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Good Morning!

Stuck at work, my last day though... done at 2:30! After work I need to get baking because I slacked yesterday, and finish the last couple pages of a scrapbook that I'm making for a friend. We also have 4 gifts that aren't wrapped yet, so gotta get on that too! lol

After the baking we're going caroling with a group of people at our church to a local nursing home. Its fun! By the time we're done there, my nieces will be in town from Ottawa!!!! Yay!!!

Tomorrow morning doing breakfast with a friend that moved to St Catharines, but is in town visiting her dad, then picking up my one BM and bringing her and her daughter to our house. They were going to spend Christmas Eve alone, so instead we're bringing them to FI's family Christmas with us (his family has HUGE hearts, and his mother and sister have bought the little one, my non biological niece lol, gifts hahaha). Christmas on his side is dinner that evening followed by Santa arriving to give the kids their presents while the whole family relaxes, drink in hand, watching the kids get all excited ripping eveything open lol :)

Then Sunday morning we'll be on the road at 7am with both dogs and both cats, heading up north to visit with my family for 3 days. My niece (my brother's daughter) has informed me that apparently I am watching Chipmunks with her while I'm there hahaha, so I guess that's part of the plan :)

What are everyone's plans for the weekend/holidays?

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  • Merry Day Before the Night Before Christmas Everyone!!

    Britt, you sound as busy as I will be.  Here's my weekend...

    I work til 5 today.  Then I think the plan is that FI will drop me off at home and I will start baking the cakes for the cake balls.  FI is going to pick up his mom to come over and help him wrap presents.  I still have to wrap presents sometime too.

    Saturday I will finish the cake balls.  I think we are going to church with FI's family then to my parents for appitizers then back to his family's for dinner.

    Sunday is presents with FI in the morning.  Then we go to FI's mom for presents and dinner.  Then to my parents.

    If you got through all of that you deserve a Christmas cookie and a stiff drink.  Unless your Jenn, then you get asprin and lots of water to help the hangover from last night.

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  • Britt, you are sure busy! I'm glad you'll finally get to see your neices! Cathy~ummm, cake balls! I didn't even need as aspirin today, just some water lol!! Well, I slept in a bit today so I gotta get moving! I'm gonna hit the gym for a bit or finish some shopping. Not sure. I did not wrap anything so that needs to be done. I am donating a coat my dtr wore 2x to a girl that has nothing so I need to wrap and deliver that today. Also, tonight is Christmas at my dads. I think we will take home my dtrs car from there but she still has a week of punishment left. Too bad it's a week she's off from school! Have a great day!
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  • Ummm... I want cake balls
    Why is the word cake balls making me giggle today lol am I 12 again? BALLS
  • It always makes me giggle when I say that I am making cake BALLS....Sometimes I have to giggle on the inside though.
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  • Hehehe atleast then I'm not the only one... I'm going to annuonce to FI that one of the girls was making Cake BALLS, he'll giggle too lol
  • Jenn - that's great about donating the coat! 

    Sounds like everyone is pretty busy. :) I have off today so I am just getting things together before I leave for my flight. Heading to the airport super early so I can avoid as much stress as possible... hoping this is the first Christmas that I don't have to deal with any flight issues! 

    Have a great day, ladies!
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  • Ah, lucky! I'm done until 6, but I'll be off until Tuesday. ;)

    Caroling sounds fun ;) I've never done it but always wanted to. And I love old people, so I can only imagine! When I was younger and took dance lessons, every Christmas we would go and dance at nursing homes. Kinda cheesy but they seemed to enjoy it ;) Congrats about your neices!

    Your Christmas plans sound very fun and entertaining ;)

    Tomorrow morning FI and I will be doing Christmas with his family. Our nieces (FI's nieces, haha) will get to open their gifts and I am so excited about that. I love them so much! Then tomorrow night I'm just going to hang out with my mom and sister (who is home from school in NYC), and my dad may drop by. Traditionally, we always open one present on Christmas Eve, so I'm sure that will happen. Yes, our parents still play Santa, haha. Sunday will be a normal Christmas morning, then my dad and mawmaw (Mom's mother) will come by for lunch. And I'm in charge of dessert that day, and I still haven't decided what to do! That afternoon, me, FI, and his immediate family will head to a family friend's to barbeque, drink, and celebrate my future MIL's birthday. Monday I have Christmas with my dad's family, which I always love. Great food and family time. FI is still working on getting off of work, I will be sad if he can't because he couldn't be there for Thanksgiving either. ;( Then Tuesday I'm back to work until Jan 1. ;(

    P.S. I have downloaded a new game/app on my iPhone called Pet Shop, it's just like all the other Bakery Shops, Farms, etc, but with pets. I'm addicted. ;)
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  • Donating the coat makes me feel better about the evil thoughts I had this week! I've been cleaning, I'm sorry I missed such funny stuff! Lora, have a safe flight!
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  • Good morning ladies! I am working today too, 9-7 but I was def about 20 minutes late.... whoops... o well it took me like 20 minutes to scrape off my damn car which I was not expecting. I literally had a foot and a half of snow on my car plus a layer of ice... awesome. O well luckily my boss is out today and we should be pretty slow so I 'm not worried.

    Then tonight I need to make some of the reindeer cookies that I found on pinterest for my little cousins. I also need to run to the store to pick up the stuff to make bruschetta for tomorrow, plus pasta salad, and two batches of cinnamon rolls in the bread maker. I always hate how busy mine and FI's christmas is. Tomorrow we have lunch with FI's dad at noon then we head to my cousins at 5 for my extended family christmas, then on christmas day my mom and sisters are coming over for breakfast and after that we go to a movie with FI's mom and then his sisters come over after that for dinner at his mom's.... Ugh I'm just tired thinking about it!

    Have a great day everyone!




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  • That much snow Sam? We're having a green Christmas here, but I'll be driving further north too the snow on Christmas day :)
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    [QUOTE]That much snow Sam? We're having a green Christmas here, but I'll be driving further north too the snow on Christmas day :)
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    Ya it is totally ridiculous!  It started snowing wednesday around 4:30 and snowed all night and all thursday morning until like 4pm.  I didn't drive anywhere on Thursday so I had all the snow piled up on my car.  Plus the snow drifts around my car were like mid thigh and I could hardly get to my car to even scrape it!  We will have snow on the ground for christmas, but it should not snow any more...I hope....



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  • Sounds like some fun plans!

    Today I'm doing some cleaning and wrapping some gifts.  TomorrowFI works until 5 but I'm going to my parents to wrap a little more and then we're all heading down to my grandfather (not looking forward to it).  On Xmas we are going to FI's mother's house in the morning to watch his sister's kids open presents, then go back to my parents for presents and dinner, then head to FI's aunt's house to have dinner with his father's side of the family.  I'm so not used to having tons of xmas's, we'll still have another to do next week too.  I'm used to spending the whole day at home in my pjs! haha

    Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

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  • I'm jealous of Sam....I want a white Christmas.  I guess we got a white Halloween instead.  Thanks Mother Nature.
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    [QUOTE]I'm jealous of Sam....I want a white Christmas.  I guess we got a white Halloween instead.  Thanks Mother Nature.
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    Lol you can have all the snow Cathy!  I hate it lol.  FI loves snow on christmas, but I could honestly do without. It just makes everything so much harder since we travel to so many different places...



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  • You can ship it right up here.  Both FI & I want snow sooooooo bad!!
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    [QUOTE]You can ship it right up here.  Both FI & I want snow sooooooo bad!!
    Posted by Cathyl7910[/QUOTE]

    it is so funny how we always want what we dont have especially surrounding snow for christmas! 



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  • Good Morning, Ladies!

    My first order of business on my 11 days off was to sleep-in. Check!

    I have a pretty mellow day today. Plan on getting the house cleaned up before my mom comes over tomorrow and finishing up a few projects. I got almost all of the presents wrapped last night, but need to finish up with the last 4 for my cousins today, too.

    Last night we tried to go to Peacock Lane, but it was insane.  We've never seen it like that.  You couldn't even walk. We turned around and left.  We are going to go back tomorrow night, but at the late side when kids are all sleeping. It's our little tradition, so we have to go!

    I think I'm going to try making baconaise today. You can't eat store bought mayo on paleo because of the oil they use and the sugar that's usually added.  But, you can eat it if you make it yourself. So, going to give it a try.  If it's a success, I'm going to use it to make bacon deviled eggs. Ummm, who was a vegan and vegetarian for years?

    Tomorrow during the day, more working on the house and getting ready for Christmas.  My mom is coming up and we are going to have a dinner of kaluha pork and braised cabbage, onions and carrots. After dinner, everyone is going to open presents so we are able to get out of here quicker on Christmas day to make the 3 hour drive to my grandparent's. After presents and probably playing a game, we will go see the lights on Peacock lane.

    Christmas day we will open our stalkings, have breakfast and hit the road.  All of my family will be at my grandparents.  We will do the big present exchange and have a big dinner.  I am so not eating Paleo on Christmas!

    Britt- Good luck on getting all of your baking done. 

    Cathy- Mmmmmm, cake balls! Are they salty?

    Jenn- Good luck on getting all those presents wrapped. 

    Lora- Have a great trip!

    Sam- That made me tired to read, too!
  • Yay for sleeping in Kimmy! Never heard of baconaise before. I'm not a big mayo fan, wonder if I'd like that? Sam, I want your snow too!
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  • I am making sweet cake balls. 

    Is baconaise really made out of bacon?  If so that sounds yummy.  I love bacon.
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  • ONLY HALF AN HOUR LEFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Sorry, just a little excited to be done for the holidays hahaha
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