Tuesday Treasures

My "son" Baxter.

Glamour?

As you know I love fashion, clothes, shoes, purses etc and hate crocs, Glamour listed 2009's What to Love and What to Leave behind..... Look what they said to leave behind.

Leave it: Crocs

Much like their trendy-yet-ugly predecessors, Uggs, the rubber moccasins look silly on anyone over age five. Tuck them into the back of your closet and pull them out only when gardening.

I couldn't agree more!

Tuesday Treasure: Crocs

Why do people wear these?

Happy New Year

Happy New Year 2009 to all our friends and family! We hope you have a great new year.

Merry Christmas

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through my mom's house, every creature was stirring except for a mouse.

At my home, our stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes Baxter would not eat them there!

When we woke a fun day was had by all, when the P.A.M.'s get together it is such a ball!

Merry Christmas!

My Family

After a roller coaster year of family ups and downs, Christmas ended on a positive note. Our families (Petriello/Ancewicz/Morgans) have created a new family tradition! We will celebrate Christmas Eve together just our three families. (Which makes eleven people and eight pets!) We are so glad of the events leading up to Christmas Eve because this was by far the best holiday we have ever had. The 'old man' even played board games..... (wow that was a first.) We have divided up all the other holidays since Nicole and I have 'big girl houses' now! LOL Our parents seemed at peace with our new holiday plans, which makes our families so much happier.
We started the evening with great food, tons of laughs and some cute presents for the Nicole's kids. After the little ones were all nestled on their air mattresses, the grown ups cracked open the wine and board games. We have never laughed that hard! The guys beat us at Buzz Word, but the ladies knew paybacks will come on Christmas Day! My family honored my tradition of not eating meat on Wednesdays by waiting until midnight to eat dinner. We feasted on riceballs, veal saltimbocca, sausage-peppers-onions and antipasto then cheesecakes and Italian pastries. Finally at 2am we fell asleep with dreams of new foods and gifts for the morning.
Christmas morning was like no other, since Nicole's family stayed at mom and dad's we got to see first hand a Christmas Day with the kids. Wow I now Know why Jay and I have just Baxter! The screaming and yelling over their great gifts were deafening. But it was great! As promised we beat the guys during game time and even Baxter had some cool gifts to open.