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The morning after Christmas! Nothing that I have to do today..

just relaxing.. and puttering and doing whatever I feel like doing.

I havent had a day like that in quite awhile! We had a wonderful christmas. We host Christmas eve here for our closest friends and their families and its always a comfy cosy evening of laughter and fun. Not to mention huge amounts of great food!
Christmas morning, all the kids came and we had a great time opening gifts. I love to spoil them all and try to give them more then they ever could want. And they always do the same for us. They are very good at taking care of their mommy and spoiling her! We really have been blessed with loving and thoughtful children.

And of course this year we had our first grand child to celebrate! He is sooooo freaken precious!! I just can hardly stand it! I just want to squeeze him to pieces!!! and I literally have to keep myself from doing so! but do you know that feeling?? And I cant kiss him enough.. I think I could almost suck his little face off!! (hmmm.. I wonder if that baby is safe with me?!!! lol!)

And.. i really dont care to share him with anyone else.. but I've been a good girl and Im trying not to hog the baby... really.. Im trying. I think the baby is coming here for new years eve and spending the night with us. heehee.... then I can hog him!

So anyways, I had gotten so far behind in blog land before christmas.. I had hosted a cup of joy swap and never really collected all the pics of the things that people sent each other.. I feel a little bad that I slacked a bit on that swap. but at this point.. I'm moving on and not going back to try to catch up. Catching up is a little stressful for me. I feel like Im rushing rushing rushing and I HATE that feeling.

Christmas afternoon we headed to the city to my MIL's house, where she had cooked a pork loin and a turkey with all kinds of great side dishes and pies! I'm so not kidding when I tell you that my pants are way too tight today! Ive done nothing but eat everything in sight for the last month! I will continue to indulge myself for the rest of the week.. but as of jan 1... its back to serious weight loss business!!

I hope that everyone had a delightful holiday and I'm sorry I didnt get to do a "wishing you a merry Christmas" post. There was just no time for it. But I have a feeling that everyone had a day. I'm now looking forward to working on some other projects that have been dancing in my head waiting for me to finish all those bear orders and the swaps. All of which I love to do.. but I'm now looking forward to creating for myself a bit! I have a santa and reindeer dancing around in my brain, as well as a certain snowperson! I also bought all the stuff to make a christmas top hat, which didnt get done and I want to make a little shadow box of baby torrys fisrt christmas, and a new years creation of some sort! Plus, I never got my christmas cards written and mailed out, so Im thinking about making up some happy new year cards and sending them out instead!

OK.. so obviously, I probably wont get all of that done in a week.. but I'm going to try!

All the kittens are gone. the last two went on Christmas eve. Frannie and figgy are missing them I'm sure.. but they are loving my new bedding and that big foofy soft comforter! doesnt Frannie look like a princess! and Figgy is her pillow! lol!

OK.. i'm off to play at my craft table now!

see yas later!