HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
Ok ok, so I've been a bit lazy when it comes to putting up new posts lately. I've been doing other things and just haven't gotten the ambition to write anything new for awhile.
Christmas was so much fun!!! We had everyone at our house this year. Of course when having family come over for the day, one starts the immediate sense of "Oh No, My House isn't clean!!!" So you start running around the house like a chicken with its head cut off finding things to clean in the hopes that once cleaned, will stay clean for ever!! In the real world, it doesn't work that way, so once again you find yourself cleaning the cleaned areas meanwhile forgetting that you have other areas that the family will be in that are in dire need of cleaning. Its enough to drive yourself crazy with. Or at least that how it worked out in my house. So then you get the brilliant idea to make a list of all the possible places that your family will be in and you "hire" your kids and spouse to work on those areas on the list. They too then get stressed out because they know that once their area is cleaned, that ultimately you yourself will go back and re-clean their cleaning. Finally you face the fact that your list of cleaning, is done and you sit back and relax only to realize that what you once thought was clean, is now the biggest mess you have ever had and you start getting upset at the dust bunnies, because they seem to be allergic to cleaned areas. Its a never ending cycle fighting those rotten dust bunnies. Does anyone ever win the fight you seem to find yourself in with those dratted dust bunnies? I don't think so.
So Christmas morning was coming on strong. Chris and I stayed up till about 2am in anticipation of our kids waking up and seeing all the gifts that had their names on them. It was going to be a great year for the kids. Finally, it was time for bed. Now, even though I am a grown up, I was just as excited as the kids for the morning to get here. Chris wakes me up at 5am to say that its time for presents. This is after not only going to bed at 2am, then talking till almost 4am, but now its 5am and we are wide awake. The kids are still sleeping, and so with us getting up for the day, Chris then goes and wakes the kids up. Sammy says that its too early, and Alex says, I don't wanna get up yet. Chris on the other hand wants everyone up and opening presents, because like little kids, he wants his presents right now!!!
So now we are all up and are just getting into our presents when the dust bunnies start dancing and falling from the ceiling fan. It looks as if there was dust bunny snow falling and that created another mess to clean up. The darn thing is, that I had dusted our ceiling, and the fan and yet, those darn dust bunnies decided that having a clean ceiling and fan was the wrong environment in which they live. So we then finish with opening our gifts and start the cleaning process all over again. Meanwhile Chris is in the kitchen getting our Christmas meal going. This in turn creates a million dishes, causing the kids to get all upset because its their job to do the dishes.
Finally after another run through the house, going over the cleaning list to make sure things are still cleaned, our family comes to the house.
We had so much fun!!
Ok ok, so I've been a bit lazy when it comes to putting up new posts lately. I've been doing other things and just haven't gotten the ambition to write anything new for awhile.
Christmas was so much fun!!! We had everyone at our house this year. Of course when having family come over for the day, one starts the immediate sense of "Oh No, My House isn't clean!!!" So you start running around the house like a chicken with its head cut off finding things to clean in the hopes that once cleaned, will stay clean for ever!! In the real world, it doesn't work that way, so once again you find yourself cleaning the cleaned areas meanwhile forgetting that you have other areas that the family will be in that are in dire need of cleaning. Its enough to drive yourself crazy with. Or at least that how it worked out in my house. So then you get the brilliant idea to make a list of all the possible places that your family will be in and you "hire" your kids and spouse to work on those areas on the list. They too then get stressed out because they know that once their area is cleaned, that ultimately you yourself will go back and re-clean their cleaning. Finally you face the fact that your list of cleaning, is done and you sit back and relax only to realize that what you once thought was clean, is now the biggest mess you have ever had and you start getting upset at the dust bunnies, because they seem to be allergic to cleaned areas. Its a never ending cycle fighting those rotten dust bunnies. Does anyone ever win the fight you seem to find yourself in with those dratted dust bunnies? I don't think so.
So Christmas morning was coming on strong. Chris and I stayed up till about 2am in anticipation of our kids waking up and seeing all the gifts that had their names on them. It was going to be a great year for the kids. Finally, it was time for bed. Now, even though I am a grown up, I was just as excited as the kids for the morning to get here. Chris wakes me up at 5am to say that its time for presents. This is after not only going to bed at 2am, then talking till almost 4am, but now its 5am and we are wide awake. The kids are still sleeping, and so with us getting up for the day, Chris then goes and wakes the kids up. Sammy says that its too early, and Alex says, I don't wanna get up yet. Chris on the other hand wants everyone up and opening presents, because like little kids, he wants his presents right now!!!
So now we are all up and are just getting into our presents when the dust bunnies start dancing and falling from the ceiling fan. It looks as if there was dust bunny snow falling and that created another mess to clean up. The darn thing is, that I had dusted our ceiling, and the fan and yet, those darn dust bunnies decided that having a clean ceiling and fan was the wrong environment in which they live. So we then finish with opening our gifts and start the cleaning process all over again. Meanwhile Chris is in the kitchen getting our Christmas meal going. This in turn creates a million dishes, causing the kids to get all upset because its their job to do the dishes.
Finally after another run through the house, going over the cleaning list to make sure things are still cleaned, our family comes to the house.
We had so much fun!!
So as you can see by the pictures, Christmas was really fun. This Christmas I had decided that I was going to make it "Traditional and New." I had made quite a few presents, and there were a few store bought ones as well. Because this is what I had named Christmas this year, my kids decorated the tree with mostly home made/school made ornaments. I completely left it up to them.
We had lots of food too. Ham and scallop potatoes, a green salad, cake, cookies, punch and much more. We all ate till we couldn't eat anymore.
Thank you's go out to my family for having a Wonderful Christmas. I hope you think back on it often and have a smile. Love you guys!!!!
2 comments:
We had a fun time and enjoyed the day completely! Thank you for having us and for making this Christmas so special! Love you!
I'm so glad you had a great time. I wanted everyone to feel Christmas-ey and laugh. I got that.
In all the pictures, we are all either laughing, smiling, or have twinkles in our eyes.
That made my Christmas!!!!
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