Christmas with Mimi

Today we celebrated Christmas with Mimi. She flies home to Tennessee tomorrow to spend Christmas there. It was a truly amazing day. Once we were all out of bed, we went ahead and opened gifts (the ones to each other- all other gifts will wait until actual Christmas) as if it were Christmas morning. Pat loved her calendar from us- it was filled with pictures of our princess. We all got great gifts. Gwyneth got an alphabet centipede and a doll from her Mimi and Papaw. Rich and I, among other things, both got actual cross necklace pendants that had been blessed by the Pope. (Pat bought them when she visited the Vatican a few years ago.) After gifts, Rich, Gwyneth and Pat went to the flea market while I cooked us a great meal. Our spread included HoneyBaked Ham, stuffing, augratin potatoes, green bean casserole, corn, rolls and hot apple pie with ice cream. Wowzers. Needless to say we were absolutely STUFFED. We then just relaxed the rest of the day. Gwyneth was very happy to have a Christmas celebration with Mimi!!!