Merry Christmas Week!

I'm listening to Glee Christmas (love it!) with the Christmas tree lights on, Christmas candles burning and pretty much all things Christmas this morning ... and yes, I'm on Christmas vacay because it's calm & quiet (other than Torie cleaning & getting the basement ready for stereo/tv/wii/etc install today and carpet tomorrow...yay...the basement is almost finished! Merry Christmas to us!) ... anyway, my point to this post is that I love Christmas music so much that I start listening pretty early and this year I noticed as I was listening on the radio I was just focusing on the basic holiday tunes (It's the Holiday Season ... a fam fave - you should see my brother Eric do a lip sync rendition complete with trench coat & fedora ... Baby, it's cold outside .... I'll be home for Christmas (always bring tears because it makes me think of my mom ... her home was always so home-y & especially @ Christmas) and then @ church we sang Away in a Manger and it hit me (a big reminder) to remember what Christmas is all about and why we celebrate and that I should be so thankful that Jesus was born and came to save us. My mom was definitely a big reminder of Christmas and pretty much her life in general ... so when I hear O Holy Night or Angels we have heard on High ... it's like a sweet reminder from my mom. So Merry Christmas to you mom and to all my family & friends! My cup runneth over!

Too long...

It's been way too long since I wrote anything about our sweet Phillips Fam! And of course, there's always lots of things to blog about...especially when it comes to Hannah & Hank...and well, Torie too...he is pretty funny and keeps me laughing. In fact today, I was talking to him (probably about our 4th or 5th conversation since he's on the road out in the fabulous Midwest!) and the topic of dinner usually comes up (by me) in hopes that I don't have to cook...because let's face it...I'm not a cooker...I'm a baker (yes, my husband agrees!)...so I asked should we go out tonite or tomorrow nite (we are trying to only eat out once a week) and he quickly said, well, not tomorrow nite (hello Nebraska is on!) and then he said he was kind of looking forward to a home-cooked meal...I wanted to ask @ whose house? LOL...anyway, though, I'm so blessed, because he said my 3 favorite little words..."let's eat out!" LOVE IT! Yes...I'm spoiled with my sweet peepers and my hot husband! CHEERS everyone & Happy Weekend!