OH how I love thee! I absolutely freaking love Christmas. It is the best time of year and my favorite holiday. I just love the whole idea of it; making a big to-do about spending time with your family that bugs the shit out of you, getting gifts for them that you know will make them squeal like a pig, and eating so much you actually look like said squealing pig.
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| Holiday Party |
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| Christmas Past |
I also love the traditions that Christmas brings. Hubs and I have made our own over the last few years and they really are just simple things that make me light up like a lightening bug. Sometimes I think he could care less about some of the things, but he knows it makes me happy so he shut's up about it keeps his head down. Happy Wife, Happy Life, am I right? We spend every Christmas Eve at his Grandma's house even though it is about two hours away. Totes worth it. The man is 31 years old and never missed a Christmas Eve there. I'll be damned if I'm going to be the one who ruins his "favorite" status. We get one new ornament every year that symbolizes something major that happened for us. This year, my Grandmother gave us a "new home" ornament, and we bought a "new dog" ornament. Christmas dinner ALWAYS consists of prime rib and green beans cooked in bacon grease (OM NOM NOM!!). Christmas night we load up with hot chocolate and drive around looking at Christmas lights. My mother also informed me she still has "The Night Before Christmas" book from the 1980's that she read to us as children. It's earmarked for me when we have our first little bambino! Don't think for one second I won't be bawling my eyes out as soon as I get my grubby hands on it.
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| Too. Much. Christmas. |
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| My husband is soooo better than yours. |
This year we had Ruxin and I totally went all out for him. I know he is only a dog, but he's my dog dammit! He ended up with two stockings full of toys and rawhides, plus home-baked dog cookies. Love the little bastard!
I do love Christmas so much we've already talked about Christmas next year and how it's pretty much going to suck donkey balls. I mean, it's on a Tuesday for crying out loud! Who has Christmas on a Tuesday? Christmas Eve on Monday? Pssssha.... I don't know about this. There is definitely going to have to be some trickery in the time-off from work department.
This was also our first Christmas in our new house. And I must say, that fricken rocked! We procured ourselves a 9-foot beaut of a tree and I've started my Christmas decor collection. Watch out 20 years from now- you won't know what hit ya!
Hope everyone out there had a very Merry Christmas!
