The Christmas Wrap-up
First Christmas as a married lady! Jason and I were awoken by kitties for their usual 7:30 breakfast. Yes, they can tell time, and yes, they knock. Jason got up to feed them (a Christmas miracle!) then told me to come out to the living room because Santa came. Cheeseball! But sure enough, there were deer tracks in the snow right up to our back door. We exchanged presents, and as a bonus "Santa" hung up surprise stockings for us, filled with chocolate and booze. Woot! Jason loved his Alan Lee illustrated edition of The Hobbit, various manly luxury things, and the new Call of Duty. My haul was thigh-high mohair socks (warm!), two Pagan books, a zombie story anthology, and the Kat Von D 'True Love' palette. Though I joked 'great! Now I, too, can look like I've had a paralyzing stroke!' it's actually a pretty great palette. I love that the gold is a creme shadow.
The kitties loved their new kitty bed add-on to their fort, and they've been playing happily with their new catnip toys and blinky ball thing.
After that, I napped and J nerded out with his video games until we went up to his dad's place for Christmas dinner. Then Jason fell asleep while I watched endless episodes of American Ninja Warrior, pinned by his weight and unable to change the channel.
Saturday was sleeping in, then going into the city to spend time with my dad, brother Daniel, and to pick up my sister, Melissa, who spent the night with us. We watched The Dark Crystal and had some yummy hot cocoa I got as a gift, paired with the chocolate chip cookies I baked on Christmas eve.
Today was a bunch of errands, then heading to Glen Burnie for Christmas with my mom's side of the family, as well as a cousin's 30th birthday. We were adored by a whole bunch of anklebiters. I swear, my baby cousin Gracie thinks I'm the best thing ever. She's four years old and was all "Christina! Christina! Remember when you came down the ocean and we played Candyland? That was awesome." Awesome, and over a year and a half ago. The kid has a good memory.
After swearing we weren't exchanging presents this year, my mom gave us a bunch of stonewear oven dishes and two awesome crochet blankets she made. We are now supa warm.
It was a nice little Christmas. Tonight, I aim to drink a lot of water and spend the night cuddled up. We've ordered cookbooks (Jacques Pepin FTW) and all is well with the world.
Oh! And we got an email from Megan at Offbeat Bride. She's running our feature this week! After they picked up the flickr pics right after the wedding, they asked us to submit a questionnaire. I just figured that they forgot and being featured once was pretty cool. But now we're being featured again. I'll link to it when it's live!
The kitties loved their new kitty bed add-on to their fort, and they've been playing happily with their new catnip toys and blinky ball thing.
After that, I napped and J nerded out with his video games until we went up to his dad's place for Christmas dinner. Then Jason fell asleep while I watched endless episodes of American Ninja Warrior, pinned by his weight and unable to change the channel.
Saturday was sleeping in, then going into the city to spend time with my dad, brother Daniel, and to pick up my sister, Melissa, who spent the night with us. We watched The Dark Crystal and had some yummy hot cocoa I got as a gift, paired with the chocolate chip cookies I baked on Christmas eve.
Today was a bunch of errands, then heading to Glen Burnie for Christmas with my mom's side of the family, as well as a cousin's 30th birthday. We were adored by a whole bunch of anklebiters. I swear, my baby cousin Gracie thinks I'm the best thing ever. She's four years old and was all "Christina! Christina! Remember when you came down the ocean and we played Candyland? That was awesome." Awesome, and over a year and a half ago. The kid has a good memory.
After swearing we weren't exchanging presents this year, my mom gave us a bunch of stonewear oven dishes and two awesome crochet blankets she made. We are now supa warm.
It was a nice little Christmas. Tonight, I aim to drink a lot of water and spend the night cuddled up. We've ordered cookbooks (Jacques Pepin FTW) and all is well with the world.
Oh! And we got an email from Megan at Offbeat Bride. She's running our feature this week! After they picked up the flickr pics right after the wedding, they asked us to submit a questionnaire. I just figured that they forgot and being featured once was pretty cool. But now we're being featured again. I'll link to it when it's live!