Happy New Year!

I'm back. My week at home went way too fast, but aside from a few cranky moments here and there, and a flood in my parents' basement my last night, I had a fantastic trip. It was really hard to leave. I had such a good time hanging out with my sisters, and my Mom went all out for the holidays again. She makes Christmas for all of us. Not only that, but as a special holiday gift she took us girls to a local resort for facials/pedicures and massages on Friday. So wonderful!

I had a very merry Eiffel Tower/Paris Christmas. That was pretty much the theme of all my gifts from Mom & Rex. Move over Elvis, the Paris collection is taking over. New additions include a very cool vintage calendar, pink flannel pajamas with Paris landmarks on them, candles, and a little pillow with an Eiffel Tower scene embroidered on it.

Not to say that Elvis is dead at my house. For those of you who don't know, I had a childhood crush on Elvis, which lead to a fairly substantial collection compliments of family and friends who bought memorabilia to include in gifts for years. My accumulation of stuff grew and grew long after I put my fascination with the King to rest. Just the other day I was gloating to myself that this phase had finally come to an end (hadn't received anything in over a year), and then my friends gave me an Elvis jigsaw puzzle for Christmas! I had no clue these even existed, but I shouldn't be surprised. I took that thing with me to K Falls to work on with the family, and it quickly became known as "that effing puzzle" for how difficult it is to put together. I'll have to take a picture to post once it's finally done.

More later! Must go chef up a salad for a New Year's gathering later today. I'll have you all know that, after spending about $40 on the necessary supplies, I actually made two batches of very tasty Chex Mix pre-holidays in defiance of my rep (see a few posts back) as a bad cook. Hmph.

For the fans of the little one...