Holiday Fun!!

Work sometimes is not a whole lot of fun. We get busy and stressed, and forget to lighten up at times. So I decided a fun way to inject some fun into the office for the holidays is to do a cookie exchange! I got the idea because my mom-in-law always does one with her coworkers. Plus, one of our patients brought up a plethora of cookies this morning! She makes 300 dozen cookies each Christmas! That is just crazy! Anyway, I saw how much everyone squealed over them, so I thought we need to do our own exchange!! I talked to a couple of coworkers and then my boss, and made a flyer and a sign up sheet and ta-da!! Cookie exchange is happening!!

I of course didn't think about how this would work if EVERYONE signed up! But so far there are 4 of us, and a few more who are scared to sign up too early and get stuck making cookies for 20+ people. We are also going to have a little holiday potluck, so it's just something fun to look forward to. Of course, there is also our yearly Christmas lunch at Ruth's Chris! It's not the same as the big party the owner used to throw, but this is really nice because we are all together as an office! And unlimited free drinks makes this girl happy!

I also have Chrismukkah to look forward to even after the holidays with a group of lady friends. Because we are all so busy with holidays things in December, we have it in January, we get a private room at Wildfire, and stuff our faces and exchange gifts. This is our 5th one. We start planning it in the summer time, and draw names super early cause some of us are busy bodies and shop early! I look forward to this so much each year!!

Our bowling league is even having a gift exchange!

In other news, I have my Christmas cards all addresses and signed. I just need to pick up stamps, stuff, seal, and send!! I am surprised I got this done already, but I just sat down last night and powered through it! We got the apartment decorated, and I couldn't be more pleased with the way it looks!! I had a vision, and just made it happen.

Then in a couple of weeks we are going downtown to see the window displays and having afternoon tea at The Drake Hotel. Mike made reservations without me having to ask him! I am so excited to add this to our yearly tradition, they make a mean tiny little sandwich!

And tomorrow, Mike has the day off with me, so we are going out to breakfast and hopefully finishing our Christmas shopping. We already got our gifts to each other, so we just have to get gifts for our family. And gifts for the Yankee gift swap we started doing at the B-fam Christmas. Then my favorite part of wrapping the gifts and putting an obscene amount of ribbon on them!! lol

My picture needs to be by the words happy and excited in the dictionary!