'Twas the Night Before Christmas...

What an eventful day.

It started off with one of the nurses, Robin, calling in and informing us that she had a family emergency to deal with. I was promptly awoken at just about 8am, started taking care of her, yadda yadda (I'll spare you the details).

The day was pretty smooth and normal until about 5pm... when mom came home with a veritably huge christmas tree (15'... no joke) and we pulled all the decorations out of the garage. We wheeled Sara into the living room so she could watch us decorate it... Me, Mom and Paulette all decorated the tree while sara watched and chatted away on her talk-box.

Well, it was pretty commonplace until the tree fell over.

Sara was fine, but not more than a foot or two to her right was Mom, who was organizing ornaments, which happened to be right where the tree fell... ornaments and all. A few ornaments survived the ordeal, but most of the ones on the tree were smashed (good thing most of them were just run-of-the-mill colored sphere ornaments, and those that weren't didn't get damaged). One of the ornaments actually landed, completely intact, on top of Sara. Again, she was completely fine. In fact, not only was she completely uninjured, but she was laughing so hard at it all that we had to rush to get the tree up so we could suction her so her sats would come back up.

Well, we got the tree vertical again then tied it to the railing for the stairs with a few guy wires. Hopefully it'll stay.

All in all, though, today was pretty calm, and I have to admit, I'm glad that she's home for christmas this year, because I know that's something she didn't get last year. It's a hell of a lot better with her here. Crazy falling christmas trees and all.

-Mike (The Brother)