All the crazy rushing, to do lists, shopping, wrapping, baking... and it is just over so quickly! But I love Christmas. I love it so much. Seeing everyone, all the food, people happy. It is one of my favorite holidays.
Saturday was nuts. After I got off of my computer, I spent more time knitting one more scarf, which I had to stop doing to move on. Then I finished making over 100 truffles. Once those were in the fridge, I started wrapping my Christmas gifts... yes, STARTED wrapping the gifts. I had to pack my bag with my clothes and everything I needed to get ready, after I showered and got ready for Christmas Eve.
I think I left my house around 2:30 to head over to my boyfriends house and completely unpack my car. I can't believe how much I had with me! We packed up his car and headed up north of Boston. We stopped at 3 restaurants to get gift certificates and at Walgreens. My boyfriend needed a gift bag for his nephews gift (which they were obviously out of Christmas bags!).
The whole time we were in the car, we were listening to the 2nd half of the Patriots game, which YAY! They won! :)
And of course my boyfriend needed to stop to get his car washed at that point... so we finally got to my grandfather's house around 5. I stayed there for dinner which was pretty quiet until about 30 or so cousin's from next door popped over. (side note... my cousin is maybe 6'7" tall. He is married with 2 kids. Last year they were living in Colorado and didn't come home for Christmas because she was VERY pregnant. So I knew that his son was under a year old. OH MY GOD is Zack HUGE! He is 11 months old and wearing a size 18 months. He is so long and weighs 30 pounds! He's NOT a year! LOL!)
It was pretty cool to see the whole family though. I gave my grandfather a set of rosary beads that I had hand made for him out of roses I had from my grandmother's funeral. They were absolutely beautiful! They came out so pretty. He was cute too...was getting teared up just from the Christmas card I got for him. I love my grampy!
My boyfriend had only dropped me off at my grandfather's house and left after a few minutes to head over to his mother's house where his family did their Christmas eve thing. He got back to my grandfather's house around 9 to hang out with us for a bit there. My family exchanged the rest of our gifts, then we cleaned up and headed home.
We stopped by my house so I could run in and give the cats some more food. They have been on a strict schedule for eating... I feed them between 7-8 am & pm. Christmas Eve morning they ate a little late, around 9. Then I left out cans around 2:30 when I left and put more food in when we stopped by my house around 11pm that night on our way home. Nuts!
And my boyfriends poor dog! He left him out before I got there on Christmas Eve, so he was out around 2 or 2:30. But we didn't get back until about 11:30! Poor thing must have had his legs crossed waiting for us. At least he didn't have an accident or anything.
Christmas night was tough sleeping. I gave the dog a toy on Christmas Eve before we went out. It was a hard plastic ball about 5 or 6 inches in diameter with 3 holes cut out of it. Inside is a soft plastic ball. But he can't get it out with the hard plastic around it. Rocco LOVES that toy! LOVES!
Well, we went to bed Christmas Eve night, maybe around 11:45 or so. Rocco was in the room with us as always. Around 1am, he must have gotten that ball stuck under the bed and he couldn't reach it. So he started crying. And crying. And crying! Then when we weren't moving (my boyfriend sleeps with headphones on to not hear any noise, so he couldn't hear any of this!), Rocco started pulling on the blankets. From the foot of the bed, he was biting the blankets and pulling them off of me!
I was seriously fighting with a 110 pound dog to keep blanket on me! And he wouldn't stop crying! This might have gone on for 30-45 minutes. I ended up waking my boyfriend up while I was fighting for blankets with the dog. He got up, found the damn ball, and threw it up high on the dresser. The dog was STILL crying for a while but finally he fell asleep.
My boyfriend wakes up before dawn, which drives me INSANE. We were up before 7am! URGH! But it was fun. He didn't have a tree and didn't want a tree. Sort of threw a fit when I said I wanted to buy a little potted tree. So I went out and bought the most obnoxious tree I could find. Less than a foot tall, with lights and Mickey Mouse on top. By clicking it on, the lights flick and it plays music, maybe 10 songs. SO obnoxious! LOL! But we needed a tree! He laughed.
I gave him a stocking with little stuffers, plus coal. :) Then he opened his real gift. The Hammock. The hammock, the stand, the storage bag, the pillow and even the cup holder! He LOVED it. Even this morning he said he was thinking of setting it up in his spare room. I'm REALLY glad I got that for him. He was surprised, but loved it! Worked out well.
I had told him that whatever he gave me, I wanted a card! Well, he had already told me on his birthday that his card for me was short and sweet. So I knew there was a card. When he handed me the box with my Christmas gift, no card on it! He told me to just open it.
He got me an absolutely beautiful Coach bag. SO not something I would ever get for myself and I love it! :) A silver and black satchel bag. SO pretty. I could never ever spend $300 on purse, but I LOVE this bag! Love.
And inside the purse was the super sweet and great Christmas card that he got for me. I loved it.
After we finished opening gifts, after the Dunkin run, we showered and got ready for the day. We left his house just after 9am, stopped at my house to give the cats more food, then made a quick stop at Walgreens near me. With his 3 previously trips to Walgreens, he never got a card for my parents. They had ONE Christmas card that was all wordy and what not. He was so funny describing what he almost bought them instead of that! Too funny.
We got up to my parents house around 10:15 and exchanged gifts there. That was when I finished up the scarf I gave to my aunt Mary for Christmas. From mom and dad's, we went over to my aunt Marion's house and did the whole Christmas thing with them for a bit and caught up with everyone. It was the first time my mom's family met my boyfriend, so that was nice. I really wanted him to meet my cousin Jenn.
One of my cousin's got engaged yesterday. I'm happy for her. Everyone kept asking if she had set a date. Um, she was engaged for 30 minutes! I doubted it! LOL!
We left my aunts house just before 1 and went over to my boyfriends parents house. His mom had cleaned a chain for him and she had his grandfather's chain that she wanted him to have. That was really nice too. He had been close to his grandfather, so he loved that.
His parents had been going through one of their safes, where that chain had been and found a bunch of old jewelry. They pulled a few pieces to show me. HOLY COW! His dad showed him his Rolex that he said will one day be my boyfriends, but he can borrow if he ever needs it for a dressy event or something. Such a gorgeous watch! WOW!
And then some of his mother's jewelry! HOLY CRAP! I knew her diamond was unbelievable, it was her second diamond and is HUGE. Then she had this great bracelet and necklace from Italy that she was wearing yesterday. She also pulled out an old sapphire and diamond necklace and bracelet set. They were so nice. I couldn't believe it. Just gorgeous jewelry.
Anyway... from there we headed over to his cousin's house for dinner. I can't believe the amount of food they had over there. It was crazy. Even worse than my family if that's even possible! So delicious. But WAY too much! They had the whole house decorated. The table and place settings looked like they were right out of a magazine. It was so nice. (His cousin's house is incredible! I counted 18 movie theater seats in their home theater room. Yes, a movie theater, with a popcorn machine, in their house!)
We left there, stopped to feed the cats again and then went back to his house around 6:30 or 7 last night. We hung out and talked for hours last night too, which was really cool.
I had such a great Christmas this year. So many people, so many memories and good times. Being with my boyfriend, waking up in his arms and spending the whole day with him was so great. It made this Christmas even that much better.
He was cute too... I found out after opening the Coach bag that he wasn't sure on it. He had been asking his mom, his aunt and a few of his cousin's about it. They all knew the bag I got and were looking at it on Christmas, asking me if I liked it. :) He really wanted to get me something I liked. He did good! LOL!
He's a great guy. Even if he got me something small, it wouldn't have mattered. The card he gave me was absolutely perfect. It was everything I wanted. I am SO happy with him, with our relationship and with everything that is going on in my life.
I'm really lucky with how everything has fallen into place for me. Things are really really good. I'm just really happy. Really really happy! :)
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