My Christmas and Books I Received

Hello Friends,

I hope that you are doing well. I had a wonderful Christmas Day and hope you did too! My Fiancé, Liam and I woke up pretty early, just before 8 am and started opening the gifts we got for each other. We were pretty sleepy because I stayed up past midnight watching It's a Wonderful Life on CTV and Liam stayed up as well.  Once we were done opening gifts, we got ready and visited Liam's mom, and his sister and her boyfriend and we exchanged gifts and had a lovely brunch with waffles and fruit. Then we left to visit my family for dinner and also exchanged gifts which was a lot of fun. It was a pretty busy day and so nice seeing everyone. I really enjoyed our gift giving and found that we even took it down a notch because it wasn't too many gifts this time. I enjoyed seeing my sister's in laws as well who also joined us that evening.

after opening our gifts

Sleepy but happy on Christmas morning

 On Boxing day, we were at my parent's house and I gave Moo and Roo their Christmas gifts. I got them each a springy tube toy, catnip filled plush mouse, and some treats from Pet Value. They seemed to really like one of the toy mice which commonly happens, I think there is more catnip in one.

 Then they played in the tunnel which was their other Christmas gift from my parents they got them a week ago. Moo pictured below thinks it is his and pounced and growled at poor Roo who was sitting inside chewing on a mouse pictured below.

Seconds after I took this photo, Moo pounced on Roo making him run out of the tunnel and Moo sat happily inside for awhile after. They are so funny to watch.

I got so many books for Christmas which makes me so happy. Probably because I asked for a lot of books for Christmas this year as gifts. I got the book 750 Knitting Stitches: The Ultimate Knit Stitch Bible by Erika Knight from my mom. I am so excited to learn more stitches and share some in some upcoming blog posts.

 I got Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert from Liam and Every Thing is F*cked: A Book about Hope by Mark Manson from my mom.

Liam also got me The Miracle Equation by Hal Elrod and my sister got me another morning routine book that looks really interesting called Good Morning Good Life by Amy Schmittauer Landing. I am looking forward to reading these and developing my morning and evening routines even more to create a more positive and productive routine.

I also got my planner that says Your Year to Shine on the cover, the fitness insert, and a pack of stickers. I am excited to use this fitness insert, because in the next four months I want to lose more weight and get in shape before the wedding. I was doing really well losing weight and was on track before the holidays, I would like to get back there again.

My mom got me this cute notebook below with sloths on the cover from Indigo. The sloths are so cute, and it will be fun writing my goals down in here.

I loved blogging everyday about what I was up to for Christmas prep for Blogmas. I love this time of the year and it was bittersweet this boxing day because I knew the celebrating and preparations were over. But I was happy it all went so well and I really enjoyed it all and will have these memories. I am looking forward to starting a new year soon and will be getting ready for that. I love New Year's Eve and it feels like a fresh beginning when it is a new year. Time to focus on my goals and be the best me!


I hope that you enjoyed the holidays! Thank you for visiting my blog today and talk to you soon.