Christmas in Houston

This Christmas was like a return to my childhood ones in California- wearing shorts and white lights on palm trees.  I can say wholeheartedly that I didn't miss the white Christmas experience of Minnesota one bit.
Unfortunately, our holiday experience was marred by Zachary's tonsillectomy on the 21st that stretched  into a miserable two-week marathon of pain.  I never again want to see my child hooked up to monitors showing his heart rate racing above 200 and his oxygen saturation rates in the 70's.  I have gained so much admiration for women whose children suffer from chronic conditions.  I honestly don't know how they do it. 

Random assortment of photos follow. 

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