Christmas By Numbers

Number of days spent celebrating so far - 3
Number of days left to go - 1
Number of families visited in 3 days - 4

Sunday, December 23rd - The In-Laws
They came to our house for presents and a show (piano and singing by Noah and Olivia, naturally). Then out to dinner.
Number of carols played on the piano - 3
Number of carols refused by Liv - 3
Number of Hannah Montana songs performed instead by Liv - 2
Number of people we saw at Outback that we knew - 2
Number of people we saw at Outback that we knew and that I had been thinking of only moments before - 1
Number of times we were asked by the Mother-In-Law if we really, honestly, truly liked our gifts - countless

Monday, December 24th - My Dad's House
Number of grown-ups present -13
Number of children present - 8
Number of super shy children that actually sat and talked to me for the first time ever - 1 (thanks, Tuck! I should mention that he couldn't resist me only because I had stickers and glitter glue available for his little 2 year old use)
Varieties of desserts available - 7
Turkeys fried - 2
Height of my "baby" 17 year old cousin - 6'5"
Number of strangers who showed up and whose name I don't remember (Amber? Amanda? Amy?) -1

Tuesday, December 25th - Our House
Smiling faces Christmas morning - 4
Number of cookies Santa ate - 2
Number of amazing priceless gifts received - at least a hundred (A few years ago our computer died without warning and bad, bad me had never backed up our digital pictures. Every baby picture I had of Olivia was lost. For Christmas J called all the grandparents and had them send copies of any baby picture they had of her. Awesomely Awesome. I almost want to cry just thinking about the awesomeness of them all :)

Tuesday Afternoon - My aunt and uncle's house
Number of adults present - 16
Number of children present - 7
Number of dogs -2
Number of real parrots - 1
Number of toy parrots - 1
Number of new people to meet - 3
Number of new people names I remembered - 3!
Number of incredibly shy children who would have nothing to do with me because I no longer had the allure of glitter glue and stickers - 1
Number of whisky sours I had to drink - 1/2 (Mr. Bartender, you really should've been there!!)


Wednesday December 26th - The Wrap Up
Number of Children currently in my house until Friday - 0
Number of Husbands currently in my house until 7pm - 0
Number of dates I will go on tonight - 1 (with above mentioned husband, of course!)
Number of gift cards used today - 1
Items bought with gift card - 5 storage containers in various sizes to hold all the gifty stuff children received and 2 movies (Annie for me. And, um, The Goonies...for me. Because, hey, it was my gift card)
Number of miles traveled since Sunday - 443
Number of miles I'm traveling tomorrow - 0
Days until next Christmas - 365