Christmas 2011 has come and gone, we've rung in the New Year 2012 and I'm turning 50.
Christmas was spent with Eric, the girls and Eric's parents, Money and Nancy. We have the pleasure of being in driving distance from Money and Nancy and that they are still willing and able to make the 12 hour drive! They are 76 and 72 and it hit me this year as I wondered how many more Christmases we will be able to do this. At some point the drive will be too much for them. I also realized that I wanted to make sure that I had all of Nancy's holiday recipes. I do, but she always adds or deletes something in the recipe to make it her own! These are things I need to know!
I feel like this sounds a bit morbid and it's certainly not meant to! It just hit me this Christmas that our time together is precious and we have no idea when the big guy will call us home so I'm feeling a sense of getting things in order.
And have I mentioned I'm turning 50 this year? It's not until October which I understand is 10 months away..... but it's freaking me out just a bit. Turning 30 was terrible for me, 40 was great! I loved my 40's so much!! But 50? Not sure how friendly we're going to be towards each other.
Ok so back to Christmas. The highlight of the week was when Eric was messing with the oven and accidentally changed the temperature from farenheit to celsius. Nancy was baking chex mix, it was in the oven about 5 minutes, I turn to see smoke coming from the oven! Now that was exciting!
Gift giving/receiving was nice and fun as always! The girls enjoyed buying presents for each other and put thought into what they got each other so that was fun to watch! Nancy scored big time on one of her gifts for the girls! She called me and said that she had gotten a coupon to purchase fleece blankets with a picture on it. I told her it was a brilliant idea! The girls were thrilled with them!
iPads were the big gift for the girls this year. They of course, love them. Emily had wanted one, Sarah and Lizzie hadn't asked for them. It was interesting because as Emily was doing the happy dance, Sarah and Lizzie were contemplating if they would really use it. Wow. We of course told them to make 100% sure because if not, we would return them. We loved that they thought enough not to open them up, power them up and then say "I don't think I want it". They decided they did want to keep them and haven't looked back!
We brought in the New Year at home like we always do. The girls had some friends over, Emily made some healthy food and we ordered pizza! At 11:30pm we all head down to the basement to watch the ball drop. We watched the Dick Clark New Year's Eve show and I have to say that I'm saddened to watch him. It made me sad last year and sad again this year. On the one hand I think that at least he is on there and pushing forward but on the other hand, it's hard to understand him when he talks so that makes it sad to watch him. But back to the New Year! Honestly, I was ready for bed at 9:30pm. I did laundry.... fun. Kept the kitchen cleaned up... double fun. Just waiting for midnight to yell Happy New Year so I could head to bed to then be up at 7am to shower and head to church! It was awesome, we typically have anywhere from 60-80 jr high kids at our 9:15am service and we had approximately 18..... Happy New Year!!
Have I mentioned that I'm turning 50 this year??? Ahhhhh! I feel that this will not be my only blog on turning 50. Why do I hate that age so much? I know I should embrace it and be thankful, blah blah blah. But 50? I feel old just saying the numbers.
