Christmas 2009
28 Dec
Christmas 2009 was great! We felt so relaxed and unhurried. There were fewer gifts this year, and more family time. It felt like we could read the Christmas story in Luke and John 1 without making anyone late for another event.
Christmas Eve morning, David and I slept in. I made smoothies for breakfast, and we had just settled on the couch to drink them and watch a Christmas movie when my mother called. The weather man was reporting that Dallas would have whiteout conditions by noon, and we needed to head to the suburb where both my parents and in-laws live so we wouldn’t have to drive on the freeway once the storm hit. David and I threw our clothes (some of mine dirty) in a suitcase, as well as all of our stuff to bake cookies, and two dogs since we were dog sitting for our friends. Okay, so the rushing Christmas Eve to beat the storm wasn’t relaxing, but everything else was.
We made it safely to our parents’ side of town, although it did start icing/snowing as we drove. Yes, we had a white Christmas! No, I didn’t get any pictures. It was pretty cold outside, and the dogs didn’t really want to stay out any longer than they had to.
Once we made it to my parents’ house, David and I made our gingerbread cookies. We hung out there until it was time to go to David’s parents’ house. We had such a good time watching our nieces and nephews open their gifts. We gave our nieces a dress up box with feather boas, high heels, a purse, a feathered fan, etc. They LOVED it! Everyone liked the crepe paper money roll. We gave my three year old nephew Thomas the Train squirt toys and he was delighted.
It was a fun evening with great food and board games. David was hurting considerably because of the cold and all the rushing around earlier that day. His mother gave him a really neat heating pad that conforms to your neck and shoulders. We spent the night there, and got to watch our nephews open presents from Santa Christmas morning.
Christmas Day we spent with my parents. There were so many funny gifts. Well, maybe it wasn’t the gifts that were funny. Maybe it was just seeing Brother #2 in basketball shorts and his new cowboy boots. And playing Word Party with my family is always hilarious. You really get to see how differently we all think. I learned something interesting. When I say, “SNL” it sounds like “S&L” to my parents, and instead of thinking “Tina Fey” they think “Savings and Loan”.
That afternoon we had a traditional Tex-Mex Christmas dinner of queso, guacamole and taco soup. By then it had warmed up and the roads had cleared so we were able to go home. David gave me a bookshelf from Ikea for Christmas. He and a friend opened the box Saturday to put it together and discovered it was the wrong color. So, my brave husband went to Ikea and made a return the day after Christmas! They put the shelf together, and now I’m trying to find all the books I hid when we staged the house while it was on the market.
How was your Christmas? What are your plans for New Year’s? David and I typically have a New Year’s Day brunch, but with me working extra hours at my part-time job, David’s arthritis and his job search, we are skipping it this year.
Love,
A Young Wife
I love hearing about other peoples traditions! I think it’s too cute you and your husband baked cookies together!
Sounds like you had a nice time…that Tex Mex dinner sounds yummy!!
I want a Tex-Mex Christmas dinner! Yum! We got snowed in on Christmas here in Iowa, so we had a normal dinner. It was still fun. I’m glad your Christmas was wonderful!
We’ve never ever, ever had a white Christmas in Mississippi – that I know of! We did get a cold one this year and that is always fun instead of short sleeve weather on Christmas. Hope you have a great New Year!
You know one of the things I most miss about Idaho is the snow, it’s just not the same to have a Christmas in 70 degree weather and sunny skies LOL
Glad you had a great Christmas
Sounds like a great Christmas! We had a green Christmas: our first Christmas in California. Our families are in the Midwest so it was just the 3 of us at home, really quiet and relaxing. I loved it.
Merry Christmas!
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Thanks so much for swinging by my blog the other day. Yours looks like it’s jam packed with all kinds of good stuff. I look forward to poking around a bit.
Thanks again — and Happy New Year!
Aww, what a great Christmas! I love Ikea bookshelves, they’re the best! Your post reminds me, I need to make another trip up there…
Stopping by from SITS!
~HB