Christmas in the rearview

Well, I just took the Christmas cards down in the office yesterday, and the holidays are now finally, officially over. I'm a bit ashamed to say that I'm relieved. I love Christmas, but it does add a lot of extra steps to my day. I had to greet everyone with the appropriate holiday greeting, explain endless new treats to the innumerable moochers at work, send cards (didn't quite get that finished this year), etc. And that was before I went to spend a week at my parents house with 10 other people. Don't get me wrong, mixed in with the madness, I had some good times too. Here are few highlights from my Christmas holiday:

• Meeting my niece, Kate
• Making gingerbread waffles (my first time making waffles of any kind)
• Laughing with my sisters
• Eating Christmas Jello
• Quoting things with my family that only they would get
• Seeing The Family Stone with my Mom (which she liked better than I did, surprisingly)
• Eating Rochester "hots" (that's hotdogs to the rest of the country)
• Seeing 2 of my sisters in fish-net tights (can you guess which ones?)*
• Dancing around & acting stupid because my family has to love me no matter what
• Playing Uno and drinking root beer floats on New Years

Certainly those moments were worth any amount of chaos. But for now, I'll be happy to settle back into the old routine for a while. I'm trying to read as many books and see as many movies as possible before school starts; I have one week left. I hope all of you are either settling into happy routines as well, or starting on new adventures. Whichever it is, I wish you love and all the best!

*It was Amy and Emily in the fish-nets. Do you think that's why they have husbands and the rest of us don't?