It was the best of times, it was the worst of times!

The best first -

Christmas Eve with my brother AND sister TOGETHER, in the same house. (long story, those of you that really know me, know the story and how unlikely that scenario is). We had a good time, good food, everyone was gone by 9:30. Connor in bed, asleep by 10:30. Elves played until midnight...

Christmas Morning with the joys of my life. Connor woke up at 5:30AM, came into our bedroom wanting to go downstairs, we both groaned, said "NO", "You have to wait until at least 6:00AM". 6:00AM - coffee's on, kitties get their Christmas morning treat and we start on our stockings....

My boys treat me SO good....in my stocking was an iTunes card, lottery tickets (I won $3...Yoo Yoo..lol), a music DVD of my favorite band, Nickelback (it's them playing a concert in 2006 at Sturgis, SD....man, that would have been a party that was fun to go to), a pink heart candle tart holder for my scrapbook room and a couple of scrapbook mystery paperbacks by Laura Childs.

Connor gave me a beautiful Brighton necklace. This one is very different that what you would normally see, it has two small dogtags and a disc. The dog tags are engraved with "Create" and "Style" and the disc has an engraved design on it. I love it! He also bought me the new James Patterson's novel, "Cross Country".

Fred outdid himself, he gave me two new Jim Shore Heartwood Creek figurines, one is a reindeer to go with the sleigh Santa he bought me last year and the other one is from the Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer collection, it's Santa and Rudolph by a Christmas tree. They look great in my collection.

He also bought me a Day-Timer organizer. It's the one area that I can't go electronic on, I like written lists and a written date book. I tried a Palm Pilot for a few years, but I found I never used it for appointments, to do lists, etc. only for addresses/phone numbers and a couple special applications I loaded on it.

Christmas dinner was with my sister and niece and nephew. They came over around noon and spend the day. We exchanged gifts and had a traditional Turkey dinner.

Now for the worst -

I have somehow really f*cked my back up and I'm bummed. I do not EVER have back problems, that's Fred's achilles heel, but somehow on Christmas Day, I either bent over wrong, turned wrong, squatted wrong, I don't know, but I can hardy move. No way can I go to the gym like this. Hell, I can't bend over to pick up anything. Connor, bless his heart, helped me get my pants and slippers on this morning and thank god, Fred has pharmicuticals.....I took a muscle relaxer this morning and fell asleep for a few hours, but even after my nap, it still hurts like hell. Thankfully, I don't go back to work until January 6th, so I have time to heal, but I do have plans over my time off and I'm hoping this doesn't interfere with those plans.

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with your loved ones!