Somehow, every year, I find out once again that all the preparations and stress were worth it, when I see the kid’s excited faces and Anders really likes his gift. Sneaking Christmas cookies while the kids are occupied with constructing Lego sets. Laying on the couch listening to new CDs and staring at the Christmas tree until all the colored lights run together. Glad that there is sunshine AND snow. Glad that the gifts I sent to far places were received on time and with joy. Glad that I can really relax now and enjoy a week off. Merry Christmas,...

Yay! My 42 tons of snow is being delivered right now! It’s a WHITE CHRISTMAS, after all! 😀

You know what cheers me up? YOU do! Well, my kids do, too. And Anders. And the incredible domestic binge I went on last night in the kitchen. I have a sort of love/hate relationship with the kitchen. I have everything you could really ever need to cook or bake with, and a recipe clip book just packed with yummy ideas, but do I ever do anything with them? Rare, I tell ya. I used to bake more than I do now, back when I had free time (ho ho ho), and I’ve always liked baking more than cooking, but...

I am just not in the mood. I am not in the mood for anything. Not for cleaning up my dust-bunny colonized house. Not for wading through more! never-ending! endless! NON-ENDING loads of laundry. Not for baking cookies that my son keeps asking me about because, GOD, when do I have time to bake cookies? After Christmas, that’s when. Not for writing posts in my LJ which is why there was nothing yesterday and nearly nothing today (and you’re probably wishing about now that I’d continued that trend). Not for having that achy stuffy full-of-phlegm not-fresh head-cold feeling 2 days...

Phrases I’m Practicing in My Gravely New Voice: Why don’cha come up and see me sometime? Whaddaya want, wicker? Bueller? Bueller? I’ve got a bad feeling about this… Luuuke, I am your faaaather. I smell man-flessssh. You had me at ‘hello.’ We’ll always have Paris Flyinge. Meat’s back on the menu, boys! I feel like a million tonight…but one at a time. Hey…hey, you gonna eat that? Ribbit

Awoke to a world of white, we’d been sugarcoated overnight. Just a little dusting but it became a mantle of diamonds in the sunlight. Snow, glorious snow! Bring it on for Christmas! It’s a good thing we had no major plans this weekend, as my cryk invited his friend the sore throat over to stay. I feel as if I’ve swallowed a frog. Because of the cryk, coughing is a majorly painful ordeal both on the inside and the out. The pain pills are not nearly as effective as I’d hoped they’d be, although they ARE helping, and I’ve been...

Anders and I had a pact not to make any plans this weekend, except doing some Christmas shopping, working around the house a bit, and playing with the kids. Unusual, yes…and wonderful. 🙂

It’s been a banner day for packages, cards and presents! A very big thank you and hug to purrthecat & wruf for the 3 Musketeers bars!!! YUM! verian for the awesome book of poetry, which I urge the rest of you to GO BUY! doggereler for the copy of Verian’s 100-track CD project and the cool little toy for my kids My grandma for the gingerbread cookies!!! Christmas cards from LOTS of LOVELY people! My cryk is killing me, and has been getting steadily worse, despite medication, salve, hot bag-o-beans and massage from Anders. I woke up 2 hours after...

I’m a hunchback today. 2 nights ago I strained a muscle or pinched a nerve or just plain slept wrong and got a crick in my neck that is steadily getting worse and causing a LOT of pain. I can’t turn my head easily to either side, and it hurts to do the simplest actions. It hurts to blow my nose, and type, and drive. I brought my heating bag-o-beans with me to work, and am currently sitting with it under my blouse, draped over my shoulder. Advil hasn’t helped and so far, the heating isn’t doing too much either....

True Love is climbing up into the freezing cold attic for your wife to hunt down an errant unmarked box of Christmas items, which contained, ta-dah! the wire hooks, of course. Sneaky little bastards. Amount times which I could completely cover our tree in ornaments: 4 Christmas ornaments purchased so far this season anyway: 8 My plan was to get the tree decorated tonight, because I can’t do it tomorrow (choir Xmas concert and dinner) and I can’t do it Thursday (see below) and I wanted it done this week which leaves Friday. The thing about tree decorating is that...