Christmas 2010 has came and went.

The tree is now empty and barren of gifts.

The remains of the day are ready to be hauled of to the dumpster at work tomorrow.

It was a white Christmas, and most of the white still lingers.

As Christmases go, it was a pretty good one.

Went over to Karen's mom's house Friday evening for the annual Blevins Christmas Eve party. Had a nice dinner, everyone exchanged presents, and I managed to get the heat turned down a bit so nobody passed out from heat stroke this year.

On Christmas Day all the kids and grandkids and their boyfriends and girlfriends came over for our annual Christmas Day Brunch around eleven. We had a full house for a couple of hours and we managed to polish off around 3 dozen scrambled eggs, 48 link sausages, a pound of bacon, 48 assorted orange danish and caramel rolls, 3 pounds of steamed shrimp, and a gallon each of orange juice and eggnog.

We usually host a big dinner on Christmas for all of them, but decided not to this year. Put a nice beef roast in the crockpot that morning and had a dinner for just the two of us that evening. Guess I'll make roast beef hash and have a little leftover macaroni and tomatoes later today for dinner.

Karen loves the little Toasty Toes heated footrest I got her for her computer desk.

Uses about the power of a 100 watt light bulb and really does keep your feet and legs toasty warm on these cold mornings.

She got me some cookware of my own and an electric hotplate to take to work! Great! Some things I take in my lunch just don't warm up well in the microwave. I think I have an small unused black metal table in the office that I can move into the breakroom to put that all on. Downside is Johnny will be expecting me to cook for him all the time.

The ranks of the Nutcracker horde expanded by seven.

Karen's sister Sylvia got me this nice UK blue wine bottle nitelite.

I love it!

I think it's actually an ornament, but we gave Matt and Cassie the white tree this year. I kept all the UK ornaments tho, so who knows, may do a Kentucky themed tree again one year.

Til then, it makes a darn good nitelite!

So, how was your Christmas?

Secretly glad, like me, that's it's over til next year?

Next weekend will be New Years Eve and New Years Day.

2011.

Hard to believe, seems just yesterday everyone was worried about the Y2K bug!

Bring it on.

I think I'm ready for a new year.