Man, I can’t believe we’re counting down the final days of 2016. And let’s be honest — it’s a good and bad thing. It was a surreal year and I am not sorry to leave behind 2016. At the same time, I’m not super thrilled to usher in 2017 for obvious reasons, but I also refuse to crawl into a hole and hide. Or not live a happy life. After all, that is the American way.
A White Cold Christmas for Me
I’m headed to Minnesota to celebrate a white and cold Christmas with my family. 😀 The white part I actually like because snow and Christmas go hand-in-hand in my mind (but it doesn’t need to blizzard or even actually snow while I’m there). The cold conjures more mixed and less sentimental emotions. It generally doesn’t affect travel too negatively, so yay, but dang … it’s freaking cold!
It’s going to be -40 windchill when I arrive, although it is supposedly going to warm-up to the 20-30s by midweek, which is better … I guess. Still, I’m really excited to see my family, gorge myself on holiday treats and good food and play cards with my Grandpa and Grandma. I’m not sure what it says about me that my Grandpa, who is pushing 90 and has trouble seeing and hearing, can still whump my butt.
A Little Holiday Blogging Break
As usual, I plan to take the remainder of the year off from both A Mindful Migration and Eat Laugh Purr. I will be back briefly on December 27 to participate in the Show Us Your Books Best of 2016 link-up, because you know … books. I definitely want to share my thoughts and want to know what your favorite books from 2016 were too.
Otherwise, you won’t see much of me online, visiting blogs or commenting, or on social media but I’ll be back on January 5, 2017.
Wishing You …
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Feliz Navidad, Happy Kwanzaa, Joyeux Noël and Happy December 25th. May your holidays be magical and full of love, joy, family and good food.
Tanya
Merry Christmas!!! Enjoy the snow. 🙂 I’ll be in San Diego so my Christmas will be more brown than white.
Merry Christmas to you too, Jenn! I did enjoy the snow, sort of! It also rained because Minnesota is weird. 😀 I hope you had a great time in San Diego, where it was much, much warmer!
Damn that is cold! I don’t think I have felt that level of cold in MANY years! Enjoy your holidays and see you back in the new year!
It was so weird, Tonya. It was subzero when I arrived and it rained on Christmas Day. I hope you are having a wonderful time with your Mom!
merry christmas and happy new year!! enjoy the time with your fam!!
it’s COLD here; as in there’s a extreme cold weather alert going on right now and it’s so cold that when you inhale, your boogers immediately freeze!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too! I laughed so hard at your frozen boogers comment because girl, I know exactly what you mean!
That’s a good idea to take off the end of the year. I have my birthday & the hubs birthday in there with the holidays too – such an overload the last 2 weeks of the year.
So hope you have a WONDERFUL Holiday!!!!
& cant wait to see your end of year book post
Happy Birthday Rebecca! And to Ricky too! That is a huge overload for the last two weeks of the year but I bet it’s also a lot of fun too! I hope you have/had wonderful birthday celebrations and a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too!
Safe travels! Bundle up! Merry happy everything!
Thanks, Steph! Merry Christmas to you too!
Happy Holidays, Tanya!! Enjoy your break and the festivities and your family!
Thank you! Happy Holiday to you too!
Merry Christmas Tanya!!!! Safe travels my friend 🙂
Merry Christmas, Mackenzie! I hope Santa treated you well!
Enjoy your break and stay warm! (And thanks for taking a break from your break to join us for SUYB!)
Thanks, Jana! I would never miss the year-end SUYB!!