Heloooo there! We are back from our little voyage out of town. It was lovely and delightful, and so good to see my whole family.
The festivities were much like 2008 and 2009 and the years before that as well. So, I won't bore you with endless photos.
But I will tell you this, we were greeted by a life-size metal angel with a porcelain face, that I wanted to kidnap :)
Alas, it's not like you can do that without being obvious.
"Oh Mom, how odd, your angel is strapped to the roof of my car. How did that happen?"
See, doesn't work.
;)
My sister made her signature cookies, as did Mammie. Then we had an amazing Christmas Eve dinner as we do every year, and the whole family got together. It was simply bliss, to be with everyone, laughing and carrying on...
Oh, we laughed soooo much. My cheeks are still sore from laughing.
The Christmas eve dinner Mammie prepared was out of this world scrumptious, and we enjoyed several more meals together over the holiday (until we couldn't even imagine fitting in one more morsel).
(Mom makes a spiral ham, scalloped potatoes to die for, an amazing salad with pears and nuts. Plus a stuffed and rolled flank steak, that is sliced with stuffing in the center (unreal), and more. I can't even remember right now...)
Then, we had our Christmas Day festivities (after our Santa gifts at home) at my Grandma and Grandpa's, as we have since I was born. The whole family (extended too), gets together for tamales, menudo, oven toasted buttered Mexican bread and the most killer beans on the planet (and I don't even like beans that much). Oh, plus oodles of desserts.
One of the bestest parts of the whole trip, were our "kids" - my sister's Douglas, and my Matty (Matisse). They added so much fun and frolic to the whole adventure. Matty did really really well, and is proving to be quite the good boy outside of the house (as well as at home). Albeit, still reserved and suspicious of strangers. Which I think shows quite good character on his part.
Matty and Douglas played and played. I think Douglas got sick of Matty though, because Matty could play all day and all night, non-stop. He loves to play and play and play, without rest.
There were so many doggie gifts, and two of the stuffed dogs you see above and below. But of course, they both only wanted one.
Silly rascals.
(Matty's fave gift is a pink elephant)
Matty isn't a huge dog, but he is very long, which makes him super tall when he walks on two feet (err paws). He is rather good at it. Sort of faun like, me thinks ;)
We came home to a chaotic house, superkalifragilistically fun tales yet to share (eeeeeeee!), and a winter storm headed our way. Yikes.
We are enjoying citrus from our trees. The oranges are like candy. Candy I tell ya. And, the lemons taste like oranges. Curious.
So, that's the 411 around here.
Did you eat so much you could explode?
Boy, we sure did.
We left our country house a mess from wrapping gifts and such. We sort of just locked up a house of disaster, and went on a Christmas voyage. Returning home to havoc was well, havoc, haha!
So, I have sorted out things pretty well, and, now our life is topsy turvy in other ways.
Good ways.
I will we back ever so soon, once I get my next tale in order.
So happy to be home, and here.
Love, V
♥
ps: They say we might get snow. Yes, snow. Oh me, oh my! We had snow year before last, I think? But it melted by noon.
