Our First Thanksgiving At Our Place

Well as you guess got from the title we had Thanksgiving at our place this year. We finally have a big enough place to have people over to enjoy the holiday. We had 16 people in total all together, I was running around like a kitchen without a head all week & working. But in the end it was all worth it, just to be able to spend Thanksgiving with my husband, my mother, & the rest of the family. We even had a surprise come from NC. My husbands cousin came for Thanksgiving and his wife went to Florida to see his family. 


All in all it was a great day with a lot of ups and downs but we loved have Thanksgiving at our place for the first time. 

Happy New Years!!!

I am glad that we are finally in the new year but at the same time I wish that 2010 could've stayed here forever. If we could stay in the year 2010 that would mean that my husband wouldn't be going to Afghan this year & I would stay with him for ever. I know what I signed up for & I know the territory that comes being married to a Marine. 

Anyways, sorry for my rant but I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Years & wish you all that you get what you want this year. I love you all!!

Merry Christmas!!!

So we ended up not going to Maryland after all, we stood here in NJ. We ended up going over my mom's house & I cooked to invite everyone over to eat. I went all out, I made 2 pans of lasagna, a ham, mashed potatoes, mini croissants, and a cake for desert. Everyone loved it (not to toot my own horn but tooooot toooot...lol) & they are all coming over to eat the lefts overs. 

I really did get mad yesterday because we didn't go to Maryland but I'm over it & we had a great time today. 

My husband made me open my gift because he wanted to see my reaction & I loved it. He gave me a laptop so we can skype when he leaves for deployment next year. He also loved his gift too because I got him the Kinect that he wanted so bad. Now I just wonder what he is going to give me for my Birthday (Jan 2nd). 

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE !!!!!!

Sometimes I hate the holidays...

Don't get me wrong, I love to spend time with my husband & our family but I just hate the way that things are between my mother & Angel. 

My mother never really liked Angel until we went to Parris Island to pick him up from boot. She was so proud of him & everything. But then we got married & since he is a reservist she saw that he was having a hard time finding a job. We lived with her for 3 months (they were the longest 3 months ever) after we got married. He worked on base for a little while & then they didn't have funds to keep him there. The way that things are with the economy everyone was having a hard time finding a job & it sucked that he was one of those people. 

I always hate being in the middle of everything because my mom would complain to me about Angel & he would complain to me about my mom. Obviously I wouldn't relay what they said about each other to them because that would make them hate each other. 

Now, I'm having a hard time because we are leaving to Maryland tonight to spend X-Mas eve with my mom's side of the family & are coming back on Saturday (X-Mas Day) to spend it with with his father & siblings. Even though my husband doesn't want to go he is going just to please me really. But in reality he wants to stay here in NJ with them, my mom, & me in our place celebrating all together, because he is deploying in a few months he wants the holidays to be special. He says that God forbid & he doesn't come back it witll be the last time he can be with them for X-Mas.

My mom is ok with leaving today but wants to come back on Sunday. So when I called her & told her about the idea she just had to put in her two cents by saying, "Ok that's fine but since we always have to do what Angel says we are coming back on Saturday instead of Sunday but that's fine let's do it." Uggghhhhhh, it's things like that that they say that piss me off sometimes or get me upset because I wish they would have a better relationship. I mean he is my HUSBAND & she is my MOTHER so I can't take sides. She is the only person I have left from my immediate since I've been 10 yrs old. After the accident(I'll explain later in another post) we had in back in 97'.

Well, let me get ready to leave my job & head home, wish me luck for these Holidays.

Merry Christmas everyone, I hope you have a great time with your loved ones.

 

The Holidays

I seriously love the Holidays. It is such a beautiful time of year to be with the ones tha you love but it is also very hard especially if you have lost family members like my husband & I have in our life. Later on I will post exactly how, why, & who it is that we lost that makes the holidays just a little bit hard for us. Those topics need a post of their own so you guys can fully understand.

But on another note, I'm so excited that we are traveling south to spend Christmas wth my mother's side of the family in Silver Spring, Maryland. Incase I don't write until after Christmas I wish everyone one a safe & happy holiday.

Ready for Turkey Day?

Hello!!! So is everyone ready for Thanksgiving, cause I know I am. The hubby & I were invited to North Carolina to spend it with his family, to my family's house down in Maryland, my aunt's house & god-parents house here in NJ. It is Tuesday morning & we still don't know what we are going to do. Which that annoys me because I like to have everything in order if we are going to travel, but since I still don't know what my husband wants to do I can't get organized.

On another note, I am trying to save some money & come up with some money because the hubby & I are going to have to buy another car & get rid of his old Toyota Tercel so I decided to make flans & sell them. I already have 12 orders that need to be delivered tomorrow for everyone's Thansgiving dinners. I made 6 yesterday & plan on making 6 more today. Just with these orders alone I'm gonna make $180 by tomorrow night. Not bad for just selling flans, don't you think? If I had more time I would've made my Turkey cookies, cakes, & cupcakes to see too.

Anywho, I hope everyone has a great & safe Thanksgiving weekend. Eat all you can because everything always taste better during the hoildays & when you are with family.