Christmas

We celebrated Christmas a little differently this year, but tried to keep the family aspect the same.  Julia, my au pair Maria and I all tested postive on Wednesday, December 22nd.  I had actually gone to urgent care to get an inhaler as I thought I was getting a chest cold.  They called me from inside the urgent care center and told me I had covid and to leave without checking out.  It was surreal as it didn't even cross my mind that I had covid.  I was shocked when they told me I did and had to retrace my steps to see who I had exposed.  Luckily, my au pair Maria, Julia and I were the only ones to get it.  Even though all the other people were exposed, no one else got it.  

We decided to decorate Christmas cookies for Santa and his reindeer.  The boys had fun baking the cookies, decorating them and adding a note for Santa.  We also left out reindeer food for them as well as carrots to feed them.  They loved all of it.  

Lunch at The Metropolitan Club

We had big plans to have lunch at The Metropolitan Club before the Polar Express (which was cancelled).  The boys dressed up in their Christmas pajamas and had lunch before our Polar Express ride, but unfortunately, the Polar Express train ride was cancelled two hours before our ride.  After lunch we took the boys to my office and showed them my desk.   We also took a picture of the view from the bathroom, which looks directly at the lake.  We ended up taking the boys to the movie Encanto at the Icon Theater at Roosevelt.  It wasn't the same, but we made the most of it.  Mommy and our au pair Maria were actually positive at this point, but didn't know it until the next day.  We only had a scratchy throat and no other symptoms.

 

Family Christmas

Family Christmas ~

We celebrated family Christmas on Tuesday, December 21st at our house.  We picked this date because it was the only date we could all get together because of traveling (Ethan and Elle were in New York the weekend before) and everyone's work schedules and other family events.  We were all feeling a little sick on Tuesday (little cough), but we all took covid tests and they were negative.  We ordered Maggiano's for dinner and had lots of appetizers.  We enjoyed a nice dinner, then had Sweet Mandy B's for dessert and finally opened presents and played games.  We all had fun opening presents and spending time together and then played jackbox.  We had such a great time together and decided we will make this a yearly tradition including Kim, Julia and Ethan's mom as well as Julia's boyfriend Dan and Ethan's girlfriend Elle.