On this Monday, I went to work in Eva's classroom. When I arrived, one of her classmates said to me "Eva is hurting in her eye." I checked her out and she had some watery eyes and a look on her face that was strained. I started to glue some cotton balls onto some santa's that the kids had colored previously and when I got to about santa #5 Eva's teacher asked her if she was OK and suggested that she come over and visit me at the santa cotton ball table. She sat in my lap for a while and just whined a little bit. I don't know if it was a headache or something that made her eyes watery and uncomfortable but after about ten minutes we decided to head home together. As soon as we got home she drank some apple juice, sucked down a dose of tylenol and laid on the couch. She was asleep before I could ask her how she was another time. Two hours later, she woke up feeling fine and refreshed and that was the end of that.
We later headed over to Emily's school for a home game which turned out to be a very exciting one! Emily's team won 26-25! We ate leftovers for dinner and then proceeded to wait patiently for Santa to ride down our street on his firetruck. Yep, every December he rolls through our neighborhood with his sleigh high atop a vintage fire truck, our town is cool like that. Sirens blaring and Christmas music on the speaker. Ho Ho Ho, he finally showed up just as we were giving up and going inside for pj's.
While we waited we played lots of basketball in the driveway and after our neighbor set the example we raked and dumped leaves for the next half hour! We were just sitting out there enjoying ourselves and saw him working away on his pile in the dark. Tony and I looked at each other, clinked our wine glasses one more time and got busy. All four of the kids got in the act and they even fought over rakes and shovels! You'd think we were a little crazy out there cleaning our yard in the dark. I think our neighbor appreciated the company!
Santa finally made his appearance, his elf gave my kids each a miniature candy cane and we called it a December day.
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