Christmas Wellness
The children have been so great this holiday season. Christmas does, after all, bring out the best in the little ones. The excitement of the gifts under the tree, Santa, and all that comes with that gets them pretty pumped up.
If fact, they were so pumped up, that none of them noticed how incredibly sick we all were during last week. Personally, I spent the whole week in bed fighting the flu; but Christmas must go on!
We got the family a Wii with the sports package. AWESOME! These games are amazing, and everyone picked up on how to play incredibly fast. If you have not played this thing yet, you really must. It is the first time I have ever gotten sore while playing a video game. Really, my arms hurt, and my pride is killing me!
Christian is great at the baseball game…and annihilated me. Lindsey destroyed me in bowling. Julieann also made me look like an idiot at the lanes. Mackenzie knocked me out, several times, in boxing; and just thought the whole thing was funny.
Gabbi and Sophie – you know, the five year old twins- well they schooled me on the tennis court. All I could do after that was run to my wife for some comfort. Her wonderful words of love and comfort went a little like this…”Well dear, you are getting older and slower.” Well just thank you for that!
I don’t know why I still turn to her for the lifting of my spirits. She insists on being practical and honest; which just hurts more. I will sheepishly come to her after a painful experience, and she will dose me with pills from her bottle of reality.
Her responses are usually akin to the following: “Well honey,” she will say, “you are pretty short!” Or she will say, “What made you think you could pick that thing up anyway?” (Just loved that!) Or “Of course they were laughing at you…ya looked like an idiot!” And of course my favorite in the whole world…”Look, you’re getting too old for that, and you’re the only one who won’t admit it” Thank you dear, I love you to!
Yes, the children love the Wii, and they love having something they can beat me at. We got the children a go-cart as well, and I can’t wait to get them out in a field in that thing. We hope to go as soon as the weather breaks; and I am real excited about that.
Oh man, I almost forgot to tell you one of the funniest things that happened on Christmas day. Cheryl had this “Darth Vader” mask thing that she got from somewhere. You put it over your head and talk into it; and it changes your voice. It will also make that Vader breathing sound.
She was going to give it to Christian, and I refused to let her due to the fact that it was missing the whole back part of Darth’s helmet; so it was just the front, round, eyes and mouthpiece part of Vader’s head. I also felt like it was a little young for him, and stupid. So I suggested that she just give it to him after all the gifts had been opened.
Well wouldn’t you know it…the children loved that stupid thing; and everyone wanted their chance at wearing it. Christian thought it pretty cool; and Gabbi thought it was her long lost reason for living. At one point she has it on, and was doing knee bends to the rhythmic sound of Darth Vader breathing – she then proceeded by singing a voice altered version of Miley Ciruses “boom, boom, clap- boom, de-clap, de-clap. I felt so defeated by my own version of cool!
Well, all in all, Saturday was a success. After the gifts were opened, and the children were content with defeating me in everything; I lay back on the couch to nurse my high fever; and dozed off to the sound of bald, un-helmeted, “Gabbi Vader” singing me off to sleep.
Jason, Father of six