It was just spring not long ago and then summer and then Halloween and Thanksgiving and now
Christmas is here.
Have you been as busy as I have been lately?
Grandchildren tracked out of school, Christmas shopping, Christmas listing and selling on ebay and finally the big day.
We have our family on Christmas Eve.
Give the kids some food, lots of candy and send them home!!
Works for me.
Not so good for their Mom and Dad!!
Some of us didn't get too stressed |
I didn't have time for a big tree this year. But at least I finally got one up. Small, but it does the job. And the cats have inspected it and it passed.
Our meal of choice for Christmas is lasagna. After the super huge feast at Thanksgiving with all of the rich and bad for you stuff we started having lasagna several years ago.I don't make lasagna very often and we tend to dig in. It is much easier than planning and fixing 7 or 8 different things for the family. Lasagna, fruit platter, veggie platter, salad and bread. And of course dessert.
The princess' don't particularly like lasagna. Don't like the ricotta and all the cheese. Daughter Smarta** came up with this for the princess dining pleasure.
Gingerbread spaghetti!! Got these little dishes at Michaels one year after Christmas. Perfect for a meal for one. |
They liked them, after we peeled the cheese off |
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL
AND TO ALL A GOOD......YEAR
I have a new plan for thrifting next year that I will share soon.
Don't make too many new year's resolutions......
Totally agree with the running around thing! I have also realized kids don't necc. care about all those items in a meal, they just want it special - like you did, made it fun. Glad you had a good time. Love your Grinch, my kid sleeps with his year round!
ReplyDeleteI actually put the Grinch out for SweetiePie because he really is a Grinch at Christmas.
ReplyDeleteThink Martha Stewart would approve of the gingerbread spaghetti?