Our Christmas Day has come and gone so quickly. This year we hosted the James Family Christmas in our house, marking the 99th Christmas this home has seen. We enjoyed every moment, even the stressful ones, of having my family here for the holidays and look forward to next year.
Our holiday season started with our decision to foster Crash from Stray Rescue of St. Louis. Our hope is to eventually adopt him, but he has to understand first that the cats are a part of this family.
We got our first real Christmas tree together. Like the Grinch's heart in the end, this tree was about 4 sizes too big for our home, but it really helped make our Griswald Christmas quite the success.
We were so blessed to spend quality time with both of our families this holiday season. Our James family meal was a huge success as Ryan attempted beef tenderloin and rocked it. Ryan received his PS3 this year and I received my coveted boots. Ryan also purchased a small sewing machine for me to start trying on little projects for the home.
My goal is to be able to start a little side business and hopefully eventually be able to generate enough income to where I could work from home mainly. We have so many ideas for small business' that we have put on hold due to our busy lifestyle, but we're hoping that with the completion of our upstairs our lives will come together a little more.
As we packed up the Christmas decorations today and took our gigantic tree outside, we realized how blessed we are to have our families and friends to celebrate the holidays with. We have loved these past 11 months of entertaining in our home and with such a successful Christmas, we look forward to another fantastic year of having friends and family in to our home.
We have so many items on our agenda for this upcoming year. We are so thankful for the love and support of our families and all the help from our friends. Here's to another fantastic holiday season and a fresh start to the New Year.
Merry Christmas
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