I suppose I should put a little down on Christmas this year (if you read the last post, you can see I just found another thing to procrastinate)
The weekend before Xmas, we went to Fort Wayne with a car sick Cloudy. Went to RAW’s 2nd cousin’s house for a family get together.
For the actual day of Xmas, we stayed home as usual. We went to St Bedes for Xmas eve service. We sat in the balcony whicch would of been nice if it wasn’t for the 2 year old up there who if wasn’t whining, was trying to jump from the edge. Oh that kid made me nervous, more nervous apparently than her mother.
Some of what Hollace got this year was an Easy Bake Over, her Pet Shop Playground (what she has been asking for for months), a Hot Wheels pirate track, a monkey baby puppet (she now knows that Santa shops at Rain Forrest Cafe) and Madagascar, the movie. I got RAW a lantern that he really likes. He got me a Russian, German, Polish cook book. Huh? I hate Russian, German and Polish food. Really the Kitchen Aid mixer was his gift to me and the surround stereo for the TV was my gift to him.
On Tuesday we headed out to Crown Point to see my side of the family. As usual, I didnt coordinate with my sisters. I had to go back to work on Thursday so Wednesday was the only day I got to hang with them.
Now that I am old, I stress out over comfortable sleeping arrangements. The last few times we went to my folks, we got a hotel (oh how grown up). This time we didn’t. I brought the air mattress and bed and a down comforter and our own pillows and made the best of it. It wasn’t too bad.
We left Hollace in Crown Point to hang with her cousins until they left on Saturday (yesterday). We picked her up when they passed throught town to go back to Wisconsin.
When we got home, we found that Cloudy knocked down the Xmas tree and broke a red bulb which I quickly swooped down on and photographed.
On Friday night me and RAW tried to take advantage of our childnessless and went to Red Lobster (mom gave us a gift certificate) then to Target to spend a GC I had from my birthday, then to Menards for a closet door for the computer room, the to Border for a GC that RAW had. Then finally to the video rental place. We rented Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) Cute movie.
Last night was New Years Eve. I made the yearly cheese ball and cheese dip and grabbed our confetti sticks and rang in the new year fairily typical.