Merry Christmas to All!!

Wow! I thought the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas was fairly long, it was an extra week compared to other years, but I can't believe it's come and gone already!  I'm glad I was wrapping presents when I did.  I thought I was a bit early on the wrapping but it turns out that it was perfect because closer to Christmas I had no time.  We got the girls small trees on sale after last Christmas that never did get finished decorating them.  Kylie's tree is pink and Chloe's is purple.  Of course we let Kylie pick the color first, not sure what will happen next year if Chloe's favorite color is pink.  I might have to change the name of this blog to "Sisters Fighting"  They do it already, Kylie will get in Chloe's face and smile and be nice, but Chloe likes her personal space and will yell out. Joel penned this move as "pterodactyl." We'll say "Why are you pterodactyl, Chloe? Kylie, she does that because she doesn't want you in her face."
I got our Christmas tree up 2 weeks before Christmas, but I haven't really had time to enjoy it. It's in our downstairs so the mischievous Chloe won't try to take all the ornaments off the bottom. We had it there last year too and I would have time to sit by it and read or just enjoy it.  This year it's my own fault for not doing that more.   I've had other things on my mind. Plus I was trying to find something for Christmas stockings that I never found.  Last year in Target I found Lindt chocolate angels. I put them in the stockings as a gift from Faith.  I wanted to do that this year but I couldn't find any.  There were plenty of santas and bears, but no angels.  Maybe they didn't make them this year.

I'm not really into writing right now. Maybe later I will fill in the presents the girls received. I'll see. My mind is trying to multitask and that doesn't work well when trying to write a blog.

Happy New Year!  In case I don't write for awhile.

Oh - Chloe had the second RSV shot on Dec 20.  I haven't seen the bill for the first one yet, can't wait.  I think I'll only have to pay a little of it and then I reached the $5000 max on my health insurance and they'll pay the rest.  Too bad she has to get shots in January, February and March : ( Won't take long to meet that deductible. Actually, I pay the first $2500, then I pay 20% until I reach $5000.)  Hopefully after the winter we can all stay healthy and out of the hospital!

Just a quick update. Chloe did get the RSV shot, which in reading the paperwork, doesn't prevent her from getting RSV (not a vaccine). It can help lessen it so if she does get it, hopefully she won't be hospitalized.

All else is well. I'll try to post later, right now I just wanted to put this petition up. It's for closer monitoring of twin pregnancies.  We were lucky, once we found out that I was monitored closely, other women are not so lucky.  I don't dwell on this but what could have helped Chloe and Faith was to be diagnosed earlier than I was. There was a couple opportunities but I don't want to get into that because we can't change the past, only the future.


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