That About Sums It Up

You are too funny! We have a case of the post-Christmas blues too - inevitable, I guess. On New Year’s Eve we will also have appies, and go to bed around 10. What’s wrong with us?!

Enjoy your break, and have a lovely New Year

My boys would be seriously jealous of those costumes! We go to West Edmonton Mall Waterpark for their big New Years Eve bash every year, my kids look forward to that day more than Christmas. But sadly hubby is away working this year, and I can’t handle four kids in a crowd of over 5000 all by myself! Enjoy the cocktail weanies and fireworks! Oh golly, that sounds worse than I meant. Happy New Year!

I am seriously lacking in the blog reading department. But I’m back!

Love the cake….and the cute candles. I can’t make a cake to save my life, so I think it’s beautiful!

For New Year’s Eve, we’re going to a family party with a bunch of our friends with little kids, and celebrating at 7pm, which is midnight GMT. And when we get home, Troy and I will watch some classic movie we’ve never seen before (this year, To Kill a Mockingbird) and have root beer floats, which has been our New Year’s Eve tradition since we’ve been married.

There is NOTHING wrong with that cake, lady. Yeah, maybe the writing’s a bit off-center, but seriously, so not a big deal. It clearly was homemade with love, to Grant’s specifications. It has curly candles. And most importantly, did it taste awesome? Then it was an awesome cake! (You know what I hate? I hate it when I’m served a piece of a beautiful cake and I take a bite and the flavor is so blah dry and doesn’t match the exterior at all.)

Oops, I meant Graham, clearly. My best friend’s younger brother is named Grant.

I understand the post christmas blah’s. I experience them myself. When you’re grown with no kids, the magic of Christmas isn’t quite as wonderous. I really look forward to one day creating that magic for my own kids - create traditions and watch them tear open gifts:) Beautiful Chaos!

Happy Belated Birthday to Graham. Your children are adorable!

Sorry to hear about the post-Christmas blahs. I do know what you mean though. It’s all a bit anticlimactic, really. SO MUCH anticipation and then bam, it’s over!

Spidergirl is CUTE!

The cake looks great, and I bet Graham loved it!

Happy New Year to you guys … I hope you have a fun evening! We are heading to our friends’ place to eat and drink, and we might even stay up til’ 12.05!! Woot!

Love ya!

I hear you on the BLAHS. It’s icky.

I also hear you on not liking much of what you write. I LITERALLY have a “WARNING” on my archives because I am pretty damn sure that reading them will cause bleeding of the retinas.

I love your blog, and you and your little girl in the Spiderman costume.

AND…Your cake could beat the ass of ANYTHING I could pull off.
Trust me on this one.

Hooray for closing the laptop! I haven’t done that in a good three hours. I’m feeling inspired….

(Your kids are quite adorable. If I haven’t mentioned that. This week.)

I can definately relate to those after Christmas “blahs”…No matter how hard I try, I can’t avoid them!

I think the cake looks wonderful as do the rest of the pictures! I love the first one of Graham - he’s looking so grown up!

Tomorrow morning my family has rented the skating rink for a first annual family and friends skate and we will have hot chocolate and Timbits! Wanna come?!?! Then, tomorrow night I’m going to be with a couple of friends…Just chillin’ and eating!!!

Happy New Year to you and your family!

I too have the after Christmas blues.

My New Years is going to be a class-a evening. WORK.

Feh.

I have not been blogging much over the holidays and to tell you the truth I kind of like the break, it has been good. I have not been spending much time at all on the computer and it’s been good for me.

As usual I love the pics of your kids, they are cute and they make me laugh.

Hugs.

And a happy New Year to you and your lovely family : )

Yeah Spidergirl! And I love the idea of fighting to the giggles. =)

I’m visiting the Scout Ranch in New Mexico where I’ve worked the past five summers. A lot of former staff comes in every New Years, we have a mini-fiesta, go to the one bar in the tiny (but wonderful) town nearby, and then we play in the snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Can you tell we don’t ever have snow where I’m from, haha?) Hope y’all have fun! =)

Catch you next year…!!

It sounds like a perfect way to celebrate the new year!
I like apres Christmas because it is a guaranteed lazy time, eating leftovers, and just hanging out together.
May 2008 be the best ever!

Your New Year’s plans sound like ours. We never go out. We have appetizers, play a game, do the deed and try to keep ourselves awake until atleast 12:01. We are WILD!

Have a great year Angella! Here’s something to make your 2008 worthwhile- I will be making not one, but two appearances in your tiny town this year.

yeah, someone else who will admit to not making it to midnight! We always pick a country and say we’ll celebrate new years with them - somewhere where it happens earlier this year.

I’m in the post-Christmas blahs too - until it starts to get lighter here (and it’s dark for so long) I’m a grump…

I have the same blahs but I think mine has more to do with the fact that on-line is back up and running and I am not so much.

Our New Year’s will be similiar minus the yummy appi’s. Time to start getting in shape for the beach holiday!

Happy new years, Angella! Don’t delete, I don’t have enough Canadian bloggers to read and yours is one of the best!
I celebrate new years by cleaning my house, ordering food (so I don’t mess up the clean kitchen) and going out. This year I’m house sitting so I cleaned my own place yesterday and the place I’m taking care of today… Luckily I have no kids running around keeping me from my ‘important’ work but I just love the idea that I wake up in the new year with everything clean to start over with.

Definitely post Christmas blahs. I think it is like wedding in a way. So much hype surrounding the stuff thats not so important, the craziness, the presents, the cooking, the relatives, the excitement, then *poof* one day it’s over. Add some ehaustion, too much food, little sleep and a whole lot of cleaning up….

But I love winter

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I gotz the blahz too. Nice to know I’m not alone and we can commiserate.

I don’t ‘delurke’ often enough and thought I should pay ‘my respects’ and thank you for all the work you put into your site and for the smiles it brings to all of us who read it. I to feel the blah’s, but find happiness in knowing spring will soon be here!! I wish you and your beautiful family a Happy New Year!!!

Totally in agreement with you on the blahs. Or perhaps I’ve caught it from 3000 miles away either way, I’m actually looking forward to being back at work and busy again.

Happy New Year, friend.

Happy Birthday Graham!

Love your outfit Spider Girl …

I think the cake looks yummy.

I understood the LAME comment and that it refered only to you! I still think it would have been good, but tough and long and really tough!

Happy New Year!

I sure know what you mean about the after holiday blahs/blues Angella. Truly! And if you read the post I just posted, you’ll see why for me - in addition to the normal “blues”. So, I understand.

Loved your pics though, as usual. Have a Happy New Year!!!

The cake looks great! Emily doesn’t even look like a boy even with the Spiderman costume on - it’s so funny she would ever be mistaken for one. Happy New Year!

I know you like lists, so here’s another one.

1. I’ve had that this is so lame feeling many, many times before. It sucks. But, I’ve never found one of your posts lame. Ever.
2. NEVER click on the blog delete button.
3. I know you’ve had comments about Emily looking like a boy, but even in that Spiderman costume, she’s the most gorgeous one-year-old girly girl I’ve seen.
4. Our new year’s eve is going to be exactly the same … hee hee.
5. I’m checking out your etsy shop right now!

Close the laptop, take a breather and come on back, we’ll all be waiting for you! I love the photos you decided to share with us. Have an awesome New Year’s Eve and I hope you get over the blahs soon.

Happy New Years! We have a pretty quiet night planned. The kids are hopefully finished that lovely stomach flu - there has been no barfing since yesterday morning - but we are worn out and will probably just watch a movie in bed and go to sleep at some ridiculously early hour. Hopefully we will see you soon!

Sounds like a good New Years…ours is pretty low key with some yummy appetizers as well and some friends are coming over to watch a movie/play games. But we make it till about 12:01 then we say goodnight- we aren’t the party goers much ourselves. Doesn’t help that this year we are waiting for a baby to make an appearance- that contributes to my post-Christmas blahs. Why can’t I have a baby on time?

Quiet stay at home New Years are nice. Life sure does change once you have kids, but they are SO worth it. This year we had New Years Eve far from home with my out-laws. That and wondering how much snow we have to dig out once we get back home. *sigh*

Happy New Year and hopefully these winter time blahs that everyone has will go away quickly.

New Year’s Eve is so overrated…it is almost always disappointing in some way because it gets hyped up. I was just glad to say good bye to 2007.

Happy New Year, Angella! Many happy days in 2008 for you and yours.

oh, i get ‘em too…the blahs…
let’s blah together!

Spanokopita…my husband is greek and would love to hear that! The kids are beautiful. Happy New Year.

Don’t get excited about Christmas.
Then there’s no let down.
Heh.
Got your card, your husband? mmm.
(you too of course and your babies)

Happy New Year!!

I am trying SOOooooo hard to talk myself out of the post Christmas funk I always end up in….

New Years was great–we spent it with a huge chunk of Mike’s family in Florida (Pine Island) and about two minutes before we started counting down, I won a big hand in poker. Than we hit the road at about 12:02 and drove home to crash before getting up at 5AM to tackle the fun of flying standby. But we made it home and I rang in another year with my favorite man. And geared up for the birthday, of course. It’s one thing after another this time of year. I love it.

Also, I hope the blues past–if it helps I have roughly 230 blogs to read in my Google Reader feed and yours are the ones I opened first.

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