Dec 27 2007
Kinda Catastrophic
Ahhh, Christmas with Brillig. Never a dull moment… Like Fuzzles vomiting— nothing says Merry Christmas like a face full of puke. Or, you know, Scooby jumping on an unsturdy chair (while I yelled, “don’t jump on that chair, you’ll fall!), falling, and breaking his front tooth— and all the screaming that ensued. (His smile is hilarious now, by the way. hahahahaha.) Or how ’bout when I baked loaves of my famous pumpkin bread for all my neighbors and somehow ruined the entire batch. Yeah… that was a good moment, when after spending hours (when I didn’t HAVE hours to spend) baking I discovered that I’d ruined 7 whole loaves of bread. Sigh. And let us not forget how I bought Hubby some hot new shoes and, though I swear I bought the right size, I discovered, while wrapping them, that I’d actually gotten the completely WRONG size. Hahaha. “Merry Christmas, darling. Sorry you can’t wear these, but aren’t they great?” Welcome to Christmas at the Brillig household, my friends!
Also, let it be noted that my parents completely and entirely skipped Christmas this year. Granted, they live in Spain which is, apparently, kinda far away. My parents are a strange bunch. Some years they overdo Christmas to the extreme, some years they just send a check and say, “buy the kids some presents and say they’re from us” and some years they, um, completely forget to acknowledge Christmas. Now, I can explain all of that to myself. My parents are just odd like that. But, um, what do I tell my kids? “Sorry, Gramma and Grampa forgot about you this year…” Yeah…
But, before I make it sound like we had a terrible day, let me assure you that it was actually quite fantastic. We spent Christmas Eve at home, with just our little fambly, and then Christmas morning the kids unwrapped all the nuggets of goodness that Santa had left for them. Then we headed to Hubby’s parents’ house (they live about half an hour away) where all of hubby’s siblings (five of them!) and their spouses and kids all gathered. Delicious food was served and way too many presents were bestowed upon us and our kidlings.
After many wonderful hours there, we then headed up to my brother’s house, yet another half our away, and hung out with him and his wife for a bit. That was a great way to end our day. From there, we drove the hour home and put our exhausted children into their beds, in their brand new pajamas. Awwwwwwww.
In true “I’m so OVER Christmas” fashion, I took down the tree early the next morning, vacuumed up all the pine needles, and packed up all the decorations. Not in a huffy or frustrated way, just in a “I’m done with Fuzzles eating pine needles, I’m done with Scooby breaking ornaments, I’m done with needles all over my floor, I’m done with Fluffy ringing the jingle bells constantly, and I’m done with Bubba trying to knock our already very wobbly tree over” kind of way. Christmas is over here, folks. O. Ver. Though, I confess, I still have some Christmas CD’s out. That’s the only part of Christmas that I don’t get sick of by Dec. 26! My hubby, however, is ready to lock up my music collection. He doesn’t like my music. Because he’s weird.
And there it is, folks. Thanks to all who have sent me Christmas wishes, including those of you who sent cards in the MAIL (wow!!!). Hope you all had a Merry Merry time!
***And, just a note, Soap Opera Sunday will continue its hiatus this weekend too. We will resume the first weekend of January. That should give everyone the chance to come up with something fantastically soapy! Let’s have a record number of participants that day!!!
Glad to see you back Brillig and also glad you survived you survived the holidays. My tree comes down tomorrow. (It was supposed to come down today but I got lazy) You take care. (((HUGS)))
Jan
We had the vomiting over here too. Fun. My tree is still up although I wish it was not. Care to come help me undecorate?
We’ve some how managed to avoid broken teeth (ouch) and vomitting on Christmas. Not sure how.
Of course, the way you describe it - it all sounds like such fun!!
Merry Christmas! And wwwweeeeeerrrrrrrreeeeeee done!!
Good grief. How tired are you? Glad there was so much good mixed in with the frustration!
Hon, your life is never dull!
We never got our tree(ecologically correct fake) up to begin with. Take some deep breaths and relaxxxxxxxxxx. Hugs.
Ah what is Christmas without absolute madness??
Nothin’ says Christmas like Hot Vomit! hahahahahahahaha!
It sounds like a blast at your place Brill. Remind me to come visit… uh… next year.
Happy remainder of December to you darlin’. It’s a new year soon!
You little stinker. You let me complain about my relatively bump-free day and never let on about your challenges.
We’re having all of P’s HT families over for dinner tonight, so I’ve kept our tree up. It is SO coming down tomorrrow. Don’t get me started on how a displaced conifer festooned with shiny danglies makes our neurotic feline even nuttier than usual.
Happy New Year!
Sounds like a wild ride, Brillig! Glad you made it to the other side.
We’re still in Christmas mode. Then, again, the dog and cat are not eating needles or knocking down trees. Happy Christmas music!
nice post. and welcome back.
Marry Christmas to you. that was really an adventure.
It looks you had a great Christmas. thanks for sharing.
One of the things I notice every year about what to be thankful for at Christmas time–and that is when it’s “over” LOL. We’ll have Mom here with us until New Year’s day–so we’re still enjoying the gabfests around the kitchen table and playing Scrabble and Yahtzee and doing crossword puzzles before she returns to the nursing home. But as for the holiday buzz–like you, I can say, it’s over and I’m outta here
Blimey. That was eventful.
Happy New Year brill. Hope 2008 is good.
Whew. I guess if I were in your shoes, I’d be ready to be done with it, too.
The Man was saying “Do you HAVE to listen to Christmas music ALL THE TIME?!” … ON CHRISTMAS! He was met with shocked and disappointed faces from his family.
I’m just not ready. I don’t know if it’s because the cookies (or WhiskeyMarie’s Gravity Theory) are weighing me down and making me lazy or what, but I don’t want to be done with seeing Christmas lights when I drive through my neighborhood after work. Or people being nice for the sake of Christmas.
You sound like you had a nice time with your family. I am so over Christmas too…but I’m just either too lazy or too tired from the festivities to take down the tree.
Oh well….I’ll ignore it.
Have a happy New Year!
Glad you managed to have some fun amidst all the chaos! Enjoy the new year… hopefully it will be a vomit-free celebration.
Glad you had a nice Christmas…Happy New Year!!!
Merry Christmas!
Glad you had a good holiday!
Sounds like you had one heck of a Christmas. Something has to happen every year …it makes it a memorable one. This year all of my kidlings were well. It was my year to be the handicaped one…the Christmas of Mommy Mummy all bandaged up.
Happy Christmas and Merry New Year!
Wow, you took down the tree the very next day.
I.am.IMPRESSED!
I could have used your energy around here. Just got to putting all the decorations away this weekend. I am afraid it looks to be shaping up to be that kind of year. Three weeks behind on everything…!