I'm drained, but no exacerbation or pseudo-exacerbation. Same symptoms as before Christmas, just maybe more pronounced. In other words, I'm more tired, my legs hurt more, and my brain is foggier, but only what I expected.

We only had three people come (out of the five possibilities), and they're all adults, so it wasn't the chaos it could have been.

I had stomach flu from the 23rd through today and just starting to eat normal again. Other than that it was peachy!

My Christmas is Saturday. We have the biggest house so it's here. I am so proud of all of our offspring, they have taken over! I have one daughter who lives out of town and the other lives herein town. The one that lives out of town has the 2 grand children. They don't know if they are coming Thursday or Friday, they will leave on Sunday. So that will be my biggest drain. But those girls have a thing with their Grandpa about breakfast. They get up about 7, he fixes whatever he can find and then they watch cartoons. So we all sleep late. Since our other family members are coming in on Saturday we won't have a full house until early afternoon. I won't be able to sleep as late Saturday but by that time I will be going on adrenalin. One of my nephews in bringing his SO, they have a little baby and I am excited about meeting them.

We will finish the weekend by all going out to the cemetary on Sunday. I really wish after the second spouse dies that they could change the headstones so that they are holding hands. Dad died in 1998 and Mom died this year so they are finally together again.

So Monday I will crash! The nephew with the baby is staying at my daughters house and won't be going home until Tuesday. I will gladly give the hosting job over to her! Some how with his temperament, baby and 3 dogs and a cat I think they may go home before Tuesday!

My husband and the daughter who live here do a good job of protecting me. They let me do what I can and know that I will probably do more than I should but are prepared to take care of me when I finally collapse! My DH can be a handful at times but then he is a jewel at others.