Merry Christmas to all! (It's a little long, but you'll want to bear with me to the end)

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope that you are having a wonderful Christmas with family and friends and that you are enjoying celebrating the birth of Jesus.
Our family has had a busy few weeks. There is a nasty flu going around Calgary and two weeks ago I was supposed to drop off R at my neighbour's house so that I could go get my Christmas shopping done. She phoned me the morning of and let me know that her son was sick and that her daughter had been sick earlier in the week. So, shopping was out that day. We planned that I would bring R over this past Thursday and would go shopping then, but that morning I went into R's room to discover that he had thrown up in the night and there went my best laid plans! On Wednesday we had been at my parents for the day as my Grandma on my dad's side was here visiting, so I was hoping that R's flu was not the one going around that took out whole families one at a time. Turned out he only threw up twice and had a fever and everyone else he came into contact with has stayed healthy. Thank God - honestly, I was praying so hard, because who wants to be sick over Christmas!
So Friday we went shopping, both R and I and he was an ANGEL! We were in and out in 2 hours and I got everything that I needed - I had a list of all the things I needed and the places I was going and we got it done. In the afternoon we picked up DH after work and he and R went to Chapters while I got the last grocery shopping I needed to done. That evening we started on the painting downstairs. And we painted Saturday afternoon while R was in napping, and after he went to bed in the evening and finished it yesterday afternoon while he napped - the painting is DONE! YEAH! My back hurts badly, but it is over - I rollered the entire basement and M edged and did the finicky work and we got it done. We are putting down the flooring this week and Dad is coming on Saturday to help hang door and put up our canopy garage that we got for Christmas from Mom and Dad and C and M. And then the basement is usable. We can move a lot of the toys downstairs and have a little sanity upstairs again. But I got ahead of myself.
On Sunday we went to church and then to my parents where we had Christmas dinner, then opened presents. I got a Snowbabies music ornament, a sweater and Corelle "Urban Black" dishes - 8 place settings. I was happy! My dishes were wedding presents - so 10 years old - and beginning to chip on the edges and they took up so much room in my cupboard. DH got the phone he was wanting and R got... well, a lot of things. I'll tell you all about them on his blog in the next few days. We went to my aunt's house for dessert and spent some time with my grandma and cousins as well as aunt and uncle there. DH, R and I stayed overnight at Mom and Dad's, DH went to work in the morning and R and I picked him up at noon.
As everything had been insane the past week, not as I planned it to happen, our house was a mess last night and I cleaned up after we got home from the Christmas Eve service. It was a bit of a later night the past several for me.
This morning we got up and R had a bottle while DH read the Christmas story, then we opened presents. DH and I only exchanged stockings as we are going to Riverdance in February. I got shower stuff from my sister-in-law and we got chocolate and money from my in-laws. It's going towards living room furniture, which I am going to look for tomorrow morning, maybe get a Boxing Day special. Mom and Dad came over in the afternoon and we all spent time together and had supper - ham, my favorite! It was a relaxing kind of Christmas Day. It was a good thing.
I realise that the last few months my blog has been a bit sporadic. I have been finding it a bit difficult to find things to write about because the things that have been most on my mind I have written about elsewhere. Two months ago today DH and I found out that we are going to be parents a second time over!

YES, WE ARE HAVING A BABY!!!!

We are so excited! The little one is to arrive on the 3rd of July, so the day before my birthday. I felt a little nauseous for weeks 5-7, but got past that. I have been insanely forgetful and scatterbrained in the past 2 months, it's quite awful for me and extremely frustrating for DH. I started a blog for this little one the day I found out, but I have it private, only I can read it, which I think I will continue for a little while yet - not ready to share it yet with anyone. DH hasn't even read it. :)
So that is our news. If you got our Christmas letter you already know, as we told in it. We are 13 weeks tomorrow, so now into the 2nd trimester. At the end of January we get the ultrasound so we can officially "meet" this little person. R calls the baby "Nemo". Another tidbit for you...
Anyways, I am starting to babble and not make sense, so I will write more another time and get myself to bed now. Again,
Have a very Merry Christmas!