christmas

this was hands down the best christmas ever. happy healthy kids and parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. seems too good to be true after the frantic rush to get everything done. as i have gotten older, i have had true blue panic attacks worrying about all the things on my to-do list. this year i didn't get a decent cookie baked (our retro oven takes over an hour to warm up, no time for that!), but i did manage to make a dozen handmade gifts, a definite record. hooray for me! the kids got some toys, some clothes, some handmade gifts and i made sure i was off work a full three days in a row. between the cabin trip, the snowman and snow fight in our long beach neighborhood with fellow neighbors and all the christmas festivities, it was a full three days of fun.