Thursday, December 22, 2011

Almost ready for Christmas.

Well, I am really ready for Christmas all year round. I just love Christmas.

Almost all of our gifts are wrapped and under the tree. We just have to go get a gift for one of the grandkids, as I tested the ones we got and wouldn't you know it, one of them didn't work. I took it to exchange it and the store didn't have another, so we will go to another store and see if we can find one.....that works.

I have a 4 day weekend! Yes! Tomorrow we will go get the above described toy. Then I will bake 4 loaves of cranberry almond bread to give to the kids and MIL. I have 7 loaves in the freezer, but we love the stuff, so I will save them for us. I also plan to make some raisin bread for Meredith and Samantha, to add to their bags of jam and cranberry almond bread. So, tomorrow will be productive, but not terribly busy.

We are having our get together Saturday evening. Just me, Hubby, his mom, our kids and grandkids. No sis-in-law drama for us this year. It should be really nice. MIL will only let me bring deviled eggs, so really easy prep for me. I will make those on Saturday.

On Christmas Day, it will be just me and Hubby and he is looking forward to it. We have never had a Christmas Day alone. Well, maybe alone. Last night Chance sent me a message regarding Saturday and asked what Hubby and I were doing on Christmas Day. I told him and said that if he had no plans he was, of course, welcome to come over. I told him I wasn't inviting him as I thought he might have plans and didn't want him to feel obligated, but that he is always welcome. So he might come over, he might not. Either way is fine with us.

A wonderful, stress free holiday for us and I am loving it!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

7 comments:

Hunie said...

Merry Christmas to you!

Frances said...

Thank you, Hunie!

McVal said...

I am so jealous!!! Our best Christmas ever was when we got the flu and none of Robb's siblings could come AND his mom got sick too and stayed downstairs the whole weekend. It was GREAT just us...
I want to find someone who's puking...
You have a wonderful and Merry Christmas!

Mark said...

Okay, you can knock off your bragging right now! I'm about to go into the Stress Weekend from Hell! Wish me luck!
Merry Christmas.
m.

Frances said...

McVal, don't be jealous. Have a wonderful Christmas!

Frances said...

Good luck, Mark. I hope it isn't to stressful for you. Enjoy those wonderful kiddos and have a wonderful Christmas.

Sonya Ann said...

I'm glad that you are getting a break from family drama, I got a break too. I'm so happy about it. It just seems when we finally get sick of it and say no and then stick to it everything gets better. Hmmmm, I should stop trying to play nice. Oh wait it's Christmas and that is what I'm supposed to do.