Scenes from Christmas week 2018

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful time bringing in the new year.

I’ll admit that I haven’t wanted to blog lately and because of that I still have things from 2018 to post. I’ll also admit that I was thinking about just starting fresh but then I quickly scratched that because I know it’s something I’ll regret. Something Emily said that hit me … she wrote about never regretting writing a blog post and she is so right. Even the embarrassing posts from the early days of this blog I don’t regret. So the next few posts will be from a few months ago and I hope that it’ll give me the push I need to get my blogging mojo back. We shall see :)

Christmas fell a little weird this year but I’m not complaining because it gave me four days off in a row! Sean worked on Sunday the 23rd so we did not leave until Christmas Eve to get to Sean’s hometown. Sunday night when Sean got home we exchanged gifts and ordered Chinese food takeout as is our yearly tradition. I see that I did not take pictures and I hope that I behave myself this year. This not taking picture thing is so not me and I don’t like it. Sean probably does though, ha.

We did our Christmas celebrations with Sean’s family on Christmas Eve and was back on the road to Pennsylvania on Christmas day as we both had to work the day after Christmas.

Usually I make lasagna for our Christmas dinner but to be honest I was just exhausted and did not have any desire to make dinner for 10+ people. So we ordered KFC for our Christmas dinner. I hadn’t had KFC in years but if it meant that I could just relax Christmas Eve I was all for it.

Sean and I picked up two gingerbread houses to do with our niece and nephew the day before. Sean decorated with our nephew and I decorated with our niece. It was so much fun and ended up being a competition which of course Nadiyah and I won, ha.

The majority of pictures you see here were not taken by me. Once again, I had no desire to take pictures but I always bring my camera just in case. Nadiyah asked if I brought my camera since I was not taking any pictures. I told her I had so she asked if she could take the pictures. She knows how she is to handle my camera at all times so I agreed and I’m glad that she was able to capture pictures that day.

Sean's sisters below.

At some point in the evening, it began to snow and my niece and nephew were so excited to play in the snow. Nadiyah practically forced me go out with them and although I completely had all the wrong footwear this was the highlight of the day for me. It's amazing the joy children find in things like snow and I hope to be more like them :).

We left rather early to get on the road Christmas day and was home by 11am which was great. We actually planned to leave 11am so arriving home at the time we were suppose to leave was awesome. We watched a few movies, took some naps and just relaxed. If I’m to be honest I rather enjoyed a low-key Christmas day. I hope that you all had a wonderful time celebrating as well!