We survived Christmas! What a crazy, CRAZY, time of year. If
I am honest, Christmas is not my favorite holiday… It’s overwhelming, daunting,
expensive… the list goes on. Yet, every year I am fulfilled by how wonderful
the holiday actually is, once you get past the stress. It’s filled with family,
food, and giving. A beautiful, stressful, perfect holiday.
We were so blessed to be healthy ON Christmas. Oliver came
down with a nasty illness. He was tired, feverish, coughing, crying. It was
terrible and lasted forever. I think it was a good 10 days before we were
acting normal again! We had to miss our trip to Tulsa to see family for
Christmas and an 80th
birthday party. Very sad.
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| Sick Baby |
We nursed Ollie back to health with a strong liquid diet
because he refused to eat. Rotations of elderberry, raw honey, FCLO, raw
probiotics, kombucha, green smoothies, bone broth, coconut water with Himalayan
salts, and keifer. We made homemade cough syrup with fresh ginger, raw apple
cider vinegar, lemon, and oil. Then had a rotation of essential oils to help
the healing process. Detox baths with magnesium to help the body aches, and
avoided fever reducers to allow his body to fight the illness since his fever
wasn’t high! I am very thankful to have been able to avoid prescription
medication or antibiotics this round! I know we won’t always get that lucky,
but thankful for making it through this illness!
Christmas Eve Eve we were able to get attend a beautiful
church service with family. Christmas Eve we spent going to another church with
family and celebrating the Christmas we missed in Tulsa. Poor Oliver still was
not 100% and spent most of the night throwing fits. –sigh-
Christmas day we started with our traditional breakfast my
mom makes every year. Homemade cinnamon rolls. They are to die for. TO DIE FOR
YA’LL! I love this tradition so much. Even if we don’t spend Christmas day with
my family my momma always makes sure we have some of her cinnamon rolls. It’s
the perfect start to the day. Then for lunch we were able to spend with my
sweet grandparents and aunt that was in town!
This brings me to my favorite gift exchange every year. My
sweet sister a few years ago gifted me a jar. A memory jar. Throughout the year,
who ever has the jar, writes down their favorite sister memories then gifts the
jar back on Christmas. This has become a tradition I SO look forward to each
year. When it's my turn to have the jar I leave it in our living room, write
down notes throughout the year and drop it in the jar. It's so fun to read all
the things we did together throughout the year. My sister is amazing you guys.
She is seriously my best friend and I love our relationship. The older she gets
the closer we seem to get and this jar is such an amazing representation of an
intentional relationship. This year when I opened the jar, I just started
tearing up. I cherish our relationship so much and love this new tradition we
started!
The day after christmas we had ANOTHER family gathering. (Big family!) It was filled with music like usual, which Ollie loved! I come from one very talented musical family. Total bummer I didn't get that gene..Maybe Ollie will....
We have had such a blessed Christmas! I am overwhelmed with
gratitude for all the blessing we have received this year! Hope you all had a
wonderful holiday!
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| Opening gifts, yet his favorite was the Mario tooth brush we got him! :) |
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