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MyrnaLynne · 12-26-2007, 09:01 AM

Happy Day after Christmas (or Boxing Day if anybody is in a UK country/Canada)!
We really get cheated not having the day after Christmas be a holiday too, here in the US!

Although a lot of people are still away - anybody who had to travel anywhere for Christmas isn't going to instantly show up for work the very next morning!

Anyway, glad everybody got through the holidays! We had perfect weather here too - it warmed up, was sunny, no storms. We still have lots of snow, but we had warm weather and rain, so it's shrunk down quite a bit (but I don't think it will every be gone! LOL!)

Baked a last minute cake, and we drove down to Mr ML's sister's house. Cake was still hot and I had it on my lap, on top of a thick towel!

It's a small house and a big family but everybody packed in there somehow (about 25 people?) and it was a good time. Nice turkey dinner with all the fixings. The bossy sister inflicted the singing of the Twelve Days of Christmas on us again (having people pick numbers/be assigned verses - really dumb) and the Yankee Swap went pretty well. Most people liked what they opened and wanted to keep it (I got a Magic 8 ball! Lol), there wasn't a lot of swapping (or a lot of laughing) although one gift came with Mardi gras plastic beads on the ribbon and one of the brothers got that one swapped to him (it was a sewing kit) and he was wearing the beads the rest of the night (giggle). The hot items were a big empty plastic tool box (go figure) and a big plastic tube of large gum balls! Somebody's dentist will be happy this year.

I killed myself baking a cake to bring before we left (cranberry upside down cake) - and nobody even had any.

Oh well, it is kind of ugly with the smashed/cooked cranberries on top, but it's really delicious. I ate a piece and took it home so - if I cook again, I'll make something traditional that people want, like apple or pecan pie I guess. Or chocolate chip cookies or brownies. Would have been a lot simpler, and would have been eaten (somebody made brownies with chopped up candy cane pieces in there - Mr ML Jr liked those a lot).

Everybody liked what we gave as the family gift and we got a lot of nice random stuff (the usual suspicious homemaked stuff by the neice who is the worst cook), and of course, the bratty nephew Mr ML and MLette had run everywhere to find a particular toy for opened it and whined "But I have this one already" (whine whine). Yep, his mother screwed us again, telling them to get him something and then getting it for him too.

She is such a ditz!

She totally doesn't understand the principle of the Yankee Swap either (she had one of her kids play, and put in a toy for her kid - expecting somehow magically her kid was going to get that one). Anway, that was Christmas. Dog missed us like crazy being alone - Christmas is his worst holiday (as he never gets to attend).

Christmas eve another relative who lives across the street (and is 90!) has a family party for another part of the family and that is always very nice. The food is never anything we remotely want to eat, so we just go and chat with family and it's very low key and nice. That lady is 90 and still bakes amazing plates of cookies to give everybody to take home as a gift! She is such an amazing woman (and amazingly nice too).

I know there are websites to brush up on English grammar rules, VB but I don't know of any to learn English. But I'm sure they are out there! And I think your English is very good, just sometimes you spelling of words is a little creative/how they sound (phonetic). Oh, MLette and I watched that Israeli movie "Ushpizin" and it was pretty good. In Hebrew (and Yiddish) with subtitles. A religious guy and his wife get visited by two escaped convicts on Sukkot. (Shades of 'Rites of Passage'?)

Wen LOL that Mother got the lump of coal and the reindeer poop as gifts!

I'm sure she was not amused!

I heard from Maggie and she made it safely to Christmas in Vancouver (and that is her photograph).

Oh well, managed to survive another Christmas and on to 2008 (and Mr ML's birthday). And can't forget Jason Behr's birthday this coming weekend. Can't believe our baby boy is 34 already (just like I can't believe my little nieces who were teenagers at our wedding are in their 40s now with big kids of their own!!)