What a wonderful day!! We had so much fun…
Pancakes, bacon and cappuccino.
Dog park with the crew.
Snow blowed the driveway. Got ready.
Opened presents from Santa!!
The over to the MMZs for Christmas dinner. Great wine, great dinner and fun company, and a lot of wine!
Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday Jesus!
I had a great day today for Christmas Eve! We woke up and had cappuccino, cinnamon rolls and bacon. Then we headed out to the dog park in the negative degree weather. Pooch still ran around and had a blast!
This afternoon we got ready for our Eve dinner party with the McCallisters. And we delivered a Christmas treat to our neighbors.
Meghann and Zara picked us up and we went to Christmas Eve service. It was very nice!
We had a great dinner… I’m still so full! Ham and all of the fixings… Of course some delicious wine. And Diohgé had some of his own good food too.
The McCallister’s went home and Zara zonked out… Otherwise Santa won’t come!
Merry Christmas Eve!
I woke up today with a major urge to get everything for Christmas all done and ready… And I did!!
– Shopped all morning: groceries for Christmas Eve, last minute presents.
– Went to lunch with Dave
– Worked a bit… Text, phone, email.
– Hit up 3 wine stores all for different reasons!
– Baked more (and way better) Snickerdoodles and Sugar cookies. I even had fun shapes!
– Made baked potato dip.
– Cut up salad for tomorrow.
– Finished laundry
– Wrapped loads of presents!
So happy…
Pooch figuring out I had bacon…
And the best find of the day! We got this for free at the Liquor store. First, one guy told us $5 (deal!) and then the guy at the register said free once he saw our cart. 🙂
Today was relaxing magical. We had a play date with the McCallisters so Chef and Diohgé could attempt a friendship again. In the house, they were just okay. Outside they chased each other around for a minute! It’ll have to do for now.
Dave took the pooch to the DP this afternoon for another play date. I had a date with the couch… I zonked out for like 2 hours. Glorious.
Tonight we made dinner and opened a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau. It’s a wine produced, bottled and drank all in 2013. It was yummy!
Of course Pooch wanted to play some ball and couldn’t understand why it was stationary.
I ended the night by baking some snickerdoodles, but I think I need to retry tomorrow. I’m not quite pleased with them.
I had an urgent need to get things done today… Those things were shopping! But, I was woken up by the pooch around 7 to go potty. I decided I should probably get my work phone and bring it back to bed “just in case”.
7:45… Text from EVP.
8:00… Text from SVP (boss)
8:10… Call from Technology partner. Okay, I’m up!
The next 3 hours was texting, calling and emailing for work. That’s what happens when your CEO issues a video about giving 10% off this weekend. All in all, it was good!
After getting ready and organizing my list, we headed out for a shop. First, we hit World Market to pick up a chair for our sitting room. Diohgé loves it!
Then we hit West Elm to pick up a side table and of course, Target. And let me tell you… Two carts and a lot of discounts later! (Coupons, Target coupons, Cartwheel, team member discount, Pharmacy 5%, extra 10%, Red Card 5% and mobile coupons!) I saved over $300!!
Tonight we attended the Kemmetmueller Christmas Party (business). It was at Dave and Buster’s and we had a blast! We brought home a lot of swag and had a great time with so many friends.
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