I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!
Here’s a recap of mine in pictures from Christmas Eve.
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Friday Favorites – Holiday Edition
Let’s get right to it….
Christmas cards from friends and family
I love coming home to a mailbox full of Christmas pictures! Matt and I send out a picture of Hawk. Nothing screams we need to have children quite like this…
Hot chocolate with candy canes
Williams-Sonoma make these candy canes dipped in chocolate than you put into your hot chocolate. Delicious!
Cookies
I eat cookies year round but somehow they taste better at Christmas. My absolute favorite are white chocolate macadamia followed very closely by chocolate chip.
O Holy Night
Hands down my favorite Christmas song. I have no idea why…maybe because it’s so dramatic? Least favorite? All I Want For Christmas Is You (or anything by Mariah Carey) and Santa Baby. Ugh.
Christmas ornaments
Matt and I exchange ornaments every year. We started this tradition our first year of dating so we have quite the collection by now. I love searching for something new and different each year. Matt’s ornament for me last year pretty much rocked.
Time off work
I have the week “off” between Christmas and New Years. My company “shuts down” but makes us hold onto 4 vacation days so we can use them during the “shut down”. So it’s pretty much forced vacation. I’d prefer to work and use those 4 days over the summer but time off is time off and I won’t be working which makes me happy.
What are some of your holiday favorites? Fave Christmas song? Least favorite? Fave cookie? Share ’em!
Five for Friday
Five things I’m excited about or looking forward to this weekend:
1. I have today off from work. Enough said.
2. I just finished a 13-miler with absolutely no hamstring tightness. I feel 100% back to normal, except my speed is still on vacation. It’ll come back, eventually.
3. I get to see Matt today. He’s been away for work the past 2 weeks (again). These 2-week trips are getting old. I can’t wait to spend the weekend with him.
4. Tonight is our annual Girls’ Christmas. My friends and I get together every Christmas for lots of eating and drinking. I look forward to it every year (note that the long run was done this morning so I can be hung over tomorrow 🙂 )
5. Catching up on Dexter and The Amazing Race this weekend. Matt and I watch these 2 shows together so, with him away, I had to refrain from watching them. It was hard but I managed!
What are you looking forward to this weekend?
Does your significant other travel for work often? Matt doesn’t too much but these 2-week stints suck.