Merry Christmas!

Wow, it's been a while. I thought I would share that Christmas came to our house early this year. With Randy's work schedule and planning for all of my family to be here on Christmas Eve I decided that we would open our gifts from each other tonight. This way I can get the stack of gifts for the rest of the family and from the rest of the family to us under the tree instead of in the corner.

I was blessed this year with a lot of stuff! I kept telling the family that I wanted to be surprised so they were good at keeping secrets this year (except for the things I got for myself...lol). Megan and Steve got me a nice foot massager machine. I think Megan got tired of my asking her to rub my feet. Alan got me a really nice cutting board that has anti-slip stuff on the bottom and a digital thermometer. Randy got me a bread maker, a belgian waffle maker, a food chopper, an electric can opener, and a pair of snowman salt and pepper shakers. I got myself two outfits. I had looked in the closet and didn't have as many church clothes as I wanted and couldn't pass up an online clearance sale!

Now that all of the gifts are opened and the paper thrown away I can spend time cooking, cleaning, and planning for all of the family to come. I have already used the food chopper that Randy gave me and the bread machine. The family loved the homemade bread, and I loved that I didn't have to do anything with it except throw the ingredients in the machine! I used the food chopper tonight. It was great to not have to pull out the huge food processor!

Hmmmmmm....now that I look at my list of gifts from Randy I wonder if he was hungry? Just kidding! I love getting things for the kitchen for gifts. I also recently got a vacuum cleaner, but refuse to call that a gift. Something to clean with could never be a gift!

I will put in some of my family Christmas goodie recipes in a future blog. Merry Christmas!!

Ann Beck