It has been a wonderful Christmas celebration time and a pleasant vacation from school. While the temps are really low, it looks as though tomorrow will dawn as a school day. With the exception of snow days, it will be 11 weeks until Spring Break. I look forward with anticipation to the "Spring" part. After Christmas is over, I'm ready for May and warmer temperatures. It has been a busy two weeks. When school dismissed for the holidays, I still had some shopping to do, groceries to buy, and some entertaining plans to organize. All packages were wrapped by Christmas Eve.
On Sunday, we began officially celebrating by having lunch with my mom and dad. Our children from NOLA joined us and we enjoyed a great time.
Tuesday morning, we had Christmas Eve brunch for my family and invited the Putman family to join us. It's a pleasant time to enjoy family and create memories minus the excitement of opening the gifts saved for Christmas day.
We started Christmas day about 11 having lunch with my mom and dad.
After sharing gifts, we made a afternoon trip home for Ben to get a nap. Once he was awake, we went to share the afternoon with Collin's mom and dad for a while.
Getting back to our house, we got comfortable and opened our gifts. It was a great day.
Our kiddos left for NOLA Saturday morning. I had several errands and left behind them. In the afternoon, Colln and I attended a wedding, but upon arriving home, we decided to take down the tree and decorations. It was time to take down, clean up, and put away. This led to a week long adventure of cleaning our storage, shop, and house. We have stacked items for a rummage sale, but have also cleaned out and thrown away. It is amazing how things accumulate. I've also had some time to ponder, evaluate, and consider goals for the new year. We have been blessed this last year and we are thankful. We are rich with family and friends.
Happy New Year
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