Christmas 2008

Things to remember about this Christmas...

* As always, super excited and could not wait for it to get here, then it did! Yikes, I'm behind...is that really any different than anything for me?
* I never quit complaining about being tired.
* Christmas snow happened 15 days early. :)
* HE went crazy shopping. I never wanted to shop, so on Dec. 23, I was still trying and had given up on shipping out the presents that needed to leave the city.
* He's helped with tamale making in years past. This year he was a HUGE help decorating the cookies.

* I had no desire to eat a single Christmas cookie. So very unlike me!
* Mom got her diagnosis...but that's a topic for another day.
* No Christmas will ever be the same. :)

Bah Humbug!

Yep, I'm becoming old Ebenezer. It's not that I don't want Christmas, it's that I'm too tired to get ready for it!

There's so much to do -- the decorating, the shopping, the baking, the planning, the partying, etc., etc. I'm just too exhausted to do any of those things, despite the fact that I would really like to do all of them! We didn't even decorate this year; we're taking the year off...or at least the next few months. I hear of lots of good sales at the stores and I would LOVE to just go shop 'til I drop! I've tried, more than once! I've dropped too quickly! When I shop on Saturday, I spend Sunday catching up on things around the house and wanting to be sleepy with the pups! When I shop on Sunday, I'm useless on Monday. I'm sure the boss just loves that! :)

Well, I'm sure a bit more of the shopping will get done, but I'm not sure about the rest of the list. The baking, one of my favorite holiday activities, will happen this weekend...all in one shot, whatever gets baked, gets baked and whatever doesn't, we'll miss this year! And if all of this means I'm more like old Ebenezer this year, so be it! Bah, humbug!

Snowy Night, too!

Well, we had our little flurry during the day yesterday. Then, last night we were so graciously invited to dinner. When we were leaving, we couldn't believe the blanket of white over the yards -- and especially the cars! We made a couple of stops on our way home. At one house, we noticed a young couple desperately trying to rake up the snow on the ground, I'm sure to build a snow man. We saw a few cars with mini-snowmen on them. What people do in the south with a little snow!



Well, we, too were some of those people! We got home, I took pictures of the house with the snow. Then HE took the pups for a walk -- they had to be walked in the snow! He said it was important for them to experience a walk in the snow. (Yes, we're talking about dogs, but he's just so darn caring!)

When they returned, he came in and said I had to come outside. He had found a good accumulation of snow that we could play in. He was so right! At 10 PM we were outside making snowballs and playing in the snow! Rita, the beagle, just loved it! She ran around like crazy and was biting our snowballs.

Of course, we weren't out for long, but it sure was fun to just act crazy! Sadly, before we went to sleep last night, we looked outside, and it was all melted. Ahhh, snow in the south -- arrives and departs very unexpectedly!

Snowing

That's Daisy, see the little flakes on her side???



See those white streaks, yep, snow! Can you believe it?

That's my excitement for the day, week, maybe even month! Yeah!!

One me, two blogs

I really like this blogging world. I'm so lucky Heather introduced it to me. You won't hear me call this an addiction, but it is quite the way I have learned to kill a few hours.

I started another blog a few months ago, but I wanted to keep it quiet. I have kept it relatively quiet. It is not been easy to keep the two of me from intermingling and honestly, I'm not sure if they should be separate or not. But, if you click over there on the profile, you can get to that "other" blog.

This one, will hopefully be more about me. That one over there, yeah, it'll be more about "us". They're both live for now, if for some reason I decide to silence one, I'll let you know.