What About Mama and Daddy?

It seems like Christmas is all about the kids, but Jeremy and I had a really wonderful Christmas, too.

This was the Kitchen Christmas for Jeremy. Friends and family were all on the same wavelength (possibly because most - but not all - of them called me) and got him various kitchen tools and implements. I had already given Jeremy the stand mixer I found on Black Friday, but he still had many random kitchen utensils to open Christmas morning.

To prepare for the culinary madness, I had Jeremy rearrange the kitchen the week before Christmas and he now has a handsome shelf in the kitchen with many of his wonderful new toys.

But his best new toy (tool?) had to have a space of it's own. It's his Ken Shun knife. And yes, that's a display shelf. As in it is a work of art, not just a kitchen knife.

It was the crafty Christmas for me. Kim got me a basket of wonderment and notions, books on crocheting and knitting and the inspiration to get started.

So I took myself down to the needlework shop in town and started using the Christmas money from my mom to buy yarn and lessons. And I still have Hobby Lobby money to buy more books, patterns, and other crafty things.

Jeremy got me a new camera because I hated my other new camera. (Bottom line: if you want a quick shutter speed and can put up with Kodak's software, a Kodak is great, but if you manipulate your own photos and videos and want to use any other software, deal with the slower shutter speed of a Cannon or a Sony.)

I also got married again. To Jeremy, of course.

After seven years, I finally worked up the nerve to tell Jeremy that while I think my engagement ring is stunningly beautiful and I adore the way it looks, the marquis cut is too pokey for a Kindergarten teacher and mother of young children and a simple white gold band would be better for day-to-day wear. So he bought me a ring. And I love it.

So there you go, Merry Christmas to Mama and Daddy.