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Merry Christmas 2010

Merry Christmas everyone! 

We had a great Christmas morning and the girls were so excited by all of their amazing presents.  They decided this was the best Christmas yet.  Although, I think I hear them say that every year. 

I wanted to share a gift that I got from Lily that I will definitely be enjoying over the next couple of months....

 

The last coupon makes me laugh the most.  How very smart kids are!

Thank you Lily, for the sweetest most priceless gift ever.  I hope you all got one of this homemade gifts that you can cherish forever.

Sick and Other Things

Today was the first day of my vacation that will last all the way through the New Year.  This is one of my favorite times with my family although, same as it happens every year, I always get sick. 

I did manage to lay in bed from 2pm until 8pm tonight, but my morning was filled with three different trips to the girls school.  The first trip was to help Belle make a Gingerbread house.  I did the same thing last year in Lily's class and was so thrilled to be doing it again this year with Belle.

 

 

That event lasted about an hour at which point I went home to get Drew and we headed back to school to have Belle's parent/teacher conference that we missed originally when I took them into the city to see the advanced screening of the latest Harry Potter movie.

When that was over, I dropped Drew at home and headed back to school again to be the mystery reader in Lily's class and I read The Night Before Christmas.  Oh my goodness, the kids in her class were sooo cute.

When I walked in they were all sitting on the carpet waiting for me to start reading.  During the story when I looked up and saw their faces, they were all so mesmerized.  Kids are so cute, a little funny looking and awkward, but in such a cute, sweet way.  Today was a great day for me and the level of participation that I had at my girl's school was much needed. 

After the back and forth to school, Drew and I headed to Abercrombie to pick up some last minute gifts for the girls.  When I got home, I climbed into bed and ate what I always eat when I am sick.......a little something Drew and I like to call Rock 'n Roll ice cream.

Each version of Rock 'n Roll ice cream changes depending on the ingredients in the house, but the taste is always slamming.

 

{This version contained Vanilla Bean ice cream with Christmas colored Oreo's and Trader Joe's Mint Cookies and of course, the final touch, Magic Shell.}

 

I did make it out of bed at 8pm, ate a light dinner, put the girls to bed and must now at 10pm, go join Drew to get a head start on some of the gift wrapping so that we are not up until 1am Christmas morning wrapping presents like we usually are.

I hope you guys are almost done with all of your wrapping too!!

 

Donuts, Beer & Commuting

I am going to post a picture tonight because it makes me laugh outloud when I look at it.  I am almost certain you will not see the humor in it at all, in fact you may even think it is downright stupid but I need to post it anyway.

The backdrop....last night was a rough night for me.  It started with a nearly two hour commute on a night when I really wanted to get home early to meet my girls at the dentist.  It was going to be Belle's first cavity and first shot and she had been nervous about it all weekend.  Nervous, but tough.  Just like Belle.

So earlier in the day I called the dentist's office to ask if the dentist would do that shaking thing that some dentists do to lesson the pain when they give you a shot to numb up your mouth. 

Yes, crazy.  I know.  But I asked.

So when they finished laughing, they said yes of course they would do that, but I thought me being there would provide Belle more comfort than a dentist shaking her face violently.

So I run to Penn Station to catch the train and as I am headed down into the normal track, I see that the train has been cancelled and now combined with a later train.  A later train, that is A LOCAL!!  A local train is a BIG deal because I live on the last stop of the train line and after a long day, taking a local home instead of an express can make you feel like they are never going to get the f**k home. 

And there I was an hour and forty five minutes later, we were delayed and they tortured us by making us sit and wait so the express trains that left Penn Station after us could safely pass.  How does that make any sense at all?

So I finally arrive home and since it was a workout night and I am trying really hard to stick to a workout routine, I actually worked out. 

I finally sit down to eat around 8pm when everyone else was done, and I was not in a pleasant mood at all.  Drew sits down next to me and proceeds to take about 15 minutes without saying a word just fixing, moving things, more fixing and more moving things, lining them up just right, until he was good and ready to start eating his donut and drinking his beer. 

It just made me laugh totally and completely.

 

Fascination with Silver

The walls in our house are covered in muted earth tones and Drew and I both share a love for a simplistic contemporary style. 

BUT I love silver! 

I don't know what it is, but silver is probably one of my favorite colors for just about any piece of furniture or accent piece in my house. 

The only place where my love of silver does not extend to, is my wardrobe.  I do not, nor would I ever own anything silver.  Perhaps a hot dressy tank top could make its way into my wardrobe if I had a darker skin tone, but alas I do not, so I will have to stick with pops of silver in my house and not my closet.

Last year I got these two mini Christmas trees at Home Goods and when I pulled them out the other day I realized I still loved them just as much as the day I bought them.  So they will sit right beside our fireplace allowing Santa to see them when he comes down the chimney to drop off our presents! 

 

 

Have a great weekend everyone!!

 

Tree Trimming

Belle and Lily did a stellar job trimming the tree this year.  Not only was their effort possibly the best one to date, but they seemed to have done it in record time because by the time I finished uploading a few photos from the brunch we had earlier in the day, they were done!  

I was so sad when I realized I had missed my opportunity to videotape and take pictures of them decorting the tree which I am religious about every year since they time they were able to at least sit up next to the tree and hold an ornament without attempting to eat it. 

Much to my surprise on my commute into work Monday morning, I scrolled through my pictures from the weekend as I always do and found about twenty photos of them decorating the tree.   That's exactly why Drew is my main man, always looking out for me.