1. Friday, I kicked off my Christmas celebrations watching “A Christmas Story” with Hubby and Emily. Since Emily hadn’t seen it, it was really fun to watch it with her.
2. I then proceeded to watch “The Santa Claus” (first one), “Rudolph The Rednose Reindeer”, and “Miracle on 34th Street” while I wrapped, cooked and wrote letters.
3. Saturday, my cousin Janet came up and we watched “Scrooged” with Bill Murray (first time I’d seen it and I really liked it. then I put together a sort of appetizer’s delight of meatballs, artichoke dip (see recipe below), stuffed grape leaves and my own potato salad. I’d give you a recipe for that if I could, but it’s mostly a little bit of this and a little bit of that and then it’s done.
4. Janet and I made her Mom’s recipe for Sand Tart cookies. What was sort of funny about this was that when she sprinkled the colored sugar on them I kept almost seeing writing. Janet said, “Some people use Ouija boards, our family uses Christmas cookies.” But I never could read what was written on the cookies, still I know that they were speaking to me! Then we watched “Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Man’s Chest”. I love Orlando Bloom and Janet loves Johnny Depp so we can watch these sorts of movies without feelings of competition! LOL
5. Sunday we had a big breakfast, exchanged Christmas gifts, I got an awesome Beatles CD and a Lennox Christmas tree ornament, and Hubby got a bottle of Glenfiddich Scotch!
6. Then we took puppy pictures.
7. Sunday afternoon, I prepared for evening guests. We were going to serve Fondue, so I got everything out for that, plus I made a pumpkin pie for Christmas day.
8. Emily and her family came over for dinner Christmas Eve. We ate like crazy, talked and, of course, played with the puppies!
9. Christmas Day I made an Herb Crusted Rib Roast (see recipe below). That was so good. I also watched “Little Women” “The Horse Whisperer” , “It’s A Wonderful Life” and “The Bishop’s Wife” with Cary Grant.
10. The next day my daughter Mandy came up and we had our Christmas. We ate a ton of food, exchanged gifts and played with the puppies! What fun.
11. We also took a bunch of pictures of the puppies too!
12. I set up the two Christmas statuary that Mandy gave me. Snowmen that sing “Let it Snow”, and my church scene with two skaters that play a montage of Christmas tunes. (I adore this!)
13. I end the list of Christmas Happenings with the purchase of my Christmas cards for next year. I did this today when they were 60% off. I love to send cards, and unfortunately in this day and age it’s becoming pretty expensive. So, by buying them now I can continue to send them to all the people that I love.
Merry Christmas!
The pups are getting so cute!!! Sounds like you’ve been busy!
It sounds like a great Christmas. 🙂 The puppies are adorable! 🙂 Great idea to purchase Christmas cards now for next year.
Have a great day. 🙂
Sounds like you had a fabulous holiday! Happy New Year!
“You’re gonna shoot your eye out!”
I adored that movie when I was a kid and loved watching it this year with my mom.
Those puppy pictures are truly adorable.
Look at that little puppy yawning! So adorable.
I’m all caught up on your blog now MB! Glad you had a great Christmas with family and friends and little pupsters!
They’re looking pretty darn adorable. The pic of Greta sleeping with two of them around her head is priceless!
I’ve got one pooped puppy on me bed right now. She’s slept all morning. I guess the days of traveling and visiting have worn her out too, not just her NAMA!
Nice list! I love “A Christmas Story” and watched it this week too.
I saw the puppies over at Janet’s blog … too cute!!
Mine’s up too 🙂
I wish we got to see The Bishop’s Wife together! Next year 🙂
those puppies are so cute. I like the pic of Anita flopped on her back. Sounds like you had a great holiday.
Happy TT