You know you’re old when >>insert old person thought, saying, action here<<. For me this week, it’s “you know you’re old when you look forward to recycling day.”
Along with everyone else who celebrates Christmas this time of year, there’s been a constant influx of packages being delivered to our doorstep the past few weeks as we ticked off the list of friends and family we had to buy gifts for.
(I don’t know about you, but all the way through Thanksgiving day, it feels like I have all the time in the world to do my gift shopping, but as soon as Thanksgiving dinner is done, I think “oh crap, I really need to start my gift shopping.”)
Working Up Until Christmas & Cleaning the House for Hours
Aside from the chaos of making sure we remembered to buy everyone’s gifts and that they’d all arrive in time, there was the mad scramble to clean the house before Christmas Day.
Our (my husband and I’s) agenda for the week was to spend Christmas Eve with my family, spend Christmas morning with just the two of us at home, host Christmas dinner for some of his family, then host dinner on Boxing Day (we don’t actually celebrate the 26th here, I just felt like giving the 26th a name so it wouldn’t feel left out) for his friends.
As we worked all the up until 5 PM on Christmas Eve, that didn’t leave us a ton of time to prep the house for our guests. We spent so many hours the weekend before and the morning of Christmas cleaning the house.
Anyone else go over the top cleaning their house when they know they’re about to have guests?
The Festivities & The Same Christmas Sweater for Three Days
As soon as we finished work on Christmas Eve, we loaded all the presents in the car and headed to my mother’s house for dinner. This year, she made a vat of chicken and sweet potato curry with a mountain of bread for dipping.
My outfit for the evening was a llama and cat Christmas sweater with black leggings, wool socks, and black Doc Martens (see my review here). Over top, I wore a black shirt jacket (similar to the plaid one from my Doc Martens review) and a black crossbody bag.
My husband gave me this sweater last Christmas after we had already seen all our family and friends, so I didn’t have a chance to wear it last year. I had been looking forward to wearing it for the past 363 days, and was determined to make the most out of it this year, so I wore it three days in a row.
Christmas morning, we took it nice and slow. We had coffee and breakfast while watching tv, and opened the presents we had gotten for each other. We then spent the next several hours cleaning and cooking as we were expecting my sister-in-law and her family that evening.
Unfortunately we found out last minute that she wouldn’t be able to make it, and we were stuck with four pounds of pork belly that we’ve been digging our way out of since Christmas.
Boxing Day saw me back at work until 5 PM, but the festivities weren’t over yet. One of my husband’s friends was visiting from out of state, so we hosted all his friends that evening. We ordered Thai food, played some games, exchanged presents, and just had an overall good time in good company.
So that was my Christmas week. I hope you all had a lovely one yourselves. We’ll be spending the foreseeable future eating pork belly and disposing of the mounds of cardboard from all the package deliveries.
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