So, this year I actually put up all the Christmas cards that I got this year, totalling a whopping 4!!!! Well 5, but I misplaced the last one (shh, don't tell). I am not a card person, so this is quite the accomplishment for me. I also had the most WONDERFUL advent calendar, it was a Lindt chocolate one. Can you say YUMMY?!?!?
So, one of our family traditions that has been for as long as I can remember, is that every Christmas my Dad goes to the meat shop and buys a side of smoked bacon for the holidays. A side of bacon is a LOT of bacon. I think the real reason he buys it, is for the Club Sandwiches using the left over turkey. It also serves as breakfast on Christmas morning, healthy, I know! But tasty!
For those that know me, know that I LOVE presents! I am a snoop! As soon as the first presents appear under the tree I am there lifting the tags to see whom the gifts are addressed to. I can't help it, it is my own personal addiction. I am also the first one up Christmas morning, normally around 6am, but this year I was a bit better, 7am. Since I was up I decided to go check FaceBook and posted this as my status:
'Twas the morning of Christmas and all through the house not a creature
was stirring not even a mouse. Nina sat by her Mac fully awake
in hopes that her family would soon start to wake. The stockings
were stuffed and the presents were wrapped, Nina started feeling her
energy zapped. Since the family's still sleeping all snug in their beds,
Nina too will lay down her still tired head.
Sadly, this little ditty took me about 30min to come up with. Then I did go back to bed until I was woken up but the rest of my family getting up. The we went downstairs and:
One of the things I love doing at Christmas time is Boxing Day shopping! I love it! I now wait until about 9-10am to go as I don't like the waiting outside a store for 2 hours before the store opens. BRRRR! I love the hunting for bargains and beating down old ladies for the last of whatever it is on the shelf that we are both going for!!!! Just kidding about the old ladies. But i do love a good bargain. I am quite happy with my treasures this year. A bunch of movies,some cloths, some odds and ends, some Christmas chocolates and what I consider the crowning glory of my Boxing Day shopping...a 2ft purple tinsel Christmas tree!!!!
Ok, so it may look like the twin sister to Charlie Brown's Christmas Tree, but it's purple, it's shiny and it's all mine!
My brother and I drove down and spent a day in Grand Forks one day this past week. It was fun! I love going down to shop for the day. I love looking to see what they have down in the States that we don't have up here! It would take me hours to list the things they have down there, so I won't. But what I did find was awesome. I found... Coconut-Pecan Frosting!
And I could just imagine how it would taste. So, after we got back, no not that night, I baked a cake using my newest US find as the Piece du Resistance. I have one word to describe my cake...YUMMY! Ok maybe two words...PRETTY!
I had a pedicure! I LOVE pedicures! My toes always look SO pretty afterwards! I took a picture of my toes, and let me just say it was extremely challenging taking a picture of my toes using a tri-pod. I would also like to apologize, I never realized that my feet look like hairless Hobbit feet. However my toenails are still pretty and that is all that counts!
Well, that about covers my Christmas holidays. Hope that yours were a bit more exciting than mine, but just as relaxing. So Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. May the New Year bring you joys unknown.
