Christmas

Well it's over. Christmas I mean and I DID have a good day despite it getting off to a rough start. My friend from Worcester was here and didn't sleep well Christmas eve and we had a little fight that morning but worked out our differences and went on to have a great day. I had my 2 best friends over. One of them lives next door to me and the other was the one that lives in Worcester. Neither one of my kids was able to come over so I just made the best of the hand I was dealt. I plan on having a celebration for me and the boys in June or July around of the 25 of the month. That way I'll be able to see the boys and open presents with them because I didn't get to do it on Christmas day. The youngest one comes early enough in the morning that it will feel like he's getting me up first thing in the morning like he does with his dad on Christmas morning.

I don't really have any traditions that I follow with the kids. I don't get to see them for Thanksgiving and most years I only see the youngest on for a few hours on Christmas Eve day. The older on comes most years in the early evening on Christmas day as he goes to see his adult sisters and has a celebration with them and his niece. I do feel left out of someones life because I'm not close with my sisters that live in this state and the one who lives in OH is so far away. This year she sent me a box with some Christmas presents in it but didn't get it out before and it still hasn't come yet. Maybe tomorrow. I did, however, get a package from her daughter who lives in MD and if I'd checked my mailbox before 4 I would have been able to pick it up and have it for Christmas. However, I had been told that the Post Office wasn't open Christmas Eve day (thanks for the wrong info sis in OH) so I didn't make any effort to get up and check the mail. The slip was there yesterday when my home health aide went to check the mail and she went and picked up the package for me. It's hard for me to get to the post office without a car.

I cooked a full dinner for me and my 2 friends and for the most part it went off without a hitch. The ham I cooked was a litttttttttttle over done around some of the edges because I didn't cover it when I put it in and I may have cooked it a little to long but everyone said it was good. We're still eating it and no one has complained about it. I also made my sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, stuffing, mashed potatoes, rolls and had cranberry sauce. Don't ask why I made stuffing and had the cranberry sauce other than it sounded like I should have it for a Christmas celebration. I took way to much food on my plate and ended up getting a tummy ache half way through eating it all so I gave up eating and went back and sat on the couch. I ended up doing all the clean up while the 2 guys just sat there and looked at me. I had to beg them to help me finish cooking the meal when my back went out. I asked them to make the stuffing, mashed potatoes and rolls and they made more of a mess than I did making all the rest of the food all together. I found the roll wrapper in pieces on one counter, the boxes for the stuffing on another counter and mashed potatoes all over the stove. I'll never ask either one to help me again without telling them they need to pick up after themselves again. And what the heck is so hard about bending over and looking at the back of the refrigerator shelf to find things when they are told right where they are. Is it all men or just these 2. I must have said 10 times the butter quarters are in the back of the top shelf and they still grabbed the spreadable butter in the container to use in the potatoes and stuffing. I had to get off the couch and get the butter myself. I don't think men really listen to what women say when they tell them where things are. It's just to hard to listen completely to what they say. It was the same with the mixer. I told my friend 5 times where to find the mixer and beaters for it and still had to go into the kitchen and bend over to get the mixer out of the cabinet because he couldn't find it. If it had had teeth it would have bitten him when he looked in the cabinet. It was right in the front. Half the stuff my friend used to cook and make the pie with he didn't have to use he just wanted to make a bigger mess in the kitchen. Also what is with guys and rinsing dishes after you use them as well. NOTHING that these 2 guys used got rinsed off so when I went to clean up there were sticky, caked on dishes everywhere. My kitchen isn't that big and I don't have a lot of counter space and these guys left no room anywhere for anything on the counters. There were dirty dishes from one end of the counter to the other and on both sides of the sink.

Ok. Got that out of my system. I hope that everyone had a great Christmas and has a wonderful New Year.