and how was your holiday...

ok....i admit it, i should've known. the fact is that i am surrounded by 'guys'. and added to this i collect pitiful dogs that run amok... year after year i have the idea swimming in my head that this is just going to be the most perfect celebration....shiny glimmery things, wonderful food, friends and family. and then, well, it turns into the usual family event...my being outnumbered by these 'guys'. i seem to have no authority over them...they run in a pack...i cannot tell you how many times i chanted: "there is a woman in the room", or "you will never be invited to eat at the white house if you eat like that!" occasionally an eye will be lifted towards my general direction but in no time it wanders back to devouring the food like wolves...or the conversation begins again as i play 'dumb' as to what they could possibly be talking about...i felt like i was caught in a world somewhere between a barn and a bar...

then it was off to the other side of the families celebration....now i love to go to my sister in laws home for they have endless energy...their home is decked out in a celebration that could be in a magazine...the food is always so splendid, and the both of them are just so darn pretty...and as i walk in i always think - yes, it's so normal here and smile....

but then let's add all the personalities....and shebang it could be a sequel to 'home for the holidays'....phew...there are a lot of different opinions, and all in one room...

and as we all leave, just like in the movies... there are lots of hugs and 'i love you's' and 'i didn't mean it's", and promises that next year each and every one of us will be traveling to some undecided place on earth, and will not be able to get together...hubby annouced - we will be in vermont, and his sister assured us that they would be off feeding the hungry children, anywhere in the world...and i yell out to my brother in law - thanks so much for having us, we don't get many invitations...

i began to think today....ohhh, i should really try to do something 'special' for new years eve...wouldn't that be fun?...then i began to think of wonderful things i could bake, new recipes that i didn't get a chance to try for christmas... and how fun it would be just to let everyone know that we will be having a gathering, and that we would love it if they could just drop by....nothing fancy, just come as you are....an all day fun event!