Hello pals! I hope you’ve had a beautiful week. It’s been a stunning blur between Christmas and New Years, and I’ve loved all of this time with the crew. We’ve loved sluggish mornings, hikes, procuring, nails, studying, and flicks. I’m positively not trying ahead to high school returning, particularly the early morning scramble and hours of homework.
I hope that my pals who celebrated Christmas this week had a phenomenal vacation. My dad and stepmom had been out of city – my step-grandmother handed away. She was so variety and fantastic, and I’m grateful we had been blessed to have her in our lives. We had a low-key Christmas Eve at dwelling with Chinese language takeout and Christmas Chronicles, and I met up with madre for midnight mass. They turned the lights down for Silent Night time and it was the right solution to begin the vacation.
The ladies had been up brilliant and early for Santa’a items and stockings, after which the household came to visit for household items, tamales, beans, egg casserole, cinnamon rolls, and the Pilot’s well-known egg nog.
We spent the morning collectively, ingesting espresso and eggnog, and exchanging items,
and everybody went dwelling to sit back for just a few hours.
We took a stroll and dropped off cookies to our neighbors. — I bake for 2 weeks in December and freeze every little thing. This fashion, it’’s not worrying and we now have a giant 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 little thing.
Appetizers had been this big 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 truffles and cookies)
and for dinner, we smoked two massive natural turkeys, two big 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 evening was the video games!! I bought this concept from a pals’ Christmas occasion: Saran Wrap Ball! You wrap a ton of goodies right into a ball, after which one particular person unwraps it whereas the particular person subsequent to them rolls two cube (die? I don’t know this stuff). When that particular person hits doubles, the timer stops, and the ball goes to the following particular person. If the particular person unwraps a mini bottle of alcohol, it’s an possibility 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 among the goodies I wrapped into the ball:
and the completed product:
It was a day filled with enjoyable instances, 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 occasion, however I solely have just a few for ya:
– Wonka. It was SO good; approach 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 evaluations and it was solely $40. It made my Invisalign look model new.
– Be a part of us for the Wholesome Habits Problem! All the main points are right here. I can’t wait to do that with you.
– The Organifi Shilajit gummies are SO good – I can do a submit on them in case you’d like. You’ll be able to 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 Yr and I’ll see ya quickly!
xo