Christmas in Winthrop

Since my parents ended up spending the holidays in Montreal visiting my Grandfather, who had broken his leg just recently we decided to head east. After numerous discussions of when we would leave, (my hubby thinking as early as possible ie: Tuesday morning, when in fact I had Tuesday all booked up!) we ended up departing Bellingham on Wednesday at around 10:30 AM, which for us I must add, is quite a feat. With cooler, six-pack of wine, numerous bins of food, a huge cardboard box of presents and our suitcases we headed toward Winthrop. Of course there was a stop at the bank to get some cash for the road, a swing by Starbucks for the mandatory latte & scones and a quick detour to our mechanics place to drop off Adam's truck so it could be serviced over the holidays.
We arrived in Winthrop and immediately everyone went into Vacation Mode. Martin stopped answering his phone every five minutes, Adam was playing computer games, Grace hauled the contents of Grandma's toy box all over the living room floor and I went into last minute present production and wrapping. We were expecting Martin's sister Michelle and her boyfriend Jack, as well as my sister & brother in-law Melanie & Matt with their two boys Oscar & Riley. Grace was beyond excited to see her cousin Oscar and to play with him.

Grace did feed the reindeer again this year. She was so cute, called Grandma before we left to make sure she had everything to put into the Reindeer Food. Turned out it was a good thing, as Grandma was all out of tiny marshmallows.
We did a lot of unwrapping on Christmas Morning, playing games & cards, eating lots of good food and had a blast in Winthrop.

See What Grace Brought Home from Daycare...

they made these cute chains to count down the days till Christmas. How cool is that? She was hamming it up for the picture and has been proudly displaying her handiwork to everyone that comes to the house.

On another note, why can't I decide whether computers are helping our hurting us? This is another case of probable data entry errors causing me stress and headaches. I just spent an hour on the phone trying to get someone to reverse this error. So now I have to fax paperwork, follow up with phone calls and all because someone made a typo somewhere down the line. What a nightmare.... ARGH!

Hopefully later today I'll be able to finish my Tofino post and also work on some Christmas stuff that's starting to stress me out... How many shopping days till X-mas?

Christmas Countdown

I really wanted to post yesterday, but between working, grocery shopping, prepping dinner and having a volleyball match at 7:15 PM, then rushing back to the grocery store for forgotten items and rushing home to finish preparing dinner I didn't get a break. So I managed to feed everyone, have a shower and collapse into bed at 11 something, too tired to even read a few pages of my book.

So how many days till Christmas? I've officially decided that there isn't enough time, no matter when I start with my shopping, writing cards or making gifts. I never get it all done. So this year I am stressing a lot less, I wish I could say I wasn't stressing at all, but that would be a lie. LOL

Off to make my list and check it twice...