Well, it was a really good Christmas here; I hope yours was good as well. It is so much fun watching kids open presents! We made sure to hang their stockings on the fireplace mantel, and leave cookies for Santa on the mantel as well. They wanted to leave the cookies on the coffee table, but I told them that the dogs would eat the cookies before Santa got here, and that he would see them on the mantel beside the stockings, so that satisfied them enough to get them tucked into bed.
They were so excited that they didn’t get to sleep much before 11:30! And of course, they were awake by 4am and woke us all up so we could open gifts! Thank goodness I managed to sneak in a nap shortly after breakfast! My sister put the turkey in the oven and prepared the stuffing. Most of the food was prepared the day before so all we had to do was reheat most of it. All in all, it was a wonderful day, and I’m glad they came!
My sister arrived today, along with her hubby and kids. I haven’t seen them in a few months, they’ve been so busy moving into their new home that they haven’t had much time to come by and visit. They brought their dog with them, a lovable old keeshond that just loves everyone. They’re planning on spending the night and tomorrow here with me to have an old fashioned family Christmas together. I’m really glad to see them, and glad they came here instead of me going to their place. Their place isn’t set up enough yet to have a family Christmas. It should be fun having them here! They helped me to decorate the tree, and we played Christmas music and drank hot apple cider and hot chocolate while we decorated. We had a great time!
Merry Christmas to all of you!
My sister has asked me to help her find the best deals on a Playstation 3 console and accessories to buy for her gamer son. She told me that they already have most of the other game consoles, and they have been putting off buying this one for a while because they wanted to wait until the prices came down a little bit. Apparently the prices have come down a little bit since they were released two years ago, so they’ve decided now it a good time; especially since they want to start buying Blu-Ray movies and the Playstation 3 comes with a Blu-Ray player in it.
So I’ve started looking for the console and accessories on the ShopWiki.com website to help my sister to find the best price. I really like this website because it crawls and searches through all of the websites that sell the products, not just the few merchants that might have paid to show up as sponsored merchants.
I was hoping to eat out tonight, but heard that there was a big ice storm coming, so we cancelled our plans. The bad weather has started, so I guess it was the smart thing to do. I’m glad I had re-stocked the pantry with food, and put studded snow tires on the car, and gassed up the chain saw. I think we’re going to need it! Thank goodness for our generator and our wood stove; I’m sure they will come in handy. I’m anticipating that if the power goes out, several of our neighbors will be coming over and staying with us, so I’ve made sure to have all of the guest accommodations ready - just in case. I hope we don’t lose the Internet connection!
Well several of my Thanksgiving dinner guests ended up staying over for the next two nights. That was a very pleasant surprise. It worked out kind of funny - they thought I had invited them for the weekend, and I don’t remember doing that, but it all worked out fine since I really didn’t have any “plans” for the weekend. It’s a good thing we had a lot of extra food from Thanksgiving dinner! And of course, I always have a lot of extra food in the pantry just in case of really bad weather, or really intense laziness hits me, so we had no problem eating. They left earlier this afternoon to head home, I was sorry to see them go. I really enjoyed their company, and I invited them to come back soon!