Christmas...Days 6 and 7

Friday at last.....yay! L-o-n-g week that ended with a l-o-n-g day!

But life is good and my Christmas celebration is good despite long days and a long week. Last night I finished the wrapping. Well, at least what I can do. I have a couple more things to purchase and some things that have to go in gift bags because they just can't be wrapped. But what can be done is done.

And this evening I celebrated by watching The Santa Clause...The Escape Clause. Cute movie! I didn't know I was going to be watching it, but my friend Angela stopped by and offered - so watch, we did!

In not so Christmas related, yet very exciting news, this evening also brought about the installation of my new carpet on the stairs. I'm very excited to have that project behind me! I can't believe how much better it looks in there. I'm not sure how I doubted...it had nowhere else to go but up in looks. :) So I definitely love that.

And since I was sort of confined to one room while they worked on the installation, I sorted pictures for my upcoming scrap-a-thons. I found a multitude of pictures taken around this time last year...at work. I could see a definite change in looks from last year to this year. It was funny to me because just this morning I looked in the mirror and thought, man...for all the better food and no pop and working out...I'm still really fat. And then I went to breakfast (hmmmm....) with Olivia and completely randomly, she told me that she could tell a big difference. So I told her what I'd just been thinking and she said, "Well go home and find a picture from last year." I forgot about the stack I hadn't scrapped yet, so they were in the pile to sort. And she's right. I could see it then. Just the boost I needed to keep from drowning that sorrow in a pile of cookies.

So all around - good days!