If I want to be technical, we’re still in the Christmas season. Since tomorrow starts a brand new year, I just wanted to take a minute and share some things about my lovely Christmas season of 2024. 
I think we’ve all had some hard Christmas seasons by now. If that’s you, I pray your next Christmas is a truly wonderful and magical one. Remembering the hard ones whether there was illness, grief of loved ones, or financial hardship, or even something else that I’m forgetting here, probably gave me a good reason to sit up and take notice of this Christmas.
And no it wasn’t “perfectly perfect” as I didn’t even get a chance to read Mooseltoe (look it up if you have young kids!) to my preschoolers. However, it was full of fun and love. And I’m sharing the highlights here so I can remember them. I just hope you’ll enjoy reading about a few of my special Christmas season moments.
Christmas Season Highlights
Random photos sprinkled in for fun.
I enjoyed joining in with Tamy over at Chasing My Life for Blogmas until life here got busy (good busy not bad busy) and I fizzled on blogging.
That was sometime after my birthday which falls in December. It was also a wonderful day (I can’t even begin to share how unusual that is…): on my own Christmas shopping and peppermint coffee, easy dinner night of sandwiches from Subway followed by a fun game night with the family and the most thoughtful cards and gifts!
A surprise outing with my husband, pizza and then, we drove around looking at Christmas lights! A fun street renamed Santa Claus lane where all the neighbors had blow up Santas, then Gingerbread lane, etc.
Time with girlfriends touring local homes some historical decked out for the holidays. Another girlfriend’s White Elephant Christmas party, so much fun! The 5 pound package of pasta I wrapped as one of the gifts brought lots of laughs. More time shopping with my husband. 
Christmas Eve breakfast with my brother-in-law and sister-in-law, we hosted last minute but it was so nice to spend time with them. And as always, a beautiful candlelight service at the church (J did indeed play).
Christmas morning with lots of gifts and laughter. A Christmas morning phone call from my brother who lives in Texas. Christmas dinner with my other 2 brothers and sister-in-law, her sister, and my niece. Of course, we missed the family who opts out but still had a fun time with amazing food and conversation. Just listening sometimes can teach so much. (Lesson for myself)
This week with lots of lounging, television, and togetherness. (Okay, I’ll be honest a bit much togetherness at times but overall it’s been great)
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I’ll end here by saying Thank You for reading along, bearing with me as I disappeared for long stretches here and was entirely too slow to respond to comments, and did not visit my fellow bloggers nearly often enough. Thank you for all the kind words and encouragement you share in the comments. So nice to read and often a lift just when I need one.
Happy New Year! May 2025 be full of magical love, kindness, and blessings for all of you!
Happy and Blessed New Year, my friend! Christmas comes and goes so quickly. I still have Christmas up. Not ready to take it down quite yet! Looking forward to a new year of blogging friendship!
I still have more Christmas around than usual and keep reminding my husband it’s STILL Christmas until January 6 😉 Cheers to a new year of blogging friendship! Happy 2025!
Happy Birthday – that can’t be said enough when you’re birthday falls near such a BIG holiday! Thank you for joining in for BLOGMAS where you could. I AM simplifying it A LOT for next year! Sounds like you got a lot of family time! Happy New Year!!
Aw, thank you, that’s really sweet. My poor sister in law’s birthday is the 22nd of December, that’s rough. Yes, we’ve had lots of family time this Christmas break. We didn’t do much but it’s kind of nice with grown kids as the pressure to go and do and see is not so great. Happy New Year! Hope 2025 is a great one for you!