Christmas, relatives and all that ho ho hum

Merry Christmas!

Aren't you glad it's over?

Don't get me wrong, I love Christmas. The tree, the prime rib we have Christmas day, having the grandkids here. But...


5 minutes.

That is about the average time for kids to unwrap everything including things that aren't for them. Like the sexy nighty Daddy got mom or the boxers with big red lips that she got him.

To get to that 5 minutes of present opening there is about a month, or more, of prep.The shopping lists, the to do before company comes list, the wash this, wear that, clean, dust, wax, cook this, go here, go there!


All that buildup for weeks and it comes down to about 5 minutes of opening.


Ack!!!!


What I really love about Christmas is the peace on earth, good will toward all, seeing relatives you haven't seen since last year, getting a hug from my 12 year old grandson. I love all these things and more, like having a younger sister who is the coolest person on planet earth. That's you G !

I hope everyone had a most excellent holiday and may you all have a very happy New Year's Eve. We will be at home watching the apple drop in Times Square. Hope Dick Clark makes it.

Laundry

Well, after being sick on and off for most of the past two months, I am so far behind on laundry that my DH finally offered to learn how to run our machines!?! I knew he must be out of socks. Other things too, but socks are the number one thing with him. He would wear the same pair of jeans for weeks but socks? oh no, clean ones every day.

He has put things in our old washer in the past but the new one intimidates him badly. It is a front loader and he thinks it looks like a spaceship control board. Actually we got the new stuff almost a year ago but he showed no interest in them beyond comparing them to a spaceship. To be honest, I am probably not using them to their full potential. I put things in and set for a nice normal cycle and that is it. We are talking, you see, about machines that can apparently wash 10 towels in a pint of water with a tsp of soap, or something like that and dry them as fast or faster than they were washed. They can tell you how you set the last load to run and count down how long til they are done and the washer can tell you how fast it is spinning, just in case you need to know.

So DH says if anyone is going to screw them up it will not be him, at least he did until he ran out of socks.

So now I sorta feel like Sofia Socksorter.