Lot's of mistletoe.
Lot's of snow and ice,
Everywhere we go.
Choirs singing carols,
Right outside my door.
All these things and more...
That's what Christmas means to me...
This Christmas was the first time I was coming home not as a student, but as a grown up with a grown up job. Weird, I know, because I still talk about Santa like he's real, and I'm a huge cookie connoisseur. But, I did take off a few extra days from work and the big city and came home to spend time with my family! I had a ton of fun baking cookies, cooking and getting ready for Christmas Eve and even going to the Bruins game up at the Garden on the 23rd!
The Bruins ended up beating the Thrashers 4-1, Thornton almost had a hat trick and he managed a fight right at the start of the first period. It was an exciting game and a ton of fun to be at the Garden!
Christmas Eve was the big day this year; we had the entire family over and the Friday was spent icing cookies, preparing a ham and cooking different appetizers for the evening! Of course, I was cursing the cookies the whole time while they were actually baking, but after icing them, they began to look more like the animals they should look like. Martha Stewart is a God if she really got her cookies to look like what the magazine looked like. I'm convinced she iced cardboard cut-outs of cookies, because there is no way cookies could look that perfect.
I mean, mine came out pretty good- had to get creative before the icing dried!
That night we had the whole family over for food, pomegranate punch and fun! Here are some pictures of my wonderful family!
The Guys!
The cousins!
The Flaxington Clan
The Spencer Clan
Mimi, Poppa and the grandchildren!
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| The Lovely Ladies |
Bud and Dad having some fun!
Cheers to a successful Christmas Eve!
Christmas Day I spent with my family; we opened presents in the morning and then had an amazing dinner! The highlight of my day was receiving a nook from my parents! I'm so excited to just go crazy and read on this thing for the rest of my life. Books and books and books; sadly I won't be able to create a library like the one in Beauty and the Beast, but maybe if I use my imagination, that's what my Nook library can eventually look like! Of course it will be electronic, but you can imagine anything.. right?
After Christmas dinner with Mimi & Poppa we had dessert; White Chocolate Mousse that I slaved over! Just kidding, it was literally 2 ingredients!
Christmas night I went over to the Luther's and exchanged gifts with Derek! And... I am going to see the Lion King in February at PPAC in unbelievable seats!! I am so excited; not only have I wanted to see it since the 5th grade, but who doesn't love Disney?
And then of course we got hit with a blizzard. So lucky me; my bus was canceled Sunday AND Monday and I got to spend those days playing board games and cards with Derek and purchasing a new pair of snow boots. And thank god I did because New York City literally looked like "The Day After Tomorrow." I'm not going to bore you with more pictures of snow because they have been plastered all over the news, but never in all my life have I seen such a mess! Cars were covered in 6 feet of snow, side streets haven't been plowed, sidewalks are not cleared, and the plows are even taking out cars! It's really unbelievable. I heard that for every inch of snow the city gets it costs about $1 Million to remove it, so in that case, $20 million later, it's no wonder it's still a disaster.
But, my friends, the holidays are not over yet, and I will be making a return this weekend for New Year's Eve, the Winter Classic game ( if it doesn't get rained out.. and no I'm not going, I'm watching it at home on TV with lots of food) and Mimi's birthday party!
Merry Christmas!!! Get ready to ring in 2011!
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