Getting Back to NORMAL?

Is there such a mythical beast?

 

Normal

 

Ehhh...everything is relative.

 

 

But alas, it is time to put the accoutrements of

Christmas away until next year...

or, technically this year, just later on.

 

Only 348 more shopping days!

 

 

Wanna know something crazy?

 

I have MORE Christmas dishes than regular dishes.

 

Hmmmm...probably NOT normal.

 

 

 I'm not proud of this.

 

It's a burden.  Really.

 

Just ask my husband who has to help carry the dish

box up and down the basement stairs...while doing what sounds like

some fancy breathing technique for natural childbirth (a la Bill Cosby).

{If you've never seen or heard this...I'm not responsible if you pee your pants.

The part I'm referring to is in the second half of this clip}

 

 

So...we empty the box onto the counter...

take turns hollering into the bottom to see if there's an echo...

and get to work.

 

 

So now the cabinets are starting to get back to normal...

 

 

But now the table looks like this...

 

Vicious cycle...let me tell you.

 

 

Then begins the wrapping and wrapping...

but I do love Christmas, and I do love the extra bit of cheer

that my Christmas dishes bring to every meal.

  

 

Not EVERYTHING goes in to the dark depths

of cardboard no man's land to hibernate.

Bob stays out all year...because he makes me smile.

 

However, if the time ever comes when he starts

flaunting that fact in the faces of the other not so fortunate mugs,

we'll have to have a little chat, me and Bob.

 

Perhaps I'll threaten him with the hair dryer.

 

 

Oh well...

 

this will all serve to keep me busy...

since Sara headed back to school this morning.

 

...sigh...

 

 

How about you guys?

Do you have Christmas dishes you love?

Favorite mugs?

 

Is YOUR house back to NORMAL?

Or something that kinda resembles it?

 

I hope your holidays were fabulous!

 

I've got a list of projects to get started on right away...

I think I've been a slacker long enough.

:)

 

See you soon!