Just a quickie

I hope everyone had a great weekend/holiday/etc. Mine was very nice. My sneaky family bought me a cuckoo clock! I have been wanting one for years - I almost bought myself one while on vacation in Bavaria many years ago. It was a real surprise!

The boy's big gift was a Nintendo DS - the new generation of Gameboy. He was pretty excited about that. Don't worry - he got plenty of other stuff too. That was the biggest thing - I don't believe in spending a fortune at Christmas. Saturday we went to the afternoon church service, then a light supper over at my mom's, and then we rode around a looked at Christmas lights. After that, we got my mom's dogs & all went over to our place. What fun! How can you not be happy with a lapful of doggies? :-)

Oh, and Friday we went out to the fondue restaurant for a belated job celebration. The thing is, because you are cooking your dinner at the table, you are eating for about 1.5 hours or so. You don't feel like you've eaten a lot, but its more than you think. And it starts with cheese fondue and ends with chocolate fondue - can I just say I had a serious tummy ache? But the food was really good, just waaaay richer than I am used to! Actually, the overeating started Friday and didn't end until bedtime last night. I'm not waiting until the new year - the gym bag is in the car!!!!