The kids and I have been home today while Cory left later in the morning to be at the hospital again. I was hoping today would be a little more relaxing and fun, but we've all been so cranky with each other. Cranky, cranky, cranky. I think we're all tired and reacting to the stress of the past few days. Accalia is definitely in need of a nap, but since it's almost 4 p.m. I'm hoping she'll hang on a few more hours and be down early tonight.

We made a trip to Wal-Mart this afternoon, and Accalia picked out some Christmas suncatchers to paint so she can hang them up in Mary's hospital room. There were a ton of people shopping, which makes sense since it's a weekend afternoon in the Christmas season. The holidays have really been on our minds, though, for obvious reasons. I had just pulled my cart up to pay for our purchases and stepped a couple feet away to glance in the coolers and see if they had orange juice (they didn't). In those few seconds, a woman breezed right up and cut in line. She just had one thing and probably thought I was going to take forever looking for something, but how rude is that! She kept looking at me to see if I was going to go off on her, I'm assuming, but it really doesn't make sense to get upset about the little things.

The house is a mess and there are bills that need to be paid, so I'd better start on something.