Christmas Day was nearly perfect around here. The boys were excited and happy (Preston was more excited than I’ve ever seen him – it was fantastic!!). We spent the day playing with presents, putting together Legos (ow, my fingers), and napping / relaxing. We cooked up a traditional turkey dinner and had a nice meal.
By far, the best presents the boys got were their new iPods. They are loving the FaceTime feature and Matt and I were getting a big kick out of playing Connect Four from across the room from each other.
I received some charms for my pandora bracelet, some of those awesome tech-geek friendly gloves (so I can use my phone without freezing my fingers off!), a gift card and by far, the best gift? A SIGNED copy of The Beauty of Different by Karen Walrond . It’s been a long time since I was so touched by a gift that tears sprung to my eyes. Not only is the book AMAZING, but to have it signed? Pure awesome by Mike. He definitely would win the best gift prize this year – you know, if we gave those out.
It was a lovely, relaxing, very nice …
And to all a good night
The Perfect Gift
My favorite thing about the holidays is giving gifts. Don’t get me wrong, I love to receive as well, but I honestly love to give. Finding the right gift for each person on my list isn’t stressful, it’s fun. There is nothing better than seeing a look of pure joy and excitement on the face of someone as they open a present. I like finding things out of the ordinary; things that are unexpected.
The trick to this is always keeping my eyes open for potential gifts. For example, I was at Borders one day and there was an author I’d never heard of signing books. I glanced, smiled and walked by. I made my purchases and then walked out of the store, when I saw the sign for the author in the window. He was signing a book he wrote about a house he grew up in that was haunted. It was a local story and sounded kind of spooky – absolutely perfect for someone I know who loves all things Halloween and scary.
For the kids in my life, I always try to come up with something fun and sightly educational. Arts, crafts, science projects are all big winners (thankfully).
My …
Gifts for K
Here are some new sewing things I’ve been working on…I think I *might* be getting the hang of this!!
This is a grocery bag – it folds into a little square to make it easier to remember to take with!
Here is what it looks like opened. It’s the same size as those plastic bags from most grocery stores.
K loves all things personalized, so I made a couple of coffee cup cozies for her morning addiction. And since presentation is everything, I will actually get a coffee cup from Timmy Ho’s and put a gift card in it with the cozy on the outside.
Here’s the pink one with fringe:
And just for fun, I made this water bottle identifier / poncho type thingy:
