Today starts a five day stretch without going to work for both of us. Hooray! The weather has turned cold and snowy, but I've been lucky enough to get a role at work where I don't have to go in every time it snows. So even though I have to carry around my work phone and be on-call for questions, I'm less angry about it snowing. Last year I was working on Christmas Eve until 9 or 10 at night. So this year is a pleasant surprise.
For those of you that blog all the time, I don’t know how you do it. But maybe since I have so many gaps in between posts, I feel like they need to be really cool (which of course they are not). But I figured since I’m on holiday starting today that I would at least give someone else who is on holiday a little something extra to read as you catch up on other people’s blogs.
I don’t really have any pictures to post. I haven’t been using my camera. For awhile one was missing the memory card and the other was completely missing. Cleaning the bedroom found the missing camera and cleaning my sewing room revealed the missing card, so perhaps I’ll start shooting again.
Last Saturday I wish there had been a camera to grab when Santa Claus was escorted through the neighborhood by the police to greet all the children that wanted to run through the snow to say hello and get a bag of goodies. Jeremy then opens the front door and runs outside – BAREFOOT – and wearing shorts and darts across the snowy front lawn towards the tractor with Santa! I think they were all as startled as I was, not sure what to expect. So Santa reached out and gave him a bag of candy and he came running back. I think his feet were so cold that they must have felt bigger, because he said they felt like Hobbit feet across the snow. The next day I could still see the footprints, complete with toe indentations, in the snow but had no camera to document it. But I’m sure you have an image in your head!
I’ll need to take pictures of our living room with holiday decor. The tree is decked with ornaments and ribbon in the corner by the window. In the last month I hung curtains above the windows to hide the boring mini-blinds. I bought some stocking hangers so that our red stockings could dangle off the DVD bookshelf, and was able to use my great-grandfather’s silver candlestick holders in the display. I have to say they look great with mid-green candles in them! I bet his family loved to look at them. It’s nice to have that history to add to the room.
Hmm, what else?
Jeremy's brother flew into town on Sunday and will be here for a week. It's great to see him again - it's been 2 years! He's already not looking forward to going back, but hopefully he will enjoy every minute of time with his family and friends. This afternoon we are all going to the movie Avatar in 3D IMAX, which should be cool.
Otherwise I still have some last-minute shopping to do, wrapping of gifts, hopefully some cookie baking, possibly some more sewing (including finishing a project I started with my mom and sister last year!), and just being on holiday for 5 WHOLE DAYS!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!
