While it was simply precious to have a White Christmas, it meant that we spent Christmas alone since the particular set of family members due to arrive that day are mostly over OVER 80 years old. Since the Snow Walker (with tennis rackets instead of tennis balls??) has yet to be invented, they did not particularly feel like braving the snow to trudge their way to our house. Losers.
No matter, we enjoyed the slow, relaxing day. I cooked the traditional meal from scratch - stuffing, potatoes, cranberry relish and funeral corn. Since
The day was not a waste - it was nice to just relax in our pajamas and do nothing but eat, watch movies and play with our new toys.
On Saturday, I high-tailed my butt to a shoe store to buy boots. On Friday, I had discovered with horror that I had NO BOOTS because I had given away all of my winterish shoes in the spring - all the shoes that were about 1/2 size too small because no one warns you that giving birth may increase your shoe size. So! New shoes!
That evening, I took Arun for his First Sledding Ever. It was everything I could have hoped for - nice, slick snow, a new sled and a boy squealing with delight. Although, that same boy screamed bloody murder when his butt got too cold and he had to be escorted quickly to the safe confines of the car. I have no pictures from our sledding adventure because I chose to use a vintage recording device instead. My brain. Amazing, yet true! I wanted to just enjoy the moment and be present without worrying over the Perfect Shot.
Overall, it was a nice weekend with few complaints. Yes indeed, Life is good.
How was your holiday?
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The snow never made it this far south. But we had our own version of "relatives stay away!" which was the stomach virus. Although it was less lovely than snow and produced more laundry than the white stuff. It was effective at keeping our house quiet.
And I had some funeral corn last night! I hope you guys enjoyed it.
For some reason, most of your photos are showing up as "unavailable".
I can't see them either. :(
Ditto on the photos, and your weekend sounds wonderful.
Christmas day for us was a lazy affair, too. Pajamas, brunch, ripping open of presents...just wonderful.
Ah, that's better! Sounds like you had a lovely holiday.
The gnome was, indeed, worth waiting for!
glad to see all the photos now, we ventured out in all the white stuff, but my husband did have to do some pushing & shoveling to get us unstuck a few times... glad you had a good time!
We had a sunny green NorCal Christmas and the only crappy part was my mom's bizarro boyfriend. Everything else was awesome. And I can see the photos now. :)
We got the snow down here in Lees Summit too, probably not as much as you but it sure did leave a mess behind. The kids have been making igloos, snowmen, fighting with it and all. I love your pics, by the way I found you by searching momcentral believe it or not. hehe.
We too were lone rangers, our family of course is either in California or Colorado so there wasn't much of a chance of seeing either. Course you gave me a laugh picturing people on walkers with tennis rackets. My kids got their hair done but got breakfast all day, even dinner.
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