What I've Been Doing During Christmas Vacation So Far...

Been spending a lot of wonderful time with family.  And eating.  And eating.  :-O
 
Just to update you - we played the "dollar gift game" at two of the celebrations we attended, and I think I did really well.  The first time I ended up with a Christmas moose salt and pepper shaker - it's really quite cute.  The second time I got a digitized camo baseball hat that says USA.  Since my latest hairstyle was already likened to Sarah Palin, the addition of the camo hat, I was told, really solidified "the look".  (Was that a compliment?  I'm really not sure...)  
  
Keep in mind, these prizes seem stellar compared to the "prizes" I COULD have ended up with - like a ceramic woman's torso in a flowered bathing suit and a gorilla head you can hang on a wall.  Actually I think DH and one of my BILs made out the best - another BIL who is very handy and clever and has amazing MacGyver-esque "woodsman" sort of skills, made two mini-marshmallow guns out of I believe PVC pipe (last year he made a "weather stick" which was hotly contested).  Suffice to say, my poor MIL who hosted our family get-together is going to be finding mini-marshmallows for the next six months in her living room.
 
And in my spare time today, I read through the 8 months of blog posts that I hadn't read before discovering "City Mouse Country House" a couple of months ago.  It's about "City Mouse" and his quest to build a small home on his Adirondack property.  A thoroughly enjoyable read.
    
That's it so far.  Tomorrow's plans include church, and then DD wants to ride her new scooter out on the street, and it just may be warm enough to take Q-ee for a spin in the cat stroller (which if you recall, was an early Christmas present)!  Hope you are all having a chance to relax.  What have you been doing?
 
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