Well, I've just gotten my Christmas decorations packed awayso I thought I'd better wrap up these Post Holiday posts, too, ifit's not too late!Christmas evening dinner at our house!The grand dames arrived in their finest and lookingbeautiful and vivacious as ever!Betty White has nothing on these near 90 year olds!Always a lot of energy at "the kids table", think I'll have to listen...

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What we are up to now is "Pizza Night", the eve of Christmas!And all through the house, not a clean hand!Yea. we were up to our elbows in flour and dough,marinara sauce and pepperoni!But, we still had the Goat cheese margarita, theBLT, the shrimp and garlic, the BBQ chicken,the caramelized brussel sprout pizza with sun-dried tomatoes andsmoked Gouda, the feta and olive pizza...

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So, as Sean's old room took shape as a real guest room,we continued the decorations for the rest of the house.We found a great tree lot, with great prices for boththe living room tree, here, and the smaller treefor the guest room.the trimmings continued on the "mantle" and doorways and windowsand really, every place I could fit a bough of greenerywith a splash...

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These past holidays seemed rather busy, and looking back at my picturesI guess we had a lot going on.I'll have to post in sequels before I get caught up!With Sean moved out, we had a room that neededa little somethin' somethin'.It just took us a few months to get ourselves psyched to approach it.But, we had a deadline. . . Sean was coming...

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