Fire and Wine
Merry belated Christmas, everyone! I meant to post before Christmas, but got busy with all the festivities. We had a great Christmas! We had lots of family togetherness and craziness. Don's mom got a chocolate fondue fountain which was quite entertaining. Rumor has it, we may add a chocolate fondue time to the Fourth of July schedule. It was pretty fun and good too!
I learned this year that people really do listen when you tell them what you want. We received more of our wedding crystal, which I am so happy about. China and crystal are great gifts to give us, because we didn't get much of it for our wedding. So, we are still building the collection. Now, silver... we got tons of that!
Don spoiled me this year. We came home from Midnight Mass and he had a gift basket waiting for me. I started unwrapping and found a work order receipt. He had a chimney sweep come out so we could finally use our fireplace! I have been going on and on about wanting to have a fire since we lived in our old house and never used that fireplace, either! So, on Christmas Eve we had our very first fire in our fireplace and it was wonderful! I was so happy. Don did a great job with gift baskets this year. We gave a few baskets to people this year, but his to me were the best. Good job, Sweetheart! My next basket had all kinds of wine/bar stuff in it plus some other cute stuff. The big deal was that Don renewed our subscription to the wine of the month club. Yippee! Fire and wine, what more does a girl need?! Well... He also gave me an LCD flat screen TV and a DVD/VCR combo for my craft room. My big plan is to organize my room in February and make it a really nice retreat/work space. (Hey, Lisa ya' wanna' help?) I have great stuff in there. It's just not put together well. So, I cannot wait to get it together and craft and work away in style. I say "work", because Debbie and I are going to try to work from home one day a week. I get so much more done at home than at church where the distractions are constant.
We had a great time with all of our family and received a lot of great stuff. My dad got us all set to garden in the spring. I can't wait to re-do that whole garden area. Good thing we're freeing up some time! Anthony gave me this really cool mini-digital camera that I can have with me wherever I go. So, now no one is safe! I'll have a camera everywhere! Like I said, we were spoiled by everyone. Next year will probably be semi-giftless. My mom has already made the plea. I really enjoy exchanging gifts, not so much because of what I get but because of what we give. I like coming up with good gifts for people. I think and try hard. I grab things all year round and save them for Christmas, so going giftless will be hard for me because I enjoy the hunt. I rarely give gift cards and am actually offended when people say that's all they want. I'd rather not give them anything then. I realize that people can actually go out and get what they "really" want with a gift card, but it takes all the thoughtfulness out of it for me. That's just my opinion. The gift cards that we gave this year were actually parts of gift baskets or were very specific for self-pampering. Those still required careful thought and planning. I'm not dogging on people who give gift cards. I just don't like doing it myself.
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, too. Can't wait to hear all about it.
I learned this year that people really do listen when you tell them what you want. We received more of our wedding crystal, which I am so happy about. China and crystal are great gifts to give us, because we didn't get much of it for our wedding. So, we are still building the collection. Now, silver... we got tons of that!
Don spoiled me this year. We came home from Midnight Mass and he had a gift basket waiting for me. I started unwrapping and found a work order receipt. He had a chimney sweep come out so we could finally use our fireplace! I have been going on and on about wanting to have a fire since we lived in our old house and never used that fireplace, either! So, on Christmas Eve we had our very first fire in our fireplace and it was wonderful! I was so happy. Don did a great job with gift baskets this year. We gave a few baskets to people this year, but his to me were the best. Good job, Sweetheart! My next basket had all kinds of wine/bar stuff in it plus some other cute stuff. The big deal was that Don renewed our subscription to the wine of the month club. Yippee! Fire and wine, what more does a girl need?! Well... He also gave me an LCD flat screen TV and a DVD/VCR combo for my craft room. My big plan is to organize my room in February and make it a really nice retreat/work space. (Hey, Lisa ya' wanna' help?) I have great stuff in there. It's just not put together well. So, I cannot wait to get it together and craft and work away in style. I say "work", because Debbie and I are going to try to work from home one day a week. I get so much more done at home than at church where the distractions are constant.
We had a great time with all of our family and received a lot of great stuff. My dad got us all set to garden in the spring. I can't wait to re-do that whole garden area. Good thing we're freeing up some time! Anthony gave me this really cool mini-digital camera that I can have with me wherever I go. So, now no one is safe! I'll have a camera everywhere! Like I said, we were spoiled by everyone. Next year will probably be semi-giftless. My mom has already made the plea. I really enjoy exchanging gifts, not so much because of what I get but because of what we give. I like coming up with good gifts for people. I think and try hard. I grab things all year round and save them for Christmas, so going giftless will be hard for me because I enjoy the hunt. I rarely give gift cards and am actually offended when people say that's all they want. I'd rather not give them anything then. I realize that people can actually go out and get what they "really" want with a gift card, but it takes all the thoughtfulness out of it for me. That's just my opinion. The gift cards that we gave this year were actually parts of gift baskets or were very specific for self-pampering. Those still required careful thought and planning. I'm not dogging on people who give gift cards. I just don't like doing it myself.
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, too. Can't wait to hear all about it.
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