Making The Most Of A Christmas Gift
First of all, I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas! For the first time in over 100 years, we had an actual White Christmas here in Dallas. It snowed all day on Christmas Eve and on Christmas morning, it looked like this….
Christmas Day was fantastic. Lots of good food, family and fun. Possibly a little too much wine but that’s a story for another day.
(Also, by way of estimate, right now I’d say at the end of this week I will weigh approximately 10 lbs more then when this holiday started. Some call it a muffin top, I like to think of it as a holiday souvenir that will magically disappear on January 1st….I’m all about the optomism during the holidays.)
Now we are starting the really good part….a full week off to enjoy our loot from this year and kick back after the hussle and bussle of pulling Christmas off. When it’s all said and done, I will have gotten to visit with friends I don’t get to see on a regular basis, family that I need to spend more time with and most especially, I will have had a week with my husband and kids who I can’t get enough of. I got a lot of great stuff for Christmas, but this week off was the best gift of all and I plan to use it to it’s fullest.
So, this is a long way of saying I’m taking the week off. I mean really taking it off….no blogging, very little facebooking or twitter. (I’d like to say no facebooking or twitter…but seriously, let’s not get carried away here…)
I hope you all enjoy the rest of the holiday season and have a fantastic New Year celebration planned….be good, and if you can’t be good, be careful!
Cheers!
TSM
I’ve got your ten and raise you 15. FIFTEEN.
YIKES! If my mom saw the picture she’d say those kiddos need coats! LOL – gotta love mom!
~WM
Snow!! I lived in Texas for the first 30 years of my life (grew up in Austin, then Dallas for the last 10) and an actual White Christmas was something I always dreamed of! SO LUCKY! Who knows, maybe some day it will snow here in Los Angeles. Naaaaahhhh.
My relatives in the DFW area were all agog over the snow – The Young One griped that he went to Texas to get away from the snow only to be met with…more snow. Oh, well, at least he didn’t have to shovel it while he was there.
I took last week off. It was MARVELOUS. Enjoy your bloggy vacation!
Enjoy a fun and relaxing time with your family.
Enjoy your respite! And happy new decade!
If you figure out how to make the souvenir magically disappear, please do let me know.
Enjoy your week and your snow. It sounds lovely.
I’m eating my way to my own souvenir over here.
I can’t believe y’all got so much snow! What a great Christmas!
Enjoy your time off Stiletto! Happy and Healthy to you and yours!!
That’s a good bit of snow, and look at those cute kids! Glad you had a great time, and enjoy the blog break. Happy 2010!
We in Houston were jealous of your white Christmas. Not your closed roads, traffic standstills and million fender-benders, though.
Enjoy your week.
back atchya
have a most happy holiday
Wasn’t the snow grand! As for muffin tops, don’t worry. The older we get, the faster it comes off. Err, umm, right?
Cheers.
Can dudes get muffin tops?
That makes me just a little bit bummed that we weren’t in Dallas for Christmas like I’d planned.
Have a great break!
I can’t believe it snowed in Dallas! Still shocked. I hope you are having a good week off. I pretty much took all of December off and it was lovely.
I hope your week off is going wonderfully!! Happy New Year to you and yours.
I have relatives in Flower Mound, and they had such great snow shots!
LOVED your post on holiday cards. Such great ideas! And I like yours better than the Taylor Swift one.
Really.
Happy New Year!
It’s a crazy world when Dallas gets snow and we here in North Alabama don’t even get one little flake! Hope you have a wonderful New Year.
Glad your kids were able to enjoy a white Christmas!
what is this stuff called snow?
A week off!? What a Christmas present. And snow on Christmas Day? Awesome. We don’t get that very often here either. Like so seldom that local travel companies offer free flights or jewelers give you your money back if it does snow Xmas day. But our rain was very festive.
Happy New Year
Taking the week off? Shame I mean good on you hon, hope you have a nice break!
What’s that snow doing there in Dallas? I hope it didn’t follow me down there from Michigan! It is pretty isn’t it?
I ‘d like to see some updated data on the global warming research.