411 The Walters Bunch

Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband! You were my rock these past few months and I appreciate you so much!  I did pretty well this year. Normally, I stress about getting everything done in time for the holidays, but this year after the insane amounts of stress we had, I didn't. Nothing really seemed that important. My goal was not to put too much on anyone. In trying to keep stress to a minimum, we didn't even do Cookie, our elf on the shelf, this year. The kids and I have fun with her, but also know it's a lot of work to keep up with her and they were ok with missing one of our traditions for this year. Dealing with all of L's issues has been a little overwhelming for everyone and we really just need some downtime. L has pretty much ostracized herself from her siblings. They use to be so close and now they not only don't trust her, but don't know what to do around her. They kinda have parallel lives nows. However, it has strengthened A and T's bond and th

  My son the giant💗 Things have been very busy at our house. Not only are we getting ready for the holidays, but we have also had 5 basketball games a week plus practice and a newborn kitten who needs a bottle about every three hours, day and night. Even with A, L, and I trading off shifts, we are all still very tired. She is growing really well though. She has gone from about 4oz to 13oz now. Her eyes are open, her ears are up, and she can crawl, though she is pretty wobbly. We cannot wait until sometime in the next week or so when she gains the ability to go to the bathroom without us having to rub her with warm cotton balls. Noelle was a little more receptive to taking a Santa picture with T.  A is basically the kittens over protective mommy. She takes the baby, who we named Miracle, back and forth with her to work so she can bottle feed her there and check her weight. As worried as we were with Noelle meeting Maisy, I have to say that with this kitten Maisy couldn't care less.

  My son🤷💓 Last week with the down time was nice. We decorated the inside and outside for Christmas, got the majority of our holiday shopping done, and had time to plan some fun things for the upcoming weeks. We had kind of a crazy week with 5 basketball games, but luckily every single one of them was in my hometown, though a wreck on one of the days did make it take 30 minutes to go 10 miles. Since everything was pretty crazy around T's birthday we never really took him out with a friend to celebrate so this week we took him and a friend to the trampoline park, out for lunch, and then they just hung out at our house and played video games. T had such a good time! He doesn't have very many times a year that he is able to just hang out with friends, and basketball stuff DOESN'T count. These days everyone has so much going on that it is almost impossible to schedule time to just hang out with friends. In fact, T had to have fun during the day because we had basketball pract