Goodbye 2009, Hello 2010

Hard to believe it's 2010 already!  This year went by as a blur.  Personally, I'm glad to see 2009 go.  It's been a horrible year for many, many people. I'm looking forward to this new year,

Christmas was good - it was white!  We got about 6 inches all together, with drifts in places of about 11 inches.  About 2 inches of ice before that, and now it has all melted a bit due to it being warm yesterday. Today was only in the 20's so now everything is frozen back up. Now we have huge ice patches everywhere instead of snow patches.  The ice took out our internet on the morning of Christmas Eve and we didn't get it back until late Monday afternoon. Yikes - that's longer than I ever want to go without internet again - ever! 

My boys tried to stay up until midnight, and failed, lol. They are, as I type this, sleeping: Sully is sitting upright on the couch, and Tucker is sprawled out in the chair.  They were watching Star Wars, lol.  They are obsessed with it right now because Sully got Lego Star Wars for Christmas and they have been playing it every chance they get.  I'll drag them to bed once 2010 gets here.  That way I can tell them Happy New Year and they have the illusion that they made it :)

Well, it's almost time.  I'm wishing all a very Happy New Year, and hoping for God's blessings and favor upon us all. Bye 2009 - I wish I could say it was a great year, but it really wasn't.  There were some great moments of course, but it's been a year of dramatic loss for many. So...hello 2010  :)

Slack Much?

Ok, so everybody has pretty much figured out by now that I can slack with the best of them hee hee.

I'll do a quick catch-up of Thanksgiving and everything else - which really wasn't much - and get current;

Thanksgiving day dinner was at my house - immediate family, so not big & noisy or overly hard on the cook :) It went well - I did everything homemade because I had a point to make with my mother-in-law. She gives off the impression that I can't/don't do anything. So, homemade rolls, homemade dressing, homemade pumpkin pie& pecan pie with real whipped cream, real sweet potatoes - not canned.  Everything came out perfect :)  She seemed a little disappointed, hee hee 

Saturday was the ginormous whole family dinner at her house.  I will give you a perfect example of the kind of things she does to me: when I asked her what I should bring, she told me to bring sweet potatoes and a pumpkin pie. When I get there and put the food down, I see that she has made sweet potatoes and a pumpkin pie...what the heck??   *deep sigh*  that's how it always is, lol.

Next was a trip to Topeka on Monday after thanksgiving and by Wednesday Bobby and I both were sick with an intestinal virus.  One of those that you wish you would throw up, but you can't.  I was literally sick for two days, but my stomach still wasn't right for another two days after that.  It would ache and burn and I felt hungry, but the thought of food was just nasty. The body aches lasted about 3 days also - ugh!  Feeling better now, but weak after all that and spending like four days in my recliner, and no energy to do anything.  I know I'm sick when I don't even feel like opening up the laptop, hee hee.

Saturday was my birthday, but wasn't feeling up to doing anything, so it will probably wait until our anniversary on the 28th of this month.  Yeah, my birthday, Christmas, and my anniversary are all in December. I guess I'll have to start celebrating my half birthday :)