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On Mondays…After Christmas

December 28, 2015

Can you believe it is the Monday after Christmas already? Counting down the last days of 2015! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a great weekend too.

This year my Christmas was a little different and I loved it. I spent Christmas Eve morning baking cookies with The Boyfriend and then headed to my parents for a PJ Christmas.

 Usually there are so many of us we don’t get to sit at one table but this year we asked the extended family to join us later in the evening so we could all sit at one table together.

Opened lots of great gifts and had our gingerbread contest…which I lost for the 1st time(my mom is a cheat!!)

On Christmas day we opened gifts from Santa and then headed to the movies in our new pajamas to see Daddys Home! It was super funny and highly recommended!

After the movie I headed to celebrate with The Boyfriend’s family. This is a first for me because I am pretty adamant about not splitting holidays, I don’t like the stress of getting from one place to the other and people waiting for you or being disappointed on a holiday. Since after the movie is usually the time I head home it actually worked out perfectly that they have dinner on Christmas day.

I got some gifts from his family and him and clearly with that book he knows me very well!! 

He got me some great gifts this year…

On our first vacation together we took a sailboat trip in Costa Rica..how cute is that charm???
It was a great Christmas and a fantastically relaxing weekend! How was your Christmas???

Filed in: Other, Social • by Monica •

On Wednesdays…

December 23, 2015

Oooh man I can’t believe it is Wednesday already! For some reason I thought that Christmas was this Saturday/Sunday so I didn’t plan my days well! Luckily I am all wrapped, done and ready to run the last of errands and get my food prepped for tomorrow.

thought I might share some confessions…

– I have slept till 10 everyday this week and its magnificent!

– I almost killed The Boyfriend because he almost made us late to see The Lion King…It was a deadly calm kind of scary, I didn’t freak out but in my mind I was threatening serious bodily harm.

-This rainy weather business is no fun…cold and rainy sucks. Big time.

– I’m typing this on my phone and have no idea how to use this new app on my new phone so there will be no fun pictures.

– I’m very excited to get my ass into gear starting Saturday morning…hoping to get started before the resolution crowd starts their take over of the gyms.

– Still no clue what i am doing for NYE and Im not even stressed about it…this is a big deal for me.

I hope you guys all have a fantastic rest of your week!!! 

Filed in: Other, Social • by Monica •

On a Christmas Gift Swap: Reveal!

December 21, 2015

I love love Christmas gift swaps, I have to force myself not to enter more than 1 or 2 because I will get carried away and spend all my pennies on swaps!

This year I joined a blogger swap:

I got paired up with Lauren from Life with Lolo! We exchanged info and got to shopping. She definitely gave me some good ideas to shop for her so I was glad, sometimes people don’t( like me!) I loved stalking her blog and getting to know her and will definitely continue to follow so check her out!! 
When I got my gifts I was so excited, she did such a great job!! 

How great are these gifts??? I already used the purse, the ornament is hanging on my tree and the chalkboard has been getting plenty of use around the house! 

Filed in: Chicago • by Monica •

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