When we won the Nutcracker tickets, my plan was to wait and surprise Rachel the morning of the show with the tickets.
But then, a week or so ago she came home from school with a birthday party invitation. And wouldn't you know that it was for the exact day and time as I had already chosen the Nutcracker tickets. Ugh.
She was so excited about the birthday party (are all six year olds as into birthday parties as she is? She talks about them for weeks and weeks!), but once I looked at the invitation, I knew she couldn't go. But I couldn't tell her that she couldn't go unless I told her about The Nutcracker! I hated changing the plans to surprise her, but I didn't really have a choice.
So I wrapped up a Nutcracker bookmark I had found and when she opened it I told her about winning the tickets and going to see it. She was really excited, until she found out it meant that she couldn't go to the birthday party. I guess I should've anticipated that reaction, but I didn't. Lots of tears. Ugh.
But over time, she's forgotten about the birthday party and is really excited to go to the Nutcracker tomorrow. She's been listening to the music up in her room (two years ago after we saw it for the first time I bought her the CD for Christmas, and she loves it) and dancing to it.
The plan was for Grandma and Grandpa (who are coming with us to the Nutcracker tomorrow) to come down today and go with the girls and me to go visit Santa. Rachel's been talking about it for a week. But then winter decided to make an appearance, and it's going to snow all day here. They said the roads are going to get worse and worse today, so they've decided to wait and come down tomorrow in time for the Nutcracker, and not go with us to see Santa today (tomorrow the weather is supposed to be fine). So once again, plans change.
Rachel's not good at changing plans. Thankfully she took this one in stride. I'll have to wait and see how the roads are before I decide whether or not to go on with the plan to go see Santa today. That's a plan I'm afraid she won't be as okay with! We'll see....
Rebecca's strep throat is the easiest case of strep throat I've ever heard of. After we went to the doctor she hasn't had a fever at all! She takes her medicine like a pro. You can't even tell that she was ever sick. Still hoping that Rachel doesn't come down with it, though....that would probably change some more plans, and that would make her (and me!) really sad.
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