What I loved about Christmas. what I didn't!

Christmas was different this year, some for the better, some for the worse! I loved the fact that I started shopping early but I didn't stop... I just kept going so did the early start help or didn't it? If I had started later the stopping point would have come sooner.
The colored lights on the tree grew on me and I actually think "given a choice" I would go that route NOW but I wasn't given a choice so is accepting the lights a good thing eventhough I accepted with a far from joyful heart?
I really gave alot of thought to the gifts I bought this year and wanted to be sure I bought the things that my family would love! I think I did good. I had a little Christmas note book and I used it religiously! It kept me on track! Also, I saved every receipt! In the past I haven't done so well with that one.. :/
Once again we did 3 Christmases LITERALLY in a row and I wish that was different.. I love doing our gifts on Christmas morning. I think its great doing Christmas Eve gift giving with our families but I will never stop pulling for Christmas morning at home.
I did however like the way we opened our gifts at home... taking turns, opening one gift at a time. It took about an hour and a half.... like I said I didn't know when to stop shopping!
I over baked and over ate! I baked alot of sweets and cooked alot of food and most of the time it was Jeff and I ....no Brooke, Justin or Matt! That was different but I knew that day was coming and it was an eye opener in many ways. About the over eating... got to get a grip! Top of my New Years resolution list... LOOSE WEIGHT! We'll have to see how that goes! ;)

The MOM MUG

THE MOM MUG
I have decided this mug will probably be the highlight of my day! Woke up to the jingle bells text alert on my phone saying church had been cancelled. I thought to myself this will be a long day. Although, I'm not sure why I looked at it like that because yesterday I had decided not to go. I got up, took a shower, took the dogs out, picked up AND this house is a Christmas diseaster STUFF everywhere! Next, I started a load of clothes, out of my p.j.'s into BLAH comfy clothes (which has become my daily attire!) I am almost certain if I didn't work I would never wear make-up and everything would have an elastic waist! ugh! :/ Anyways, grabbed my Christmas Nook (have to say NOT loving it) and decided to try for the hundreth time to actually download a book and once again that didn't happen! I am sure there are people that love the Nook, I'm just not one of them. After that I made coffee and poured it into the MOM MUG with egg nog latte creamer and decided then and there THAT would be as good as this snow day would get! Which leads me to this-the things I got for Christmas that I loved were...the MOM MUG, a pair of green dangly earrings ( I have started loving dangling earrings) the coolest reading glasses ever, fleece pajama pants and the cutest, hard to find, pick of the season UGG boots! I can say that because the men in the family don't blog!
I looked and felt like crap yesterday, like I had been hit by a truck but I had on my new green earrings and I can already tell the MOM MUG will be in the dishwasher everytime it runs! Have a nice Sunday and enjoy... I am going to TRY to do the same! :/

Sad but True

This is my "sad but true" list, here goes:

1. I said I would be a better blogger (end of November) and this is my ONLY December blog!

2. Life is full of surprises, not all of them are good ones!

3. I will never be thin!

4. 2/3's of my life is over.

5. If I could do it all over again... I WOULDN'T !

6. I'm tired on many different levels!

7. Sophie can take me or leave me... I think she would say leave me!

8. Today is Christmas and I'm sitting downstairs watching Christmas with the Kranks ALONE!

9. Things are very rarely how they appear.

10. Hot flashes are here to stay! :/

I hope all you bloggers had a Merry Christmas! I must say mine was a different one to say the least!