Christmas 2010. This year Christmas snuck up on us. Our family had such a busy month that when it was Christmas time we were caught slacking! Sweetie and the boys finished their shopping days before Christmas. Me? I was finished just 9 days before. Whew!
Traditionally, I go out shopping on the day after Thanksgiving. Not this year. It was actually nice to sleep in. We did order a few things on cyber Monday though. That was nice. With free wrapping and shipping, it saved bucks for our out of town folks. (although, I must admit I plan to do more of it next year) I still had stuff to ship and man, was it expensive.
The boys favorite gift from us this year was the stilts that we ordered for them. (summer clearance baby! woot! woot! ) With the boys getting older and wanting more along the line of gift cards, and video games instead of toys it was fun to suprise them with an oldie but goodie toy.
Sweetie worked Christmas eve this year. We weren't lonely as my Aunt and Uncle came up to visit us and spent the night! We made some new memories playing games and showing them how much Clarksville changed since the floods we had in May.
Driving them around I got to revisit their first home and share in those memories with them. We did a little stocking shopping and got back home so we could prepare Christmas Eve dinner. As Sweetie pulled in the garage snow started to fall! Yay!
My family left after dinner so they could try to beat the snow home. Good thing they did, we got 2 inches! Not to mention some sleet.
Christmas 2010 was a white one! Its been several years since that has happened here. Unfortunately, we couldn't make snowmen.
We spent Christmas Day with Sweeties family, and had a great time. It starts with our mid day meal, then one of the men reading the Christmas story, then We laugh and enjoy one another until its time to go to the Grandparents home for dinner and Dirty Santa. Since Sweeties family is so big, we all just bring one gift worth $25 and put them in the middle. Then someone draws names and its on. One can either get a gift from the pile or take from someone else. Whomever goes first gets to go last after everything has been opened. Oh, and something can only be stolen 3 times.
This year I actually left with something I wanted! A 25 dollar gift card to Longhorn! Sweetie came home with some sausage and cheese! Yum! We all came home with fresh memories of laughter and good times. We were blessed all of us being together....some of these folks we only see once a year - if that.
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