Hello pals! I hope you’ve had an exquisite week. It’s been a beautiful blur between Christmas and New Years, and I’ve loved all of this time with the crew. We’ve loved gradual mornings, hikes, purchasing, nails, studying, and films. I’m positively not trying ahead to highschool returning, particularly the early morning scramble and hours of homework.
I hope that my pals who celebrated Christmas this week had an exquisite vacation. My dad and stepmom had been out of city – my step-grandmother handed away. She was so sort and great, and I’m grateful we had been blessed to have her in our lives. We had a low-key Christmas Eve at residence with Chinese language takeout and Christmas Chronicles, and I met up with madre for midnight mass. They turned the lights down for Silent Evening and it was the right strategy to begin the vacation.
The ladies had been up brilliant and early for Santa’a items and stockings, after which the household came visiting for household items, tamales, beans, egg casserole, cinnamon rolls, and the Pilot’s well-known egg nog.
We spent the morning collectively, consuming espresso and eggnog, and exchanging items,
and everybody went residence to relax for a couple of hours.
We took a stroll and dropped off cookies to our neighbors. — I bake for 2 weeks in December and freeze every thing. This fashion, it’’s not worrying and we have now an enormous assortment of goodies for neighbors and vacation cookie trays. These cookies, these cookies, and peppermint bark are at all times on the checklist.
Then, we had 20 individuals over for Christmas dinner and it.was.every thing.
Appetizers had been this large cheese board:
(plus a smaller board I positioned on one of many tables for snacking)
Artichoke dip and crackers
ALL the sweets (chocolate bourbon pecan pie, pear pie {that a} good friend introduced over, yuletide log, totally different espresso desserts and cookies)
and for dinner, we smoked two massive natural turkeys, two large grass-fed beef tenderloins, made horseradish sauce, gravy, asparagus, salad, and madre introduced over tacky potatoes. The meat was all from ButcherBox and cooked completely on the Traeger.
The hit of the night time was the video games!! I bought this concept from a pals’ Christmas get together: Saran Wrap Ball! You wrap a ton of goodies right into a ball, after which one individual unwraps it whereas the individual subsequent to them rolls two cube (die? I don’t know these items). When that individual hits doubles, the timer stops, and the ball goes to the subsequent individual. If the individual unwraps a mini bottle of alcohol, it’s an choice for them to take a shot (or hand the mini bottle to a different keen grownup to take the shot for them).
Listed here are a number of the goodies I wrapped into the ball:
and the completed product:
It was a day filled with enjoyable occasions, good meals, and beautiful items, and as at all times, my favourite half is being with so many individuals we love a lot, on the identical time. I’m so unhappy the vacations are over!!
It’s time for the weekly Friday Faves get together, however I solely have a couple of for ya:
– Wonka. It was SO good; method higher than I anticipated. Hugh Grant is a ten/10 Oompa Loompa.
– This retainer cleaner. I didn’t need to spend $100 on a Zima, however discovered this one with higher opinions and it was solely $40. It made my Invisalign look model new.
– Be part of us for the Wholesome Habits Problem! All the small print are right here. I can’t wait to do that with you.
– The Organifi Shilajit gummies are SO good – I can do a publish on them for those who’d like. You may verify them out right here and that hyperlink will auto-apply the code FITNESSISTA for 20% off.
Sending you needs for a Completely happy New 12 months and I’ll see ya quickly!
xo