Bitter Sweet

This weekend turned out to be a bitter sweet one. We had plans for my Dad and Holly to come down for an overnight visit from Sat. till Sun. We had big plans to bake Christmas cookies, attend Grace's dance program and just spend some quality time together. Plans changed when Holly came down with a double ear infection AND sinus infection. What a bummer for both her and us. I know how she is feeling since we are still all on the mend from our bout over Thanksgiving. So, needless to say Holly was not up for any traveling and don't blame her. We were a little bummed because we were looking forward to the time spent with them. However, we did end up having a nice relaxing weekend at home and even got to lounge around a little which is something we don't get a lot of these days. Sat. was spent baking cookies, truffles and mint thins by Mom and Grace. That evening we enjoyed the roast we had planned to make for the weekend and sat down as a family for a nice relaxing dinner. Aaron was falling asleep during our movie we sat down to watch at 9:30 followed by myself drifting off close to the end. We decided to call it a wrap and head to bed without seeing the ending.
The next day Grace had her dance program. It was a really nice time. There were a lot of our friends and neighbors children in the program so it was neat to be able to share the time with our friends. Grace was pretty disappointed in the performance of her group. She danced great but they were all thrown off because they were put on stage in the wrong order which caused them to crash when they turned the wrong directions when forming their circle. I felt so bad for her because she looks so forward to these performances and when something goes awry it really brings down her confidence. She is also starting to get to the age where she is catching the nervous anxiety bug so this all does not help. I plan on talking with her dance teacher tonight about the performance so that hopefully this can be avoided next time. I really hope she sticks it out and doesn't let this bring her down, she is a good dancer and a great performer. It was a really enjoyable day, we treated Grace to lunch out with friends and ice cream at Culver's. So all in all it was a great family weekend!