holiday blur

post-sickness and post-holiday blur. i tried my best to savor the moments of peace and calm, even though they were few and far between. it's been the best couple of days, especially coming down after the week we had last week. we started the partying off by going into daddy's work on friday for his holiday party- he spent the whole time in the bathroom overcome with the bug we had all week...and on our (long) drive home, spent the time puking into a thin, white dunkin donuts bag (thank god i had a seasame bagel that morning!)...until the bag gave out, leaked puke all over the inside of the car- now the whole left side of my white van is covered in streaky yellow stomach contents. despite that, however, i was able to enjoy my friday (john retired to bed until saturday). i spent the best afternoon with dear friends, drinking hot beverages and catching up, watching the kids tear up the house. i heart shaun and sara. saturday morning i had girlie time...started off with a huge breakfast crafted by C. (thank you C.!), and completed with a massage for a tired and post-sick mama. it was the best hour i've had in a while. sat. was spent hosting an early christmas for john's family, which was satisfying. i heart watching people in my home relaxing and eating (no secret there).

saturday night was spent drinking a deeeelicious bottle of wine (all to myself) at C. and erina's house for a shaun and sara party! scrumdiddly tapas and good friends rounded off a very busy day. i heart getting drunk and playing charades. and winning (well, tie-ing) the cook-off for the night! let's heart it for peppermint bark!

sunday was spent eating biscuits all day and drinking coffee and baking and watching my kids be complete freaks. the night was spent drinking pomegranate martinis (sense the drinking theme?) and eating more deeeelicious food and being with family. my favorite gift was this HUGE binder full of copies (hundreds of pages worth) of my late grandfather's poetry and letters and ramblings. seriously. i heart thoughtful gifts. thank you auntie and uncle!

monday was spent eating cinnamon buns and drinking coffee (theme again) and watching kids be freaky some more. santa skipped the cookies and raided the fridge and left a plate of half-eaten kielbasa, which really got gray. she was convinced it would make the reindeer poop (evidently she started believing in flying reindeer again). luckily we only got our kids a few gifts each, because everyone else on this planet bought about 100 gifts for each kid. it's ridonkulous. seriously people! can we remember that i live in a microcottage? really though, everyone was super generous. i'm trying to instill some sort of 'appreciate every little thing you have' value in gray, so it's been a battle this christmas with all the gifts. she has this thing...even when she opens something she loves, if there's an unopened gift next to her, she's all "what's next??!? moving on!" it's horribly embarrassing, but completely normal i think.

my favorite gift (besides the pepere book) was a painting gifted to me by john. it's a painting of my favorite restaurant in portsmouth, NH. i bought him a painting by another artist last year of the restaurant, and this year he found this one for me. they will hang together in our living room. the card that john wrote for me sealed the freakin' coolness of the gift. i'd probably post it here right now if it weren't downstairs buried in piles of stuff.

i haven't gotten a chance to go on the computer at all the past week or so, hence my missingness for the blogosphere. i'm sorry that i haven't been able to check in on all my peeps. i'm going to try to seize these next couple of moments to peek in on your holiday blurs. i hope they were as blurrerific as mine.

xo