, I couldn't sleep at all this weekend! Every 30 minutes I woke up to poke or nudge her to make sure she was still breathing.
Nicolas had his breakfast with Santa at school this weekend also. It was really cute, and Nicolas got to give his wish list to Santa. He made a list of 10 things with 1 backup haha. Of course everything he wants is upwards of $100, but I'm sure I'll manage.
As long as he gets his EASY BAKE OVEN! haha