It is officially that time of the year again...when it's just one fun gathering after another and the food just never stops!! It sort of makes me wonder why people want to get together over the holidays and not during the rest of the year?? I wonder if the other months feel inadequate next to December and the joy that it produces?? Do you think that February has low self-esteem given that everyone either dreads its arrival or saves their pennies all year just to escape it?!?!? Poor, sad February!! Imagine the therapy that it requires?!?!
Anyways, where was I...??
Our first gathering of the season arrived right on time...December 1st...complete with snow and traffic jams!!! The Donaldson's had a great party at their place complete with a cookie exchange and, for some of us, the premiere introduction to baby Cole!!
Sunday was the pseudo Smyth Christmas (though not the same because we were missing Heather and Roberta) in Petawawa. The Tilbury Smyths arrived on Thursday, we joined in on Sunday (though Steve almost got thrown from the car due to his backseat driving!!) and the Leamington Smyths followed that afternoon. In the grand tradition that is a Smyth festivity...there was lots of food...lots of laughs and a fair share of sarcasm from the Smyth men!! Apparently, there was even some "loud kisses" later in the evening (a story for another time!!!)!!
With those two behind us (and getting over the disappointment of the Liberal Convention!!!), we now set our sights on the weeks to come; A Christmas night out with the girls this coming weekend, drinks with Matty and Sarah, Sunday afternoon with Cathy and John, NRC Christmas Party, NGC Christmas Party (including the best Christmas tree EVER! Rockefeller Center...eat your heart out!!), Christmas bowling with my crazy co-workers, the Georget Christmas (still to be determined), the Smyth girls spa day, dinner with Matt & Kate, a London visit with Christina and certainly a visit with the Chatham friends thrown in there somewhere!!
Whew...where are the flying reindeer when you need them!?!?!
And just for the record...our Christmas shopping is entirely DONE!!! Wrapped and all!! Our Christmas gift to ourselves is not having to walk into a mall between now and 2007!!
Merry Christmas to us!!!!
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