OK.....I'm over my "episode" from earlier!

Do you ever just have that urgency to wrap your hands around someone's throat and strangle the life out of them?? That's how I was feeling earlier....lol. But I am over that.....for now. The day is still young.

So, our Christmas was wonderful! Kind of sad to see it be over with already. It just seems like such a shame that all the preparing you do for the big day is over with in one day.

We went to my Grandma Smith's on Christmas Eve for the festivites there. I made my turkey divan and a cherry dump cake.....both which, in my opinion, were fantastic. Things there are always hectic. The family has gotten so big (both in numbers AND physical size), that every year there seems to be less and less room. Every family has that ONE asshole that you have to continuously bite your tongue around.....our family included. In our case, however, that asshole MARRIED an asshole, and produced and are raising an ASSHOLE. Lovely, huh? But, we all bit our tongues and smiled like little retards for my Grandmother's sake.

We came home from my Gram's and got Lukas ready for bed. I read "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and, of course, "The Night Before Christmas", both books bought by my parents for the kids this year. We then got right to fixing Santa's plate of milk and cookies, and a bowl of sugar for the reindeer (they have QUITE the sugar tooth!). Lukas went to bed with ease, and went fast to sleep. Jake, on the other hand.....not so much. At 14, he knows there is no Santa Claus....but he totally knows the routine at this point.....that Mom and Dad spare no expense to make their precious little gems happy on Christmas. SO.....he was full of excitement, and just couldn't get to sleep. I threatened to make him sleep in our room on the floor again this year, but he wasn't having it. Eventually, I gave up on waiting for HIM to go to sleep, and Mike and I headed off to bed. At 5 a.m., the phone rang. It was my dad. He told me to get up, that he and my mother were on there way up. Ugggggh. So, up we all get. My parents arrived at 5:30. Turns out that my dad tried waking my mother up at 4:30 to come to our house, but she informed him that I would kill him. At 5 o'clock, he woke her again, this time telling her that I had called him and told him that we were up and it was ok for them to come up! LIAR!! LOL!! He's as big of a kid as our 2!!

The kids made out like bandits, of course. Jake got a 14-gun metal safe from us, a PS 3 from my parents, clothes, basketball sneakers, games for his PS2 and his PS3, and LOTS of "Sure Fuck" (that's what Mike calls his cologne....."Sure FUCKIN' stinks!"). He of course, got more than that, but there's just too much to go item for item. Lukas' big gift was a Nintendo DS, some games for it, the case, and a bunch of TONKA trucks. In true "kid fashion:....the $40 worth of TONKA trucks were his favorite things....not the $200+ we have wrapped up in the DS that he HAD to have....lol. Turns out though......Mikey has an incredible OBSESSION with the DS and the JOHN DEERE, HARVEST IN THE HEARTLAND game that we got for it! He spent 7 hours straight playing with it on Friday, and over 3 hours on Saturday. I got a breadmachine from my Grandmother (which I have already used twice!), a mini photo kiosk (VERY cool), LOTS of "Sure Fuck" (lol), clothes & jammies. My parents bought Mike some black Carhart bibs and a jacket, I got him new sneakers, some cologne, a boot dryer, and some snowmobiling gloves.

The days following Christmas have been pretty relaxing. We've done alot of napping and alot of eating....lol. Mike goes back to work tonight for a couple of days, and then is off New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Me....I'm only off New Year's day. We're going to my friend Char's house for New Year's Eve....should be a good time. We always have a riot when we are there.

Well....time for lunch. I haven't done anything else since I have been here.....might as well eat! lol