December: The Shortest Month of the Year

I think December should be about ten days longer. Let's just shorten every other month by a day and add it all to December. Maybe then I'd have time to enjoy the shopping, baking, and party-going. Of course, I'm sure I'd find plenty of Christmas-y things to fill the extra days, making me just as exhausted come January.

This December was just as short as all the others. I feel like it was just a few days ago that Matt and I were waiting anxiously for the UPS package that held our fancy new Android phones. That was December 2nd -over three weeks ago!

Angry Birds!

Since that day, we've had birthdays to celebrate, multiple Christmas parties, a couple of ski days, lots of shopping, some crafting and baking, and Christmas Day itself! And now I'm tired. But it was a good month, with a lot of fun events.

A few weeks ago, my family gathered to celebrate some birthdays. My mom (November 27) and two of my nieces (November 25 and December 5) shared their party this year.

Presents and cake. As usual, most of the focus was on the little one. She turned two, and the older birthday girls let her have most of the attention.

But it was not just birthdays that we had to celebrate. December is always a month filled with holiday parties. I attended four work-related gatherings and Matt had a big work retreat/happy hour at our house.

Kids' art from our school special education parent night, and Matt's work party in our living room.

The multiple events left little time for one of my favorite things about the days leading up to Christmas: working on various crafts and projects. In fact, as soon as the weather starts to turn colder, I get in the mood to cross-stitch, sew, or make cards. Back in October, I spent many nights working on little felt zombies that I gave away at my Halloween party.

Rawr. A few of the zombies I made.

But once Halloween is over, I start thinking of ideas for Christmas cards, which I finished just in time to get them out before Christmas.

This year's Christmas card. The picture was taken by Dave when we went snowshoeing in February.

And just like that, December was almost over and Christmas was here. But more about that another time.

A Good Day

Yep, today was a good day! In fact, it was a very good day.

So, tonight, Matt and I went out to celebrate. I won't say what exactly we were celebrating yet. Let's just say we were celebrating a good day.

We went to T.G.I.Friday's and had delicious food. An appetizer, an entree, and one of these:

ULTIMATE ELECTRIC LEMONADE
Jump-start the party with SKYY Vodka, sweet & sour and a jolt of blue curacao.

It was fabulous! It didn't really jump-start any parties, but that's ok.

Then we went to Cold Stone Creamery and I had Cake Batter Ice Cream with Oreo cookies in it.

Good food (with good company) just makes good days even better. Hopefully, many more good days will be ahead.

And by the way, the celebration has nothing to do with any babies on the way. Don't get any crazy ideas.

...Although, you probably noticed the drink I had, so you hopefully already knew that it couldn't be anything about babies. You're smarter than I give you credit for.