Christmas' Past and Present
Well Christmas is over for another year...Thank Heavens! This year was absolutely wonderful and everyone really did get spoiled. You saw some of the pictures of the basement...well that was the best present a Mom/wife could ever have! Hubby and I followed tradition and very few gifts besides the regular socks and gitch for us...all available Christmas funds are reserved for the Girls and for table scraps for all. A couple of pounds or ten of Alaskan King Crab legs,some sirloin steaks and shrimp for Christmas eve and a plump turkey and stuffing for the day itself.
For Christmas Day it was just Rob, Aimee, Brianne and I. Jen was at Matt's family's for dinner. I guess as the girls get older I'll have to recognize that they will want to share the special occasions with people other than their Mom. On Christmas Eve the girls were all home. Their men joined us, as did Bert (my Father in Law) and my friend Kelly (who's little one's were with their Dad). Christmas Eve will always be mine...the food is too good to resist and with the amounts I cook they can always have leftovers of turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes and veggies and gravy for days after Christmas. I missed having Jen with us and my father in law! Bert was complaining of sniffles so he didn't come over on the day of. He was here on the eve (see, it's the food I tell you!) Mom and Dad are away in Florida again this year, something I guess we'll get used to.
The day was spent lounging around playing the two new family games we got. You see we always get a family game. This year we got two and I think they have been the most enjoyed games ever. We got Sequence...a game that my Mom and Dad play all the time on a home made version that they've had for many years! We also got another game called Cross Crib, another game of strategy and cards that we have spent many hours playing!
So you see our holidays have been all about Family and this makes me very happy! Soon it will be back to school for the girls and back to work for me. Rob is already back at work this week and not very happy about it I might add. The last six weeks have seen him spending every last minute working on his wifey's present and now that it's done he needs a vacation! With no vacation time in the near future, I guess the least I can do is cook up the chili and ribs come Superbowl time so that he can enjoy the game in the comfort of his own basement surrounded by big screen tv, beer and friends. That's sometime at the end of January isn't it?
So I'm off to dream of my New Year's resolutions....but before I go, Happy New Year! May all your dreams come true in the upcoming year! May you and your family be happy, healthy and wealthy!
Cheers!
For Christmas Day it was just Rob, Aimee, Brianne and I. Jen was at Matt's family's for dinner. I guess as the girls get older I'll have to recognize that they will want to share the special occasions with people other than their Mom. On Christmas Eve the girls were all home. Their men joined us, as did Bert (my Father in Law) and my friend Kelly (who's little one's were with their Dad). Christmas Eve will always be mine...the food is too good to resist and with the amounts I cook they can always have leftovers of turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes and veggies and gravy for days after Christmas. I missed having Jen with us and my father in law! Bert was complaining of sniffles so he didn't come over on the day of. He was here on the eve (see, it's the food I tell you!) Mom and Dad are away in Florida again this year, something I guess we'll get used to.
The day was spent lounging around playing the two new family games we got. You see we always get a family game. This year we got two and I think they have been the most enjoyed games ever. We got Sequence...a game that my Mom and Dad play all the time on a home made version that they've had for many years! We also got another game called Cross Crib, another game of strategy and cards that we have spent many hours playing!
So you see our holidays have been all about Family and this makes me very happy! Soon it will be back to school for the girls and back to work for me. Rob is already back at work this week and not very happy about it I might add. The last six weeks have seen him spending every last minute working on his wifey's present and now that it's done he needs a vacation! With no vacation time in the near future, I guess the least I can do is cook up the chili and ribs come Superbowl time so that he can enjoy the game in the comfort of his own basement surrounded by big screen tv, beer and friends. That's sometime at the end of January isn't it?
So I'm off to dream of my New Year's resolutions....but before I go, Happy New Year! May all your dreams come true in the upcoming year! May you and your family be happy, healthy and wealthy!
Cheers!
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