Today was a lax day. The let down of Christmas comes today, everything I was doing was building up for this past week, celebrating Christmas with Cassie on the 21st, and with everyone else on the 25th. The surprise, our packages to our other daughters got there on Christmas Eve! And we didn't mail them until Monday so it only took 2 days to get to them. Great job, Post Office! Today is Boxing Day, a tradition my late Uncle Ed, who was British, introduced us to when I was little. It is the day extended families get together and celebrate the season and eat, exchange presents and play cards. Since we all got together on Christmas Day, and the rest of our relatives live in other states, Boxing Day is kind of a let down. Hubby had to work all day and I spent the day in my jammies, watching tv and playing on the computer. I know I am being useless but it feels so good! I didn't even read but I had a book by my side the whole day. I did feel bad about staying in the bedroom and in my jammies all day, I really felt like I should get up and get dressed. I even found a pair of jeans that fit at the thrift store the other day when I was visiting the new Goodwill down the street. I found them and bought them to cover up the sport's coat I found for my hubby that turned out to be gigantic on him! Oh well, I tried. But I can take him back to the thrift store and have him try on the rest of the sport coats and find one that will fit him. At least he liked the ties and the socks I got him.
Tomorrow is a new day and I plan on getting up, getting dressed and going downstairs. I have taken enough time off from crocheting and miss it, having something to do with my hands. It feels too weird to sit there still. I have to start walking again and I have been doing good in snacking on fruit and watching my portions when eating. The dogs just keep getting fatter and I seem to be maintaining at 198lbs. Yeah, I haven't gone over 200 pounds yet! You got to celebrate the small stuff.
Talking to one of our daughters yesterday was fun but trying to talk to our 13 year old granddaughter was like trying to get information out of a baby bird with a brick. One word answers, not volunteering of information. We even bought her her first diamond necklace this Christmas! We thought it was a big deal and she would be thrilled, but it was no big deal. I don't know why we keep trying but we will. I told her we would be coming out that way in mid-March, to see Sarah's new baby and visit Li An, Sarah's first born. We will be coming through Albuquerque, NM where they live and would like to stop and visit for lunch or dinner. Maybe we could get a motel room and go out to dinner with them. I would like to stay at Las Cruses, NM where Sarah and Bar live for 4 or 5 days. Give us a chance to get to know Li An, who is a little over one. The only problem is Bar's family is going to be there too, and I would kind of like to wait until they are gone before we go out. There are so many of them and they kind of took over Li An when we went out before. I would like to be able to help Sarah and get to know Li An and it will work out better if they were gone by then. So maybe we would wait and go out at the end of March. When it gets closer to the time, we will arrange it more exactly.
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