christmas 2009

wow i slacked on pics this year of christmas day itself but here is the day and eve in photos.  the traditional cheese was made, pj’s were opened, elf was watched, carmel break apart for breakfast, nonni’s amazing-big-as your body stockings were filled, faces were excited with presents wed been so hoping for, time was spent with the extended family on b’s side with yummy brunch, a wild present opening frenzy, pizza freats (sp?) made at my dads (they are amazing like fry bread and mmmm i want more!)…a first christmas in a long time with my brothers…(insert big smile here) and the evening wrapped up at a suns game with londy getting a barbie on the big screen from one of the suns dancers! it was a great day!

the advent calendar

since I was little one of my most favorite things about Christmas was our advent calendar my mom made back in 1970-something! it is a priceless item for me and one I have tried to purchase, beg, borrow or steal for years…since to my dismay I still don't have a sewing machine (I'm just gonna buy myself one since my family doesn't think I'm serious) and I still don't know how to sew! I digress…

so every year I look high and low for one for my little family and this year I found this to which I had to find something to put in the pockets and decided that everyday londy would pull a card from that days slot and that would be something Christmas-y we would do that night. which lead to one very excited fun filled month for londy and one very packed exhausted month for me and B

to which I had to find something to put in the pockets and decided that everyday londy would pull a card from that days slot and that would be something Christmas-y we would do that night. which lead to one very excited fun filled month for londy and one very packed exhausted month for me and B. We did everything from adopting an elf on a shelf named Charlie, seeing Christmas carol, stringing popcorn for the birds, watching xmas movies, drinking hot chocolate, looking at lights, shopping for a Christmas tree angel, making treats and reindeer food for our friends, making those great old fashioned reindeer ornaments, buying a sled in hopes of a day of snow up north (hasn’t happened yet)  going to Christmas parties, spending the night at nonni’s and even a holiday pic here and there.  silly little things like making a jib jab video of ourselves were also squeezed in where we could! so although the advent calendar was not handmade by my mom, each ornament hand beaded, meg and I fighting each year over who got to put up which favorite ornament on which day….we made it work and it was fun and I'm already planning for next year. but don't think for one second that I'm gonna stop bugging nonni to make me one of those damn calendars for me…lol!

Christmas Wish

 

Every morning i wake up to johnjay and rich on 104.7! they have a great banter and it wakes me up a little bit happier. but during the month of December every year i wake up with tears and chills and a sense of warming in my heart. every year these guys do an amazing thing called Christmas wish: where people can write letters about someone they know who is in need. and then these guys pick a letter, have that person read it over the air while whomever they are reading about listens…normally sobbing!

the letters normally go something like this one i love so much…

i am writing you about my friend Tim. Tim is a single dad with three kids living in a two bedroom apartment. he recently lost his job and has been working three jobs to make up for his one old job, his wife died just last year and 2 months ago he was diagnosed with some sort of awful disease. his heat has been turned off and he has been boiling water for the kids to take baths. the three kids sleep in his bed and he sleeps on the floor! please help him at this time of year where he wont have a Christmas. (yes all stories are like this) then johnjay and rich say we are going to grant this Christmas wish. buying them beds for the kids to sleep in hundreds of dollars in groceries, a Christmas tree with all the trimmings. coats and clothes for everyone, toys and gifts too. payment of passed electric bills and even mortgage payments. and the list goes on and on. I've heard them give hd TVs, strollers, play stations, days at the salon ect. by now everyone is bawling! the friend who wrote the letter, the recipient and me the listener. then the radio guys say is it ok if we deliver that right now cause we are on your front doorstep?!  and then the Christmas songs start playing…like “have yourself a merry little Christmas” and it is now officially time for me to get up cause now I'm late for work!

how blessed we are and how grateful i am for the warm house i have to live in and the job i have. the family whom i love so much and the friends i get to share this season with as well as all year long! really if you get a chance…you should listen…it will change your mood for everyday! :)