The only one that knew it wasn't done - was me.....
Once that part was behind me, it turned out to be one of the nicest, most relaxed Christmas' that I can remember. My Mom came over on Christmas Eve to spent the night. After I picked her up, we visited the cemeteries to lay wreathes on the graves, then unloaded Santa's sleigh (um, my car) of packages and placed them around the tree.
The house looked clean and festive (what more could you ask for?) and we had so much fun
baking and cooking. When we finally sat down later in the evening, we watched the White House Christmas on HGTV and cracked open a bottle of wine. We ended up sitting and talking and laughing and talking until 1:30 a.m. -- way past my Mom's bedtime, but, hey, we were having fun. I even finished wrapping the stocking stuffers!Christmas Day was rainy and boy did it rain -- most of the day and night, but at least it didn't start until we got home from Mass.
We opened our gifts, cleared out the wrappings and straightened up the living room before Bob, Lesley and Kylie arrived for more unwrapping. Thankfully, this year everyone was healthy, happy and hungry.
It was just a perfect day. Lots of laughs, good food, good company, wonderful gifts and the Eagles game. I even relaxed my rule of "No TV during dinner" since the Eagles game came on at 5 p.m. Bob was at the foot of the table this year- so he could watch his precious Eagles on TV with his Eagles jersey. The whooping and hollering scared Mom a few times when the Eagles scored - and we did hold off singing "Fly Eagles Fly" until the end of the game (didn't want to jinx them) -- when the Eagles beat the Cowboys!!!
Yes, Christmas just doesn't get any better than this -- thank you elves!!!
2 comments:
I love the tabletop - I have this addiction to table linens. Yours looks like --- home...(A great compliment). Take Care--- Melanie
Thank you, Melanie. I love this tablerunner - it's a shame that I can only use it during Christmas.
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