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Some scenes from our day!
ornaments on the tree!
1st grader with his new
Spiderman3 Shirt!
Photographer Daughter holding up her
new white sweater we gave her!
luckyI hope you and yours had a wonderful day yesterday! I wish I could say our day was quiet, controlled, and short! No I don't wish that! I wouldn't have had it any other way! Noisy - movie playing, kids playing, and all of us talking. Chaotic - not so much, but at certain times there were boxes, paper, bags and parts of toys scattered hither & yon. Short - no way! Time actually went by pretty fast and some of us didn't eat our 2nd Christmas dinner until way late!
First Grader said Santa brought him everything he always wanted - which was actually a good thing since every time I asked him what he wanted Santa to bring, he'd respond "I'm not telling YOU!" Clothes fit him and he stayed busy playing with every Spiderman toy, Star Wars toy, Transformer Toy and Hot Wheels car that Santa brought. His Auntie & Uncle and cousins gave him a Spiderman 3 Monster Truck - which the dog just hates! He's having a grand time with that truck. And the stories he makes up about what Spiderman can do and what the "bad" guys are doing, are so imaginative!
Senior Daughter actually liked the clothes I bought for her! Guess it just took me awhile to figure out her "style". She spent lots of time reading the Ripley's book she got for Christmas. Loved the DVD's she received and we watched both Addams family movies last night. I hadn't really seen them before - boy, the movies are a little more "dark" than the TV show was!
The Dog loved her gifts - pig ears and a pig hoof! She chewed & chewed on that hoof! Took it outside but was constantly on guard in case something or someone else tried to take it! She wasn't too thrilled with all the people (baby especially) or toys that moved or made lots of noise. She did, however, enjoy her Christmas dinner.
Hubby played his Sudoko game most of the day. I think his favorite gift came from our niece. She sent wonderful literature and great framed picture of the castle that is purported to be an ancestral home in my husband's lineage (in England). I couldn't tell her thank you enough for that gift. She sent me a beautiful ceramic refrigerator magnet from her trip to Germany recently. I'm so afraid it will break that I won't put it on the fridge. Hubby also liked the DVD's, gift cards, and tools he received.
Photographer Daughter (GO TO HER WEBSITE: http://www.yourlongtermmemories.com) received a fantastic gift from her husband - a Digital SLR camera. She'll have so much enjoyment out of learning all the things it can do! I thought she took great pictures before - I can't wait to see the photos she takes with this camera! That was my wish for her - to have a professional camera!
Son-in-law received several gifts he can use and enjoy. Have I told you how blessed we are to have such a wonderful, caring, and hard-working Son-in-law? I'm so thankful that he is part of our family (course, I'm sure there are times he wonders about us all!)
Florida Daughter sounded like she had a great Christmas! Her fiance' gifted her with a new, big jewelry box that she raved about. I can't wait to hear how her Christmas dinner turned out! When I talked to her, she had pies cooking, a turkey in the oven of her family down the street and doing a ham in her oven!
Florida Son had to work and called late in the afternoon. I know he wished he was with family and we sure wish he'd been with us, but to know that he is healthy and happy and taking care of business, is comforting.
Extended family chimed in through the day - either with us calling them or they called us. All in all it was a Great Day!
How was your's?
caffeinatedSo Christmas got me thinking on some of my favorite gifts over the years and not just the ones from Christmas:
Gifts of Children - Each of my children. What a wonderful, delightful, and beautiful gift each one has been (although there have been times . . . no, seriously . . . ) - they were born healthy and have grown into wonderful adults
Gifts of Childhood - My doll babies. Each year as a young girl I'd get to pick out of the Sears catalog the ONE doll that I couldn't live without.
Gifts of Love - Gifts my husband has given me - just because he shows me how much he loves me with whatever he's given me!
Gifts of Surprise - Gifts my children have given me - too numerous over the years to list - but they have always given me gifts that I won't part with!
Gifts of Baked Goods - All the homemade goodies friends and family have given us! Nothing says love or friendship like handmade cookies, cakes, breads, etc.!
Gifts of Family - Family visiting from out of town on Christmas. When my first daughter was born, I stated that while I had small children that Santa Claus needed to visit, I wasn't going to travel anywhere so it's always been wonderful when family comes.
Gifts of food - The Turkey a friend dropped by one year when we were struggling. We didn't even realize that they could tell we were in need.
Gifts of music - from all the LP's my family gifted me with as a teenager - to concerts my husband has taken me to - to a cassette tape someone made for us of music they had recorded.
What have been your favorite gifts?
celebratoryWHOO!!! Wrapping is almost done! Still have my daughter's & her family's presents to wrap yet. At least I know I won't be up 'til the cows come home 3 a.m. Christmas Eve - well I guess that would actually be Christmas by then, right?
Slept funny so my neck has a "crick" in it (yeah, I'm from Ohio & that's what we say - go ahead, make fun of me!) Put heat on it & laid down for awhile. Hubby took Senior Daughter to work & took 1st grader with him so they could wander the local sportsman/outdoor store for awhile. Had a nice nap - yet the "ouchie" is still there - not as bad tho.
Yeah, I think I'm ready for Christmas! Have so many cookies here, we'll be waddling around in the days to come! My wonderful next door neighbor brought us some home baked cookies - they are so good! Want my cookies to turn out as well - they never do so I guess I need to stop trying!
Are you ready yet?
Will be back after Christmas so from me to you - may your family have a Healthy and Happy Merry Christmas!
incredulouswhy is there only 3 days left before Christmas?!
It's not like I don't know what day it is. It's just that one person can only do so much and I think right now I'm in the "don't wanna do it" mindset. Usually happens this close to Christmas. Which explains why for more years than I can count, I'm rushing around at the last minute getting those "last minute" gifts (they are only last minute because we wait that long!), baking cookies, and wrapping. OMG - WRAPPING! I've decided that to accomplish all this I really need:
Oh, wait a minute - my family already thinks I have all those people - they think it's me! Wow, how have I managed to pull the wool over their eyes for so long?! To tell you how time crunched I feel - I had a fleeting thought about ordering pizza on Christmas day - to get out of cooking! Yeah, nothing says Christmas like Dominos Pepperoni pizza!
So tell me, have you suddenly (after many years) decided to change your Christmas dinner, present exchange, or something else so drastic that your family thought the sky would fall in and the earth would open up and swallow you whole? What? And did it make the day seem less chaotic? I'm all for suggestions! Please leave some!
incredulousSo what happened to December? I remember when it started but I sure didn't realize that the 21st would fall the day after so close behind! I do remember sleeping sometime and drinking coffee - ok, LOTS of coffee, and doing some shopping, but seriously the TWENTY FIRST OF DECEMBER IS TODAY?
So the party yesterday for First Grader's class went very well! I feel so lucky that at least 5 other parents showed up - including one who is also a teacher at the same school (for a few minutes at least!). There was plenty of food (so I could grumble about parents not letting me know that they were bringing tons of goodies - but I'm too thankful for that!), wonderful music - courtesy of the Christmas CD the school choir and each grade recorded, happy children, and smiling faces all around. The Holiday craft - no, we're not supposed to utter the "Christmas" word for fear of offending someone - was jingle bell bracelets and necklaces - which went over VERY well! It was simple, the mess was very contained which mainly consisted of beads & bells rolling off the table, and cleaned up fast! It took just the right amount of time, too. I guess my "Room Mom Super Powers" arrived in the nick of time! Now, they'll be gone again until at least the week of the Valentine's class party! I don't call on those super powers very often as I'm afraid I'll end of volunteering for PTA President or something like that!
Oh, you wanted to know how much wrapping I've accomplished? Zilch. Zero. Nada. Unless you count the gifts I had to ship out - those I wrapped - or my husband's "gift swap" gift for work - I also wrapped that. But the stuff that goes under the tree - nope. Still sitting in the same bags they were in when I carried them out of the store. Maybe tonight?
So are you ready?
coolFavorite Christmas Songs (tho in no particular order!) - and I'm not including the artist because, well, it's 7:24 a.m. & I've had NOT enough coffee yet to even remember!
Yeah, I'm sure there's more but again - NOT enough coffee yet!
Movies I like to watch during the Holiday Season:
Again, I know I've forgotten some "classics" or those which are not so classic, but I haven't had enough coffee yet to process what I've seen in the (no number given) years I've been on this earth!
Other stuff I really enjoy at Christmas:
So what are your favorite things at Christmas time?
mischieviousSo I went to --- today and picked up ----- for ------ (CAUGHT YA! YOU THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO ANNOUNCE WHERE I WENT SHOPPING AND WHAT I BOUGHT!) No Dice! My children read this blog & I can't be announcing all over the web what I bought them for Christmas. So you - and they - will have to wait until at least Dec. 26th!
I left for my shopping bonanza at 8:30 a.m. - first stop Post Office to pick up something from a relative that needed a signature. Then over to the new stores at a town north of me - wow they have a Coldwater Creek store! Hit about 4 shops over in that section, then went to ship gifts to the Missouri relatives before heading to the bank at the very opposite end of town & then grabbing some Popeyes cajun rice & mashed 'taters for lunch.
Somehow I have to figure out when to wrap! Midnight Christmas Eve?!
don't askWell right now I feel like I'm back in the summer - except for the cold & damp. The saying in our neck of the woods - "if you don't like the weather, stick around. It'll change every 10 minutes." The change is basically rain & then some misty rain, then a downpour, then nothing, then a couple sprinkles, & on & on! And why is it that when it's rainy & icky (that's my "meterological" term for the day!) - that's when I have to get out in it!
Put a pot of vegetable soup on the stove to simmer all afternoon. I really love soup so in a way, it's nice that it's soup eatin' weather! But I still wish it would either just rain, stop or go away.
What's your day like?
sillyHere's the picture of 1st grader & Santa that I was NOT supposed to take!
Enjoy!
