We had a wonderful week-end and it snowed on Christmas morning. We woke with a WHITE CHRISTMAS! Snow was not in the forecast, but a few days beforehand I visited with God and asked for a white CHRISTMAS. I was thrilled to wake up to it snowing! Beautiful SNOW.
Before we got to our daughter's place on Sunday to celebrate my Husband's birthday and stay the night on Christmas Eve, I made a birthday cake for Hubby's 69th Birthday and sad to say, it looked awful as the cake did not rise as I thought it should and even though the cake was cooled, the frosting ran off pooling at the base of the cake. It was suppose to be a beautiful German Chocolate BUNDT CAKE. It tasted good, but looked so so sad.
Anywho, we arrived, unloaded our luggage, visited, had snacks, visited some more, had a snowball fight inside the house with faux snowballs, ate the biggest steaks I have ever had, and sang Hubby Happy Birthday and ate cake. Son-in-law prepared the huge steaks! Unbelievable how huge they were, but they were for Hubby's Birthday.
Just before bed, the kids prepared a plate of treats for SANTA and his reindeer.
It was nice to sleep in a soft bed and rest throughout the night without train whistles blaring. On CHRISTMAS morning I took a long shower, got dressed, celebrated that it had SNOWED! LIKE A LITTLE KID, I was giddy. SNOW.
Ate a delicious breakfast of scrambled eggs and sourdough toast. After daughter had her coffee and we took pics of the freshly fallen snow, we went downstairs to see what SANTA had brought. Mister C is only 2 years old so this was very exciting. To see his excitement was priceless.
priceless.
More family arrived and we watched them open their presents after watching the Kansas City CHEFS play the RAIDERS. MERRY CHRISTMAS! We listened to Christmas music and had a very pleasant time with family.
Visited and ate supper before heading HOME to the COTTAGE. It may snow some more. We donn't have far to go.
We're back HOME and I think I'm about ready to go to BED. These times I'm so tired have been frequent. I have a doctor's appointment to visit with him about a lingering cough. um. Shall see how this goes.
This week I hope to get the brunt of the work done on the KITCHEN so I can move forward to getting the Dining room done, but if we don't get that far I will just keep plugging away.
New Year's is coming. I will hopefully make chocolate covered pretzel sticks with peppermint dust on them since I didn't get the peppermint patties made. We had plenty to eat and I think it was for the best to not get everything made that I had planned on.
MERRY CHRISTMAS and may the new year be healthier. Plans are starting to form and I am counting the days for 2024 to begin.
I want so badly to sit still for a day and just sit. This will be a gift I give myself this week. Sit and be still. Amen and amen.
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