How was your Christmas?

We all had a wonderful time!

On Monday afternoon, Rick was working in the basement. I went down and asked him if he would put up the Tacky White Tree (TWT). We didn't have it up last year, largely because of Tabby, and I really missed it. This year, I wanted the tree, regardless of the cats killing it. Pretty soon Rick came upstairs with the tree box and he put the tree up. While he was doing that I made him sticky buns.....that man loves sticky buns; he could eat a half-dozen at one sitting. And then while the dough was rising, I put the blue balls on my TWT. Stood back, took a couple pictures and said, "Merry Christmas, Mom!" (When we were growing up, Mom always had her white tree decorated with blue balls. I thought it was tacky, disgustingly so. But several years ago, I decided I wanted a TWT of my own. And the rest is history. Our TWT always goes into the kitchen.) And yeah, the "kittens" got into the tree. No balls have been dropped or broken, but the poor tree limbs may not make it through New Year's Day! That darn Tabby! And Muffin isn't helping things any.   But I was happy because I had my TWT and Rick was happy because he had his sticky buns.

Yesterday Rick's parents and my family came here for dinner and we had a blast. I always have my brother and SIL bring the wine and we always wonder what kind of wine they're going to bring (this time it was a bottle of merlot and a bottle of blackberry....that blackberry was delicious!) We had dinner and dessert (and I had two pieces of coconut cake! Two of 'em! My sister and I had thought about that cake all day! We just love coconut cake.) and then we opened gifts. We all had such a good time. Rick and I didn't get much for each other (because of the kitchen), so it was nice to have a few gifts to open from everybody else.

Had to do a bit of work last night. I've been working on a graphics project for here at work and I haven't had time to get it all done at work, so I brought it home with me and finally found some time last night to get it done.....only a few minor details and then I can turn it in this morning.

We don't know now about Saturday with the kids. It seems that a major snow storm may be working its way up the coast to hit us on Saturday. If that happens, the kids won't be able to come up. Now we're thinking of getting together on Sunday instead. But we'll see.

We are to get hit today, too. Starting early this afternoon with snow showers, then all snow for awhile, before changing over to sleet and freezing rain, then rain overnight, ending with a wintry mix tomorrow morning. Driving home from work this afternoon might be a wee bit tricky. Rick took Hannah (the Tucson) to church on Christmas Eve and we had 2-1/2 inches of snow then...he said that Hannah did very well in all-wheel drive; she went right up our hills and the driveway with no trouble. After driving Clarence, the PT Cruiser, for the last 12 years and slip-sliding all over the place during the winter, Hannah should be a joy to drive. We got her last year right after Thanksgiving, but never had a chance to check her out in the snow as we didn't get much in the way of snow last year.

So that was our Christmas. It was really nice (even though it was our first Christmas without Mom) and we enjoyed being together.

How was your Christmas? Did you all have a nice time? Did Santa bring you what you wanted? MargeCat, how is your DH feeling?

Read my thread I started here Emotional Christmas. I am glad you and your family had a great time. We Chriustmased on Saturday with son and family including new grand baby. I can't get enough holding him. Then yesterday as stated in my thread here we spent the day with daughter. It was very nice, all of it. Hubby gave me a machine that has a turn table, C/D player and cassette on it. Records and cassettes can be converted to C.D's. I have so many old cassettes and wanted to transfer them to C/D's because every C/D player I get eventually bites the dust and it is becoming harder and harder to find one. Happy New Year dear friends.

My Christmas wasn't very good, unfortunately. I'm glad its over...but I certainly hope everyone else had a wonderful Christmas!

Pam, glad you enjoyed your holiday.  I spent mine with the family also and then spent time with Russell's family, it was a very nice day with good people and good food. 

I had a few drinks, I wasn't driving so it didn't matter I just felt guility cuz I'm on meds and shouldn't really be drinking but I don't drink as often as I used to. Later last night we just chilled out, we were both so tired, I don't know from what...I certainly didn't do much.  All in all it was a very nice Christmas and hope everyone else enjoyed it too.
 

My christmas was really lovely!.. Theresia get early to sleep so we was on our beds at 11:45 pm of the 24!..

( she awake at 25 at 6:30 am..:hmm: ..)
but was a good time my friends!...

I had a wonderful Christmas. Nice and quiet enjoyed hubby and the kids, playing with there presents. A nice family dinner. It was a quiet peaceful family day.

Mine was wonderful. The entire family went home this year and it was great seeing all of my brothers. We had such a great time! Unfortunately I spent far too much time driving and today I am just plain old worn out :lol3:

My Christmas was wonderful with my parents, my brother, and me. And our pets of course. My brother lives 2 hours away... but was here since Saturday til yesterday afternoon. We had a great holiday and I hope my brother will be back soon because we miss him already. He tries to get here when he can but works full time and is in college. But he comes on the weekends when he gets time off. I hope you all did have a nice holiday too.

It was my baby granddaughter's first Christmas that she could really open presents and be all excited. She is a little over a year old, last Christmas she spent the day sleeping zipped up in my hoodie, all 5 lbs of her. This year she was running around like a little whirling dervish, in to everything. We had so much fun with her. I wish her older sister, Olivia, would have been there, but she went with her dad.

 Raven, the baby, didn't care much for Santa, though. A dear friend that plays Santa at his church and several other places came by her birthday party That kinda kicked off the holiday season. He tried to hold Raven long enough to get a pic, but she was having none of it, not even with Daddy or Grandpa with her. Olivia was madly excited. I went to the bedroom where dd and the girls were and told Olivia that a special friend of ours heard there was a specially good little girl there an wanted to say hello. About that time Santa called out HO HO HO, and her head perked up, and she ran into the living room, stopped short, ran and hugged Santa so hard, she almost bowled him right over. We took pics, but I haven't seen them yet. I hope they caught the wide eyed expression when she stopped for that split second. That would be priceless.

I hope everyone else had a Merry Christmas.

Christmas was great!  For once I didn't over gorge at dinner. I had one helping and that was that. I had a snack later of more ham though.  Tons of fun. We played a game called "Things", where you are given a question and everyone writes down an answer to it, and you go around the circle trying to guess who gave what answer to the question.  I can't say we were always politically correct, but some of the answers were really off the wall. Lots of laughs.

Delightful.  Stayed at home with the ladies and in the afternoon, watched it snow until dark.

We had a very nice Christmas. My first one without kids, and being divorced, but it was ok anyway. I spent a lot of time on my feet, cooking, but it was worth it. I had lots of fun opening my Secret Santa gifts!

Spent a nice Christmas a our nephew's house. Kids had a ball. We got to meet Scott's girlfriend's mom (met her dad Thanksgiving). Very nice people. They have a house in Florida and one in Conn. Scott loves to cook but they eat late - and this year is was even later -- 9 pm (way too late for us!). It's an hour's drive and we didn't get home til midnight. Haven't been out that late in ages. (are we becoming old fuddy-duddies?).


Scott and Danielle gave us a digital picture frame which we had really wanted. Now I just hve to figure out how to work it. Put the memory card in and saw all our pics, but couldn't figure out how to save the pictures. After an hour of frustration I gave up. Called Radio Shack and they said to come in with the instructions and they'll show us how to do it. So much for the "mechanically challenged".

Christmas was okay. Surprisingly mostly drama free... Christmas eve we went over to BF's mom's house. I wasn't thrilled, tense relationship between the mom and I currently, but I went to avoid drama, fighting, and I didn't want to affect our relationship by not going. Woke up early on the 25th and had breakfast with BF's dad, stepmom, brother, and brother's wife (it was only supposed to be four of us though). Then we drove to NC to visit with my parents for a few hours, eat dinner, and chat. My parents mostly stayed civil while we were there. My grandma told them its one of the reasons I don't visit as much - because they can't manage to speak like normal people to each other, it's always arguing and yelling. But they've been better at it. My brother and I got along pretty well too (the last few times we've gone up, he's disappeared out the door and barely talked). Came back and opened up the furbabies' gifts for them, and a few of ours we already knew about and relaxed.

There was a bit of a weird time too... Later, my dad brought upstairs a little racecar that my ex sent him a couple weeks ago (I was unaware until recently that my dad and ex-husband are still talking regularly, and that my ex sent him a package with a little TQ racecar made out of a sparkplug and some metal...) and he was showing it to the BF, telling him how cool it was. My dad's been talking about my ex and my ex's girlfriend/baby's mother like I care to know all about their lives .... its kind of weird lol. We are still friends on FB, so I don't really need my dad giving me updates about what they are doing and talking about their baby like I need updates.

But all in all it was an alright holiday. This year I was feeling kind of Grumpy-Cat Bah-Humbuggy about it but it wasn't as bad as anticipated.

I caught a cold a couple days before Christmas and felt like poo.  I started to get over it and caught something else.  The second one is really bad.  I have lost my voice with this one and depending on who you talk to, could be a good or bad thing!