Saturday, December 5, 2009

Holiday Wrap Up - 2 week Catch-up

Just a few more weeks until things quiet down at work. I took my youngest son to look at a local holiday display made by high school students to get in the mood. More photos here on my photo blog.

We had a nice, quiet, drama-free Thanksgiving dinner at our house. My sister and her family came over. Usually they host at their house. I used our good china, ironed my good tablecloth and napkins and for the first time used my grandmother's good silver. My hubby observed how much preparation is involved for a meal that is over in minutes!

My sister-in-law sent the lovely centerpiece in the photo above to us. They decided to stay at home this year. We are long over due for a trip to Chicago. Hopefully before too long... Maybe we'll even get to visit the Suburban Wow gals. .... Good to have goals!


It is finally feeling a bit like winter around here. I did manage to keep some flowers alive until December. Sadly today I had to cut them back as they were frozen and wilted. This picture was taken right after Thanksgiving. We had our first dusting of snow which melted by mid-morning!

Hard to believe it will be Christmas in just a few weeks. I feel horribly guilty about ignoring my blog & blog friends. I hope to be back in the swing of things by year end.

Hope everyone is doing well.

8 comments:

terri said...

Sounds like a very nice, and somewhat relaxing Thanksgiving. (You're never totally relaxed when you're hosting, are you?)

Mike said...

I'm hanging in there. Thanks for updating us on what's happening in your neck of the woods...

jojo said...

I went to my in-laws for thanks giving who are evicting me. We decided to kill with kindness.

Christmas will be living out of boxes, but it IS JUST A DAY!

WeaselMomma said...

Lat us know when you decide to come to town. Suburban Wow airs a special 'after dark' tonight at 9/est 8/cst.

seashore subjects said...

Hope work settle for you soon. You are right, Christmas seems to be creeping up fast!

My Three Sons said...

I hosted Thanksgiving as well and told my mom that next year we are all hitting the buffet at the casino. LOL I spent 12 hours in the kitchen cooking, 45 minutes for everyone to eat the meal and dessert, and 2 hours cleaning up. I was so tired Friday!

Glad yours went smoothly.

Momo Fali said...

No guilt allowed! I hope you are managing to get some stuff done! Get some stuff done for me while you're at it!

My Three Sons said...

Just stopping by to say Merry Christmas.