Christmas recap

We had a really great Christmas. We love any day when it's the 3 of us being able to enjoy family time together. But to add on top of that... wonderful reflection time, gifts, favorite movies and songs, and a yummy home cooked feast was great. I cooked my first turkey! And made all southern side dishes passed down to me from my mother in law which were all family recipes passed down to her!! A real southern meal --- cooked by a yankee! :) Whatever that all means - I really don't understand the segregation anymore and north/south animosity, it's all about how you were raised, not where you grew up geographically anyway....

so anyway -- the meal really was no big deal!! I plopped the turkey in - and 4 hours later took it out!! The side dishes took a couples minutes to prepare - but I had done that already when Raymond was napping the day before -- so I literally still got to spend the whole day with the family except for probably 20 minutes.... and still serve them a feast!

Our neighbors who I talk about often (who are actually not our neighbors anymore - moved about 10 minutes away)... came over with their 2 kids and we all had a great time. They are our surrogate (is that what you call it?) family since we were missing our extended family down here in N.C. It was actually our year to go to New Jersey --- but because we both took off time when grandma passed in May - we couldn't make it up there this year. I am already getting excited for next Christmas and our trip to New Jersey!!! But we have a whole year full of fun to look forward to before that!! Terri & Mark coming over was a total last minute thing though... we were just going to eat just the 3 of us -- but when we saw them on Christmas Eve and heard they had nothing to do on Christmas day that was unacceptable to us! So they came and feasted with us and we still had tons of leftovers! haha

I will post again later or tomorrow pictures from the day and another post about our gifts we all received... but most importantly we took time to reflect on the love we share and most importantly the love that God gave us over 2000 years ago.... our Savior in flesh.

Hope you all had a wonderful, peaceful, joyous celebration too! :)