Happy Christmas Eve's Eve! It's one of my favorites, because it's our annual "Friendsmas" with our friends who live out of town. We always meet up at our house and spend some time together before heading to "Christmas Jam" downtown where one of the guy's friends puts on a charity concert. It's a a great time, I truly love this tradition. We always end up running into friends that we haven't seen in ages, and it's a blast to catch up {and it's a chance to dress nice for a "night on the town!" which we don't really do too often}.
I'm hoping everyone had a great weekend. Mine was too short,
Saturday morning was spent getting pampered by a friend who is selling spa items. I cannot wait to host a spa party with her, I would love for my girlfriends to try this stuff out! My skin feels incredible, and everyone could use a little extra pampering every once and again.. From there I joined my family for lunch at George's, a really awesome local eatery. It was a particularly rainy, cold, dreary day, but still, I had errands galore to run. I needed to finish Christmas shopping, go to the grocery store, clean, wrap presents, etc..needless to say, the grocery shopping did not get accomplished on that rainy day. Not worth it.
Sunday morning was spent grocery shopping, spending time with my little nephew, and cleaning the house literally all.day.long. It looks great, but I was one exhausted busy bee yesterday. Nothing exciting happened, just a whole lot of chores! By the way, Wal-Mart is already CRAZY packed with people getting their shopping done for the holiday, so if you can, avoid it at all costs.
Today, I am at work {hey, no complaints, I love my job} and at 11 I get to go with my sister to pick up her husband at the airport since he is coming back from basic training! Yippee =) After work, it's a trip to my parent's to visit my cutie pie nephew for some play time before I go home to do a little "food prep" for Christmas Eve and get ready for Friendsmas!
Time for "Life via iPhone"
Can't go to the grocery store without my reusable bags! Leopard print, how cute are these? I have four and use them religiously {mainly because I hate the zillion plastic bags you typically get that break and are just a pain}
Received a precious gift of a handmade bracelet that benefited a child with a Catholic education. I love gifts like this!
Charles worked so hard, so I let him and the girls cuddle up and watch football all Sunday evening..
Elfie left me a hint on the counter...he wanted banana bread made. Anyone else think this was Charles' handiwork?!
Got this sweet gift from another friend! I love it! Couldn't resist sitting on the couch early Sunday morning with it :)
Baby Thomas loves his Auntie M, in fact, I make that exact same face! Silly goose.
So remember how I posted last about not worrying, not stressing, etc because it's not what the holiday is about?
It turns out it's one of those "easier said than done" kind of things. It's easy for me to write about not stressing and just enjoying the moment in a blog post, but it's not so easy for me to remember to put into practice. Someone was asking me questions about Christmas Eve and if I had everything done, what I was serving, who was coming, what time, etc. and I found myself getting very worked up about it. Instantly I thought "Wow, did I not just post about this exact thing? Why did I just lose my cool over someone merely asking me a question?!"
Sometimes it's easy to think that something should be done {or not be done, as the case may be} but it isn't easy to follow through. I really hope I don't turn out to be someone who is all talk and little action. It would disappoint me to be perceived in such a way. Do you ever say you're going to work on doing something, but fail to follow through?
How about we aim to be the person we desire to be? It won't be easy, but I hope I can catch myself before I continue with habits that I am trying to break.
I hope everyone has a blessed Christmas! I probably won't be posting until post-holiday, but I will take a generous amount of pictures so you can feel like you were right there with us!
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