What a busy couple of days!!! As I told you, I started off the week sick. Because of taking a half day on Monday and my refusal to go in to work today out of a need to simply have some R&R, I will wind up short on hours this week as a result, and can only hope that I am able to “make it up” a little bit this week with my last hurrah on my comission-based side project.
We spent Xmas Eve at my cousin’s house and it was a relaxing evening. The kids had a lovely time and my favorite part as always is not having to cook or clean up. We got home close to midnight, tucked the kids in bed, and did the last minute Santa scurry – pulling presents out of the attic and filling stockings.
The morning dawned early and the presents were all opened by 10:30. Santa was kind to each one of us, and my favorite gifts were my father giving me the money to take a college class this semester and my hubby having our wedding video (which we’ve never watched due to the format it was recorded on) moved to a DVD. If I can figure out how to edit out a snippet of it I will upload it to Youtube.
By 4pm that day my dear friend “M” was over and we were eating dinner. I served a spiral ham w/ raisin gravy, mashed potatoes, candied carrots, green bean almondine, sauteed mushrooms, and cheesy breaded cauliflower. Everything came out wonderful and was heartily enjoyed by all.
The following day was Miss Artistic’s 14th birthday and the highlight of the day for her was opening her gifts (of course) including a really HOT bag from her Auntie “E” and a gift from us that I hope will earn me her favor for at least a week or two – a drawing tablet
This morning our dear friend “M” left for home and a couple of hours later another friend “M2″ stopped by for a brief holiday visit. I served her a lunch of Xmas leftovers with home-baked cookies for dessert and we sat and played Harry Potter Clue. A fun, novel, if convoluted take on the classic game.
The evening is earmarked for watching episodes of Lost with the hubby and trying to forget that I have work tomorrow.
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!!!
Blessings
Mama Kelly
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By CyberCelt on Dec 28, 2008 |
Sounds like a nice, relaxing holiday. We did nothing. I did not even put up a tree. I am hoping when my health returns, my energy will increase.
May 2009 give you peace, health and less work!
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By AutumnZ on Dec 29, 2008 |
Lina got Harry Potter Clue as well. I read the directions, but still don’t really know how to play. But then, I never understood the original clue either. I get the moves and the secret passasgeways, but solving seems random to me. How in the world am I supposed to know who dunnit, where and with what if all I do is run around the board drawing cards?
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By Mama Kelly on Dec 30, 2008 |
I could explain it better orally than in writing. The point is to get your token into a room and then guess a person a weapon and the room taht you are in. Then each other player has to show you 1 card from their hand if they can disprove your guess.
Does that make sense?