Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~Norman Vincent Peale

Good morning! I know that it has been at least a week and a half since I have blogged. Honestly, my life has not been THAT interesting lately. I have just been busily getting ready for the holiday season.

Today is my first day of Christmas break, and I am so excited about this day! We had a half day yesterday and now we are off until January 4th.

Mr. S. and I had Christmas with my mom and step-family on Sunday, and it went really well. We got the funds to put the blinds in our downstairs, so my job today might be to hunt those down. I would really like to put them in today. They are the wood blinds, and I love them!

Mr. S. and I are going to have Christmas together with our roomie on Christmas day. There will be no traveling this year, and we have not had to travel for the past couple of years on Christmas. I almost like the tradition we have started here at our own house. We open gifts, watch the parade, I make breakfast, and we all sleep. Then I am making dinner that night. The menu includes shrimp scampi with linguini noodles (chicken for my seafood allergic roomie), baked potatoes, steamed broccoli, and bread...yum!