HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I hope that you all had a lovely Christmas season and New Years with your family and friends!  Sorry to be away for so long, but between the projects I was finishing for gifts [which couldn’t be shared at the time], and the hustle and bustle all through the month of December there just wasn’t time to write anything down!

What have I been up to you ask?

December 6^th – Jonathan had surgery on his wrist

December 7^th-9^th – weekend trip to Colonial Williamsburg, VA with our friends Aimee and Grant

December 14^th – our 8^th Annual Christmas/my Birthday party at the apartment

December 15^th – Jonathan took me to see “White Christmas” at the Kennedy Center for my birthday

December 18^th – Happy Birthday to me!!  We went to see the National Christmas tree after work, and then returned home where Jonathan made me a very yummy steak dinner

December 19^th – Jonathan and I did a Holiday Tour of the White House

December 21^st – drove home to WNY for Christmas (including the final stretch in Winter Strom Draco)

December 23^rd – family birthday dinner for my Grannie and I

December 24^th-25^th – traditional Christmas Eve/Christmas Day running around and general holiday merriment with our families

December 26^th – finally succumb to all of the flu/cold germs I’d been around over the past month.  Spent 4 days with a fever and chest cold doing next to nothing.  Thank goodness my Momma was there to take care of me.  No one can take care of you when you’re sick like your Momma.  By December 28^th, Momma was sick with me L

December 31^st – NYE dinner with Jonathan at Peek ‘n Peak Resort (where we had our wedding reception)

January 1^st – drove back to Maryland

January 2^nd – returned to work

Yes, I really did find time in all of that to crochet, and sew, and do a teeeeeeny bit of baking!  Even with a fever I was crocheting (I had to do something, I hated that I was “wasting” vacation days being sick!!)  It was a little slow going due to the napping and snotty/coughing situation, but I still managed to make 2 large cowls and started a scarf.

Every night this week when I have gotten home and I have pretty much crashed out the couch for the night.  My very sweet husband, as always, really knows his audience when buying gifts and he got me a Roku box for Christmas.  We set it up on Wednesday night and I just lay there nightly now flipping through everything we have access to watch [thanks to Netflix, Hulu Plus and Amazon Prime]!

I hope to get my December/Christmas-time pictures organized on my laptop this weekend in order to order prints, so hopefully I will remember to post pictures of all the Christmas gifts I made and have now gifted and can share!