It's officially the holidays!

Oooooo This year I am going to have so much fun. I have so much to celebrate. I am so much healthier than I used to be. God may very well have finally answered my prayer for the right guy for me. My sister and her husband are pretty happy and Eric...well he's just a little walking blessing. I can't wait till my schedule changes and I can steal him once a week or so.

After we get back from our vacation I am going to move the house around and get ready for the Christmas decorations. I want to put the tree up...but right now I am not sure where it's going to go.

Rob's family does Christmas on Christmas day. My family does Christmas on Christmas Eve so it will be neat to be able to hang out with everybody instead of having to try to split the day.

We split Thanksgiving....Rob cooked he started Wednesday morning and didn't stop until Thursday at about 3 pm. I think that's a little crazy myself. It would have been just as great if we had ordered the turkey from Walmart or something and gotten to enjoy our time together instead of cooking like wild people. After we had filled our bellies with all sorts of wonderful food we went to my Mom and Dad's for pie. Yum! Mom and Dad had gone to Black Angus for their Thanksgiving dinner. They said it was yummy and of course the baby stole the show because he is so cute and lovable.

Rob and my family get along great....but Rob's Aunt Judy and I don't get along well at all. She's a smoker...I have asthma and since Rob and I were the only one in a house of about 15 people who don't smoke yesterday was rough on the old bronchial tubes.

Rob had talked to his mom about how badly smoke effects me and apparently she talked to Judy about not smoking around me. Well I am not to sure who said what...but the result was all day yesterday whenever Judy smoked she made a big deal about not being around me because I was so allergic to the smoke. She made a big deal about other people not smoking to since I am so allergic....it was just rude.

I never said anything to anybody but Rob about the fact that 15 people in a room smoking was going to make it hard for me to breathe. It's their house they can smoke if they want to....when it got to be too much I went outside until I could breathe again. I also took a bunch of allergy meds. Not the end of the world. It was just petty. So I decided not to let it get me down. I don't want things to be uncomfortable but if she chooses to ruin the holiday for herself so be it. However I am certianly not going to allow her to ruin my holiday with her self centered drama.

Here again I have to say my family seems to treat one another so much better than Rob's family does. My Aunt Dorothy always smoked. Sometimes she smoked around us if we were at her house. Yet if my Aunt saw that her smoking was the cause of making me not able to breathe...she gladly went outside to smoke instead. She didn't think her right to smoke outweighed my right to breathe. It makes me so sad that he grew up in such a self centered enviornment...my family is far from perfect but seeing how they work makes me constantly thankful for my upbrining.