Christmas 2023

 

For those of you who did not find Frank the cat in my last post, here he is!

Chris sent this with the caption, "He thinks he hiding!" LOL! I think I looked everywhere but there and didn't actually find him until Rich pointed him out to me! 

Christmas was nice if not a little low-key. 

On Christmas Eve I had to work until 8:00 and then we went to my older brother's house for their annual Christmas Eve party. It was extremely foggy out all day and night, so the drive took us a little longer than expected and we didn't get there until about 9:30. But it was fun! 

Usually, it's the only time I see some of my nieces and nephews! It's a total food fest with the homemade Italian sausage my youngest brother makes and deep-dish Sicilian pizza my other younger brother makes. I am 100% Italian, with my mom's family coming from Northern Italy and my dad's family coming from Sicily. Both sides are represented during our feast! 

On Christmas Day we went to Shauna's. They were not hosting Brad's family this year so it was just us and Brad's mom and dad. 

We had fun watching the boys play with their gifts. 

That was pretty much the extent of our holiday this year! 

One more week of 2023. I can't believe how time flies! 

January is a busy birthday month for us. Rich on the 4th, Maxwell on the 8th and me on the 12th. 

Chris will be in town on the 10th. We haven't seen him since October so I'm looking forward to it! 

In the meantime, I wish you all a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year! 

See you the next time!

Memory Ornament

Back in January of 2021 I did a post on my wedding dress. It was in pretty bad shape, and I was about to throw it away so I took a bunch of pictures for the post and removed the 100 or so pearls on it.  

At the time I thought I had already thrown away the veil but in going through some stuff in the closet I found it stuffed at the bottom of a random garment bag. 

Here it is. 

Before I threw it in the garbage, I took all of the pearls off and cut a piece off of it. 

I had planned to make a necklace with them but decided it would be too much trouble and possibly breaking and losing them all. 

So I had an empty glass ornament and decided to just put them all in there. 

I put the piece of veil on the top to sort of look like a veil and put a label on it. 

I like it although now that I think of it, I should have taken a piece of the veil with one of the little flowers on it! Darn it! Oh well, too late now! Ugh! 

Anyway, it's a good way to preserve a little bit of my dress and veil!

In other news, 

Chris sent me this picture and it took me forever to find his cat! See how fast you can find him! 

Last week we went to Downtown Plymouth to look at the trees in the park. 

New this year is a light tunnel. Kids were having fun running through it. 

Finally, Shauna, Brad and the boys had a wonderful time in Orlando. They went to Animal Kingdom and Magic Kingdom and the boys favorite part:

Swimming in the pool at the hotel! Good thing they didn't pay for the tickets to the parks! 

That's it for now. Thanks for stopping by!