Is Christmas Over????

Well that was a bit underwhelming.

And I can’t really blame the weather.  With our shrinking family, Christmas is usually a small affair…but for me and my mom I think…we both wished it wasa bigger affair this year.

Usually I don’t care….I just do it all for the kids and enjoy sitting back and letting them go nuts..but this year…well I regret not putting some sort of holiday event together.

We should have booked a date to have all our friends over or something.

That is probably the weather talking a lot though..that and this is the first day since Christmas that I haven’t felt TOTALLY sick.  I spent the last couple of days hiding in bed with mega headaches and sinus pain.  FUN.

This crappy snowy soggy weather has left me feeling very cooped up.  It hasn’t helped that we couldn’t get the car out of the court since before Christmas Eve.

Today was the first day we managed to dig out enough to get out and about.

But the kids are getting all goofy and snow crazy.  There has been NO kids around for them to play with. 

None.   It has only been the dad and I and Nana hoofing them out on the toboggan to play.

And really, what DO you do when your snotty and spoiled kids have the balls to ask you on the day after Christmas, just what are they supposed to do now?

This said surrounded by an obcene amount of toy detrious.

I feel bad for my mom.  She LOVES entertaining..but didn’t do her usual open house this year….I can tell this has left her antsy.

She laid out a lovely table for us for Christmas Dinner.   She did Turkey No. 1 and casserols and veggies.  I did Smaller Turkey No. 2 (supposedly for leftovers), potatoes and stuffing and we all merged it together.

But it was just for my ungrateful lot.

And the turkey wasn’t right.  We blamed (at first) undercooking, but when I sprinted back to my house to get the stunt turkey we found that while it was more than cooked, it too TOTALLY lacked flavor.

Bleh.

Seriously..the blandest bird ever.  And I treated that bird like GOLD.

It was basted in melted butter mixed with garlic.   There was salt, pepper, seasoning and a ruddy great onion stuffed inside it.  Oh and lets not forget the bacon coating it too.

But nope…no dice…and not flavor.

Thank goodness all our sides and gravy tasted yummy.

But mom was devasted.  We kept pointing out that being that it was just us there was no reason to fret…but she did.

She was also bummed that I didn’t join her in an evening for drinks and watching ‘ A Childs Christmas in Wales.’

But to be honest….with feeling sick and tired…I just didn’t have it in me.

But I feel bad.

I don’t think you should be alone for Christmas.

So….if YOU are going to be alone next Christmas…call me.  You can come to MY house and I will make you a bland Turkey!

 

And we have NOTHING planned for New Years….we are so frakking boring.