Dec
29
As I mentioned last week, I was sick with the flu. Not fun. I started feeling better on Christmas Eve, but Josh was just starting to feel sick. So, we decided to skip the festivities with my extended family. Neither of us was feeling up to chatting with everyone while watching Eleanor, and I didn’t want us to get all of my cousin’s little ones sick. My dad was hosting this year, so we waited until the extended family had left and headed over to his place for Christmas Eve gifts with the family. Since my parents are divorced we do Christmas Eve with my Dad, Christmas Morning at home, and Christmas dinner with my mom. It works out that Josh’s family is Jewish, I don’t think I could handle any more Christmas events.
Eleanor wore her lovely holiday dress and headband that my friend Megan bought her for her birthday. You may remember it from our Hanukkah post. We threw on some white tights to keep her warm and I found some matching sparkly shoes at Target, which we gave her as a Hanukkah gift. I hope you approve Megan!
You’ll notice that Eleanor went straight for the plate of cookies. She proceeded to lick the icing off of several and then run around like a crazy person. Neither Josh nor I had the energy to stop her. And, whatever, it’s Christmas, she can have sweets at Christmas. We’re not monsters, after all. At least not at Christmas.
And that was Christmas Eve. Pretty relaxed. You can tell by the way, my brother Emmett is lying on the floor. Super relaxed!
Tomorrow we’ll skip the usual Wordless Wednesday and have some words along with photos of Christmas morning!
Dec
21
Yikes, it was a busy weekend. We threw a Hanukkah dinner party for Josh’s family and a holiday party for a few friends, so I’m a little behind on my posting. Sorry!
Here is the belated Hanukkah post, and our house tour will be tomorrow or Wednesday.
December is a present bonanza in our house. First is Eleanor’s birthday then Hanukkah, then Christmas. We decided to do the one present on each night of Hanukkah thing, and just do very small stuff, but I think we’ve changed our minds. Even though it’s small stuff, eight gifts on top of her birthday and Christmas, especially with all the gifts she gets from friends and family, is just too much stuff. So we’re thinking maybe next year we’ll do just a gift on the first night and a gift on the last, or just one on the last night. We’ll see.
But this year it was eight nights and eight gifts.
Night One
For those of you who aren’t of the Jewish persuasion or aren’t Jew-obsessed like me, you can find an explanation of Hanukkah, the candles, and what that extra candle in the middle is doing there, here.
baby doll
Night Two
sparkle shoes
Night Three
dreidels
Night Four
playdough
Night Five
Crayola Color Wonder Toy Story Coloring Book
Night Six
unicorn tshirt & pants
Night Seven
red socks
Night Eight – A Hanukkah Dinner Party with the Gross Family
All sorts of presents – including a cookie monster toothbrush from us (not pictured)
p.s. This gorgeous dress and sparkle headband arrived as a birthday gift from my dear friend Megan who has the best fashion sense of anyone I know. Thanks Megan! You are the best! You can all look forward to some better photos of the dress next week. She’ll be wearing it to Christmas or Christmas Eve celebrations.
Happy Hanukkah everybody!
300 Posts! Whoo Hoo!
Time to Give Away Some Stuff!
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Posted by: Maggie
We finally reached 300 posts! So as I announced two weeks ago we are having a giveaway to celebrate! And here is what we are giving away:
This fabulous package of gifts was chosen with love to represent the best of Making Me Cranky goodness.
First of all we have my very favorite panties from Victoria’s Secret:
You may remember them from a past Fabulous Friday. I have them in a whole bunch of colors and patterns. They are super soft and comfy and they will come to you in a size medium, which I wear, but with a gift receipt to exchange them for another size if you aren’t as generous in the caboose as I am, or if you’d prefer a different color or pattern. If you are a gentleman winning our giveaway, these will make the perfect gift for that special lady friend in your life, or if you are without a special lady friend you can keep them under your pillow and dream about a day when you will have a special lady in your life. Hahaha! Oh god, I’m funny. Moving on…
Next, for the guys, a lovely pair of argyle socks:
Those in Josh’s inner circle, and the people that work in his office, know that he regularly wears argyle socks. And by regularly, I mean, pretty much every day. I’m planning a Fabulous Friday post about them. He has like 30 pairs. Again, ladies, these will make a great gift for the gentlemen in your life. And if you don’t have one, you can reference my instructions for single guys above.
Next up, a nice big red mug for your morning coffee, filled with some Irish Cream Hershey’s Kisses, you know, to Irish up your coffee:
You might remember my attempt to go coffee-free about six months ago. Well, I’m back on the coffee wagon (or is it off the wagon), in a big way and think you all should be too. I can’t live without my morning and afternoon cups, but I’m trying to limit myself to just those two cups a day. Now you can enjoy your morning cups in this beautiful red mug lovingly selected by me with just you readers in mind. I’m terribly thoughtful.
Now, I also plan to include some Newhall Coffee, my favorite from a local independent coffee roasting company, if I can get my hands on some! They were out at the store we usually shop at, so I’m going to try to get some later this week. We’ll see. I’m not making any promises.
And last, but certainly not least, straight from our latest Fabulous Friday, David Sedaris’ Holidays On Ice!
And it’s the super new hardcover edition with six new stories! This is way better than the one we have. I am super jealous. You may just be receiving a pre-read copy. Because, you know, I have to make sure it’s appropriate for my readers, who I love so much.
So, to win all of these fabulous prizes, here are the rules once again:
You get an entry for commenting on the previous post announcing this giveaway, answering the question: What is your favorite thing about the holiday season?. You can get a second entry by emailing me at maggie@makingmecranky.com with a suggestion for a Fabulous Friday post. And you can get a third entry with a comment on this post telling us what you love about Making Me Cranky. I am very clearly fishing for compliments and I have given you plenty of time to think of one, so they better be good! And I know you people are all going to say that it’s getting to bask in the adorableness that is Eleanor.
Oh and I’ve added one little restriction. I’ll only ship to the lower 48s. Apologies to our international readers, but I really can’t afford the postage. So if you don’t live in the lower 48, please don’t enter.
Okay kids, you have until Midnight New Year’s Eve (PST) to enter! The winner will be chosen, probably at random, by Brian at our New Year’s Eve get-together. The winner will be announced shortly thereafter, depending on when I’m sober enough to type.
Oh and don’t forget there will be a second prize for the 500th commenter but we’re not getting super close, so you might have to wait a while for that one. I’ll post again to remind you about it and announce what the prize will be when we’re getting closer to reaching it.
Good luck everyone!