The Season!
Dec. 26th, 2011 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kukla_tkoChristmas has begun!
Family fun this weekend was great. Saturday we gathered at my mom's place and exchanged gifts. This year the theme was "hand-made Christmas". Re-gifting was also considered appropriate. My hand-crafted pillowcases went over really well as did the commemorative Cardinal fleece throws (that I threw together at the last minute.) I went ahead and stayed at Mom's house that night (almost fell asleep in my chair, covered in dolls.)
Brother 1 gave out wooden things, though I got an early sculpture of his. (He made an 8-sided die in high school. It's awesome.) Brother 1's Fiancee crocheted me a scarf!!
Brother 2 and his partner make beer. She makes cookies, as well. They've been working with spent-grain breadmaking now as a by-product of the beer making. MMm. Spent grain...
Mom made bread, also. Mmmm. Mom Bread! My Stepdad helped me make archive copies of DVDs so that I could give the originals to The Boy.
We had two ducks and a turkey breast and some leftover beef. (I had made crock-pot beef shanks for work on Christmas Eve, and there was plenty left over.) Despite the various food restrictions, a great meal was had by all.
On Sunday, I got up early to take care of some business. Then I went back to bed and slept until about noon when Mom got up and made some breakfast. I managed to be showered and dressed and have most of the kids stuff wrapped by the time they arrived at 2-ish. We did a quick round of presents and Edamame with them, then I hustled them off to Papa's house for the second half of Christmas. At Papa's, we had a nice meal (pork roasts!) and lots of treats. We also played Cheez-it Scrabble and I got some energy work/osteopathy done by my stepmom, plus got Justine on the table for some headache help. Jesse talked TaiJi with my stepmom a bit, too. Stepmom loved the celtic pillowcase, and Papa snuggled the warm fuzzy blankie I made him. I found cardinal fleece in our fleece remnants. It was not the sport team; it was actual cardinal birds on a wintery background. It was gorgeous, and a high-quality fleece. I serged the edges with a wave stitch, and gave it to him as a gift. We used the fleece and her pillow for the work "on the table" that night, which was useful, too.
I went home and exchanged gifts with my roommates, and we marveled at the orgy of sweets we'd all made and been gifted with. I discovered that a few of my gifts had remained at Mom's, so I'll be swinging by there this week to retrieve them. (Plus my crock pot and serger.)
I plan to continue to celebrate through the Epiphany. I have more gifts to deliver and create, and I'm making the run to Alabama this weekend.
Merry Christmas Season, everyone!
Family fun this weekend was great. Saturday we gathered at my mom's place and exchanged gifts. This year the theme was "hand-made Christmas". Re-gifting was also considered appropriate. My hand-crafted pillowcases went over really well as did the commemorative Cardinal fleece throws (that I threw together at the last minute.) I went ahead and stayed at Mom's house that night (almost fell asleep in my chair, covered in dolls.)
Brother 1 gave out wooden things, though I got an early sculpture of his. (He made an 8-sided die in high school. It's awesome.) Brother 1's Fiancee crocheted me a scarf!!
Brother 2 and his partner make beer. She makes cookies, as well. They've been working with spent-grain breadmaking now as a by-product of the beer making. MMm. Spent grain...
Mom made bread, also. Mmmm. Mom Bread! My Stepdad helped me make archive copies of DVDs so that I could give the originals to The Boy.
We had two ducks and a turkey breast and some leftover beef. (I had made crock-pot beef shanks for work on Christmas Eve, and there was plenty left over.) Despite the various food restrictions, a great meal was had by all.
On Sunday, I got up early to take care of some business. Then I went back to bed and slept until about noon when Mom got up and made some breakfast. I managed to be showered and dressed and have most of the kids stuff wrapped by the time they arrived at 2-ish. We did a quick round of presents and Edamame with them, then I hustled them off to Papa's house for the second half of Christmas. At Papa's, we had a nice meal (pork roasts!) and lots of treats. We also played Cheez-it Scrabble and I got some energy work/osteopathy done by my stepmom, plus got Justine on the table for some headache help. Jesse talked TaiJi with my stepmom a bit, too. Stepmom loved the celtic pillowcase, and Papa snuggled the warm fuzzy blankie I made him. I found cardinal fleece in our fleece remnants. It was not the sport team; it was actual cardinal birds on a wintery background. It was gorgeous, and a high-quality fleece. I serged the edges with a wave stitch, and gave it to him as a gift. We used the fleece and her pillow for the work "on the table" that night, which was useful, too.
I went home and exchanged gifts with my roommates, and we marveled at the orgy of sweets we'd all made and been gifted with. I discovered that a few of my gifts had remained at Mom's, so I'll be swinging by there this week to retrieve them. (Plus my crock pot and serger.)
I plan to continue to celebrate through the Epiphany. I have more gifts to deliver and create, and I'm making the run to Alabama this weekend.
Merry Christmas Season, everyone!
