Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone has had a Merry Christmas. We went to bed early last night,10ish, and got up around 5:30. I remember as a kid getting my poor parents up as early as 4 am. Chuck and I just couldn't sleep! It was pouring rain and continued until about 11 am or so and now the sun is trying ever so hard to break through the clouds. We enjoyed Christmas dinner last night which consisted of Prime Rib (a real treat as we rarely eat beef), broccoli and carmelized onion salad, smashed potatoes(Jen made), and Yorkshire pudding which I had never even tasted before but it was fabulous! I could get into real weight trouble with that. John made a beautiful and tasty Christmas pie. I have no idea what we will have today. The leftovers were not many. We ate like field hands. LOL! Tim gave a very nice blessing beforehand as we understand how fortunate we are to be so blessed. We will be visiting family in a few days and look forward to that. Merry Christmas Everyone!

Christmas Eve Eve

Just a quick note about this photo. Doesn't Santa look a bit grinch-like? No wonder most of the kids were crying. Michael was quite brave though and wanted to hug him and Santa kept unhugging(is that a word). Anyway, Ho Ho Ho, or rather He He He.

Home from NYC @ Christmastime!

We are back from New York City and boy did we have fun! So much fun! My eyes have seen so much that they are so tired! Skating at Rockefeller Center, the giant Toys R Us with a real ferris wheel just inside the front door, the Wax Museum (of course we had to vist there!), Little Italy, Chinatown and SoHo, Entire State Building(as Michael calls it), Statue of Liberty, and the World Trade Center Site which was so moving and sad. My goodness! It is still so hard to believe that those towers are really gone until you see it. So sad.

We also, just last night, saw U2 in concert in Charlotte at the new Bobcats arena and that was a spectacular show. Wow! What a busy 5 days we have had. It feels nice to have no place in particular to have to be this morning. Now I need to concentrate on Christmas decorating. Our tree is still not up. Hopefully we will be done this weekend. I am so ready to settle down a bit.