Hello Monday and Hello Christmas Week 2025! (December 29, 2025)

 

Hi Friends and Happy Monday!  How was your Christmas if you celebrated?  I am here with Sarah and today I am going back to Tuesday night and working my way forward...capturing our Christmas Week

 

Here is what it looked like....

 

Tuesday Night

 

Rob headed to dinner and then the Bruins game with Zach, Marshall and Tom- Christmas Present for the boys!  

I took a jacuzzi bath for the first time in a long time and enjoyed watching the snow lightly fall...it was so cozy and warm and a great way to decompress after a pretty brutal year- ha!

 

 When Diana got back from the WHS Hockey Game, she and Eva came to snuggle with me and we watched the last two episodes of the Taylor Swift documentary- SO GOOD- I want to watch the whole thing again!

 

 

 Wednesday

 

Christmas Eve!  

 

The girls and I headed out first thing to meet up with the Fournier girls for breakfast and our gift exchange...morning after the snow

 The only pic I snagged a breakfast #fail

 

 

 When we got home, I took out Remi and snapped a few pics because even I had to admit that it was very pretty

 

 

 Then I got cooking

 

The Lobster Risotto

 I also made crabbies, prepped the shrimp cocktail, made a dip and a Christmas Pull Apart Bread appetizer.  Then I made asparagus and a salad.  My mom made the famous Christmas Eve pasta.

 

We left for church a little before 3...even though mass didn't start until 4...we needed to reserve a bench for our fam

 

My girls!

 

 

 Our beautiful church AND Monsignor Anthony came back to say mass- I was so excited! :)

 

 

 On the way home, I snapped a pic of our very pretty town common

 

 

Then it was time to celebrate with all the fish!  We had a house full...it was a different year and I loved it...the big kids came this year to celebrate instead of Christmas morning and I really enjoyed it...

 

 

 

 

 

A Gift we saved for this special night :)

 

 

 

Christmas Gift for the Girls Again- Dancing with the Stars!

We had such a great night!

 

Thursday

 

Merry Christmas!

 

 

It was a nice slow start....quiet morning....the girls opened their one gift from Santa...Ariana Grande tickets!

 

 

 

 Then we enjoyed breakfast together with Papa- I made a berry croissant breakfast bake that we all loved and agreed to make for Easter again!

 

 and we enjoyed some of the Andy Williams Christmas Special and White Christmas

 

 Then while Papa went to get ready, the four of us and Remi hit the Rail Trail for a Christmas Morning walk!  It was beautiful...and very slippery...I fell at one point...Eva fell at one point too...we had some laughs...it was great :)

 

 

 

 

 

Then it was time to head home and get ready to hit the road!  

 

We got to Mimi and Papa's around 12:30 and enjoyed a quiet and delicious Christmas Day...Mimi always outdoes herself with an elegant meal

 

 

 

 We headed home to crash around 5 and Diana was the only one to head out again...she enjoyed Christmas Night at the Fourniers...we went to bed!  The post-Christmas exhaustion is real my friends

 

Friday

 

I was up bright and early and headed straight to heated yoga...felt so good!

 

 

 When I got home, I showered....purged some clothes for donations and then got some work done.

 

For lunch, I threw together another "supermodel snack"- delish!

and took Eva to her doctor's appointment- grateful for our healthy girl!

 When we got back, I got some more work done.

 

That night, Rob had a gig...Diana headed to the WHS Hockey Game with Friends and Eva did too...so just Mama and Remi were home and hunkering down.  I watched some 20/20 but feel asleep pretty early...so exciting right?  Ha!

 

Saturday

 

It had snowed again overnight so Rob got up to clean us up outside.  I got some organizing and blogging done while enjoying my tea.

 

Then Diana and I hit the road and headed to Carbonneau's Bridal and Formal in Worcester MA- took us a little over an hour-not bad especially since it had snowed overnight!

 

We were going prom dress shopping- we wanted to start early- take our time and the plan was not even find her dress this day but guess what?  WYKYK...she found the dress- spectacular- or as I was saying "outstanding" for Senior Prom....here are a few runner ups...it was hard to decide!

 

 We highly recommend Carbonneaus in Worcester- wonderful selection -beautiful store and stellar service- they took such great care of us!

 

After that, we took a Christmas gift card and enjoyed a nice lunch together...Diana said "this is such a great day!" I couldn't agree more :)

 

 

 

 Then we headed home.  I started watching a series that Cass recommended on Netflix called "The C Word" with Laura Linney- it is really good!  I got sucked in!

 

 

That night, Rob had a gig, Diana headed to the hockey game and I did too with Eva and her bestie.  Although Windham lost to Salem, it was what we call here in New England "a nail bita"- very exciting game to watch.

 

 

Sunday

 

I was up bright and early....made my tea..headed to mass and then the gym. Met up with my Lea and we agreed to do mass and the gym together on Sundays- woohoo!

 

When I got home, we all got working together to de-Christmas and clean up.  Diana convinced us to keep up the family room tree just with the lights on for some extra coziness this winter :)

 

I then did the meal planning and went grocery shopping.  Diana headed to work and Eva and Rob headed to the last WHS hockey game of the weekend.

 

Last night, I made chicken enchilada soup (enjoyed mine with these protein chips ftw!)

 

 and we watched some more of "The C Word." I think Rob is sucked in now too

 

 BTW this is a GREAT snack...cure for your sweet tooth while getting in an awesome punch of protein!

 

 

What were you all up to? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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