Other - Café Con Monica

Welcome back to real life…well unless you work in education too and you are still on winter break. Yay Winter Break!! Anyway I thought I’d do a little recap of our first Austin Christmas!

Since AJS works Christmas Eve and we know basically one other person here I didn’t want to leave him alone for the holiday. I opted to fly back home on the 26th and do a makeup Christmas with the family.

Traditionally Christmas Eve or Nochebuena is a big deal in my family, much more so than Christmas Day. We have a big get together, dinner, and exchange gifts on that night. We have been known to attend church services but not as much anymore. AJS works on Christmas eve then visits his mom, and usually visits his dad on Christmas day.

I wanted to make us a nice dinner on Christmas Eve even though we agreed to open gifts on Christmas day. I did request that we go see a movie in our PJs since that is usually what I do with my family.

I decided to make a ham, some congri and platanos for dinner on Xmas Eve and even put on some makeup and a dress even though it was just the two of us.

We watched Die Hard and then went to bed in hopes that Santa would come overnight.

Christmas Day

We woke up pretty early (anything before 10 am is early while I’m on break), made some coffee and opened our Santa gifts! Clearly Santa gets me since I got some new luggage I had been eyeing from DesignLoveFest for Target.

AJS was pretty excited to get a batman blanket he can use on the couch (since we like to keep it a cool 65-67 in the apartment at all times)

Then we watched A Christmas Story and he made some yummy brunch of lactose free biscuits and gravy and cranberry jalapeno candied bacon!

I took a much needed nap…

And then we went off to Alamo Drafthouse to the Elf Movie Encore. It was our first movie party so we were excited to find props, singing along and general silliness like a balloon snowball fight.

Overall it was a great two days! I am so happy that we got to share our first Austin Christmas together and I am very excited to see my family today!

How was your Christmas? Do you celebrate on on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?

We are down to 3 1/2 days of school til Winter Break guys! I couldn’t be happier. I am exhausted!!!

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Just like everyone else I love to watch as many Christmas movies as I can during the Holiday Season so I thought I’d share some of my favorites with you guys!!

I don’t have cable so I don’t get to watch the ABC Family 25 Days of Christmas but I can just find the movies and watch them on some of the same nights!