November 16, 2024 - Saturday

I'm feeling a lot better today! Not, like, completely better, but it's an improvement. I was showering midday and had the thought that we should take our family pictures for our Christmas cards. I'm sad I didn't push to have them done outside when the leaves were pretty, but it'll do. (Actually, they're kind of terrible now that I've taken and edited them. Alas, I'll work with what I've got.) So, I get everyone dressed and do their hair. Get myself dressed and hair done and makeup on. And then Ollie starts having a meltdown because Ruby's dress is prettier than hers. You have got to be kidding me! After almost an hour of soothing, and disciplining, and getting extremely pissed off, we got her calm enough to take pictures. I get everything set up with my worst tripod because my good one is MIA, my camera keeps falling right off of the clip because this tripod is so cheap and awful, we're all posing and pretending we're not stressed and upset, and the BATTERY IS DEAD IN MY CAMERA!!!! Oh. My. Gosh. Thankfully, Ben kept a cool head throughout the whole ordeal, unlike me, and urged me to plug my battery in and just relax for 20 minutes while we let it charge. Meanwhile, Ollie has devolved back into crying, this time because I expressed that I'm angry with her. 20 minutes later and she's still hiding, crying and I get things set up again. She finally chilled out (we have seriously got to do something about her terrible attitude) and we got the pictures done. Afterwards, I was so relieved that I just wanted to celebrate! I wasn't feeling too bad, I was all gussied up, and I wanted to go out! Ben acquiesced by suggesting we go to World Market and Walmart. 😅 Turns out, it was about all I could handle and it all went smoothly. We got home, I put on jammies, and relaxed for the rest of the evening. We did play Yahtzee later and I kicked butt. :)