Feeling better today but still a tad tired. Went to bed last night at 9pm and got up at 10:30am this morning. Did feel a bit more rested and plan on spending the day on the Internet and watching some college bowl games before watching the Pats tonight.

Still have a tad of the hangover effect but better today.

ahhh come on craig...we wanna see a new picture with the pony tail.

hugs for the room.

LOVE IT!!!!! now a harley and leather jacket.......

I am officially exhausted. I was OK after our mini Christmas on the 25th. But I knew the big one was coming on the 29th. I have never had 30 people in my house. I know some of you people have and you are used to it. We live in a bilevel and pretty much half of the lower level is family room. We have a ping pong table down there so we scooted that it a corner, put all the food on it and then put three big tables up. My family room furniture was still there, well rocking chair and recliner went into the laundry room temporarily. And the Christmas tree was up with 10 families worth of gifts around it. So it was a little crowded.

I was so proud of the younger wives, except my oldest daughter. She thinks her job is to take care of her children. But the other ones just took over in my kitchen and did the entire meal. After we're done eating, all the husbands clean up, load the dishwasher. We use disposable everything now for eating. I'm sorry Grandma, your china is in the china cabinet and looks beautiful! All the married women fill the stockings and then the fun starts.

I was tired before we started eating, exhausted after eating and numb when it was stocking stuffing time. I just sat on the floor and couldn't hardly move. And I was a crab. It was my house and I was a grab. My 83 year old mother offered to sit on the floor so I could have her chair. All I could do was fill my husbands stocking which was easy cause he requested only 15 pieces of candy and some peanuts! Everyone did a good job of cleaning up before they left but we still need to vacuum and put the house together. And I'm still looking for where everyone put things in my kitchen!! But it was fun. My son in law goes off to Iraq in 3 days and his family was with us.

My husband got one of those helicopters and we have all enjoyed it. including the cat. She had to be quarateened off in my bedroom the whole weekend because she causes a literal hissy fit when we have any company. So she has to sleep in there to. So when I let her out we have this helicopter flying all over the place. I got my husband a GPS and I am enjoying it. I got a digital picture frame and haven't done anything with it yet.

I pretty much suck.

I shopped after Christmas because the kids spent the holiday with their mom. Dad and I spent the day cooking a small roast and sleeping and watching old movies.

I had a week off and literally did NOTHING. I finally got it up to vac and clean the old fish tank when the man brought the boy back north 200 miles.

I saved some money and the kids liked what they got( cause they oicked what they wanted) but...it just sort of draggggggged by...

Yawn..is it all over now?