I was thinking over the last few days that I should be keeping a notepad nearby to keep track of so many things I loved about this year. Alas, I didn’t heed my own advice, so some things may have been forgotten already. But here are a few:

Jeremy came home Wed. night!

It was such fun getting packages in the mail. Most were from online ordering, but we received a few surprises — including a duplication, or actually, a triplication — which will result in a blog giveaway one day next week. 🙂

It snowed Christmas morning! Not a whole lot, but enough to give us our first white Christmas ever (at least at our own home. We may have had snow one Christmas when we were in Idaho to visit my husband’s folks.)

So much about Christmas day itself — bringing Grandma over, our usual Christmas morning breakfast of cinnamon rolls, sausage rolls and cinnamon sliced apples, Jim reading the Christmas story, gifts given and received in love, a scrumptious lunch — Heavenly Ham (almost free with a gift card Jim had received three years earlier when we lived in a town without that particular ham store) — (and someone to share lunch duties with — Mittu made several dishes), naps, leftovers, a couple of rousing game of Apples to Apples, trying out Jesse’s new Kinect, more snow but not enough to cancel church Sunday, watching a couple of videos together.

Jim reading Christmas story from Matthew

Grandma checking out a gift basket from Jason and Mittu

Silly hats…

Jeremy was supposed to fly back to RI Monday night, but his area was experiencing a blizzard with 10-12 inches of snow. He could make the first leg of his flight but we weren’t sure about the second. We didn’t want him to get stranded at an airport in between here and there. But the flights were all scheduled on time, so we dropped him off at the airport — and he called a while later. His plane was delayed, then it was discovered it had a flat tire, and by the time they got that all fixed there was no way he could have made his second flight. All Tuesday’s flights were booked up by other travelers who had been stranded due to weather, so the earliest flight out was Wednesday morning. I’m so glad he got to stay for a while longer, and that he wasn’t stuck in an airport for a long time.

This was from our first good-bye Monday night:

I didn’t take any of our second good-bye in the wee hours this morning — I stayed in my pjs and didn’t go with them this time. 🙂 It was lovely to have him home for that extra time.

There is a bit more to our Christmas week, but I’ll save it for the Friday’s Fave Five post. All in all it has been a great week.