In the end, my
worry about what would happen on Christmas Day at my aunt’s house turned out to be nothing. Two of my cousins ended up not being able to
show up so I only had to deal with one infant (5 months old) and an almost 3
year old. They were adorable and very
well behaved and although I engaged in some wistful thinking while hanging out with
them, everything went fine. Thank
goodness I wasn’t on any IVF drugs at the time!!
My aunt was also on good behavior. I actually made a point to stay away from her
unless there was a big group (although, she has asked about our plans for kids
in big groups too) so that I wouldn’t get the dreaded question which ended up
working out well. No kid questions from
anyone that day so CP and I survived the day!
I did find out that my step second cousin is infertile
though. Remember how she
helped CP get his new job? Well he now sits in the cubicle next to her
and she does seem to give out a lot of personal information (and others do to
her as well). He has overheard that she
and her husband can’t have kids but doesn’t know the specifics. I watched her hang out with the little kids
at Christmas and I swear I saw the same wistful look in her eye that was also
in mine. I doubt that we will ever get a
chance to talk about our infertility as we all know how close CP holds the infertile cards to his chest, but I do feel for her. :-(
What's a holiday recap without adorable pictures of the dogs??
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| Buster loves his new toy! |
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| My sister and her boyfriend got Buster a bowtie collar so that he could look dapper for the holidays. I love it! |
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| Buster enjoying the Christmas snow at the dog park. |
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| Koda laying with all of the dog toys. I'm pretty sure the dogs received more presents on Christmas than the humans did! |
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| Christmas Day picture with Buster, my sister's dog Fletcher, and Koda. I have no idea how I was able to snap such a good photo, but I think I may have to frame this!! |
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| Here is a preview of our new dining room ready for Christmas dinner! I can't wait to show you the before pictures! :-) |
7 comments:
Oh my. Buster is so happy about his new toy. So cute! Glad your Xmas wasn't too painful.
I swear your dogs are just giant cute fuzz balls. I am glad that your Christmas experience was better than what you anticipated.
Your dogs are so cute!! The holidays can be hard for infertiles, glad yours went well :)
Love your doggies! The group photo by the tree is great.
Love the shot of the dogs in front of the tree! Glad the Christmas get together wasn't too painful (I also avoided pesty questions from my family) hopefully you and your cousin will have a heart to heart talk about her infertility issues and she'll learn that it doesn't have to be lonely :)
Glad it went better than you expected :)
Love, love those dog photos! They're so beautiful!
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