Merry Christmas and Happy New Year From My Family to Yours

Hi all.  Thanks for bearing with me during my break. Everything was just catching up to me all at once.  Still have issues, but working on them.  Learning to deal better with my pain.  In all honesty, I was really beginning to worry that I was going to lose my mobility, but that was just my over-active mind working.  Even if I do, it will be a good long while.

As usual, our Christmas plans went awry, and we have yet to celebrate our big family Christmas nor my Christmas with my Goddaughter....but I get ahead of myself.  Christmas Eve was wonderful.  My two youngest, who live in New York, met me at church for Christmas Mass.

 Afterwards, we headed to the house for a feast.

 Shrimp sauteed in butter and garlic for hubby.

 Two huge pans of lasagna.
 

 Meatballs, sausage, and ribs.  Yummy.

We also had buffalo wings, chips and dip, candy, cookies, jelly donuts (in honor of my Jewish ancestors), and Christmas cupcakes.  

All in all, it was a wonderful evening....despite the fact that my Goddaughter decided to invite us to spend Christmas Eve there.....at the last minute....and then got mad at us when we said we couldn't do it.  Now, I WOULD have invited them here, but my place is small, I have lots of breakables, and she has the most unmanageable kids in the city.  I've mentioned them before.  The littlest runs around non-stop throwing things at you and calling you a bitch, the 7 year old has been put out of two schools, and after school program, and  told she can no longer attend the Fresh Air Fund.  The teen age girl is a young prostitute.  The only good one is the boy who does well in school and plans on leaving home as soon as he graduates.  The problem is my Goddaughter DOES NOT discipline.  And says it is all someone else's fault.  Just can't understand why they are not wanted anyplace.

I woke up Christmas morning sicker than I have been in over 50 years.  Stomach flu.  The pernil went into freezer for another day, and I went right back to bed where I spent the entire day.  We were supposed to go to New Jersey on the 28 for Christmas there, but the day before my granddaughter found herself nursing 3 sick children.  One was vomiting, the other had a croup like cough, and the third a fever and ear infection so that was out.  Then we planned on New Year's Day over there, but my daughter and my son are both sick.  So, like last year, Christmas waits on us. 

Whew!!!  That was a lot.  

Just put my pernil in the oven.  It will only be hubby and I.  A quiet day.  

May you all have a wonderful New Year.