Merry Christmas!!!!!
Thank you Mechelle

I can almost see wrapping paper flying and screaming kids under your roof as I type this. Enjoy the day !! they all too soon grow up and these precious Christmas mornings will never be the same.
Have a Merry Christmas Randy!
Thank you Dari !! I hope Santa brought you lotsa presents !! (maybe you were on the naughty list ?? *shrugs*)
Glad to hear you need smaller waisted pants, like you said a good thing. Have a great Christmas!!
And a Merry Christmas to you and yours beckster !! I hope today is great and heart-felt day in your humble abode
Much thanks Felici *beams with glee* Here's to hoping your holiday is nothing but joyous today.
Just wanted to stop in and say Merry Christmas!!! I hope its a great one.
Bless you changes and I wish you and your family the best of glad tidings on a most special day
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Well I'm proud to have my daughter for Christmas and we've had a great holiday so far. We started out yesterday visiting my parents as per tradition and stayed for the entire Christmas Eve.
I got through yesterday without major damage. I had one banana up till Christmas Eve dinner plus I took a 3 mile walk earlier in the day. For the dinner and the entire evening, I had 4 lite beers, 1 hotdog bun-sized meatball sandwich, too many handfuls of mixed nuts (weakness of mine when present) and handful of regular chips and I supremely attacked the relish tray for the bulk of my snacking and 2 bowls of salad. No candies or pastries. My Mom always orders 5 Domino's pizzas to accompany her finger food and light cooking, I kept the fast food streak alive !! while the pizza looked yummy, I just couldn't bring myself to eat it.
Today will be a bit more challenging

Again, tradition lives on with me cooking a Christmas breakfast only I'm down-scaling it this year to english muffins, ready serve bacon (love the small calorie count on those

) and home fries. I'm really not a breakfast eater and I'm sure I can get out of this in the 400 cal range - maybe.
Today we have a mid-afternoon Christmas dinner back at my parents house and we'll have to see what transpires there menu-wise, probably roast beef and the fixin's. Mom has gotten away from the traditional Bakala fish bucket-soaked in Marinara sauce for 2 days as our Italian specialty stores have all closed up a decade ago and finding the cod has become next to impossible.
This has been a great Christmas clothes-wise for me

Everything has been XL (and fit !!) but I will have to return some jeans that were 42's and too big to keep even if a 40 is a bit snug yet - gotta think ahead, right ?? I really love the fleece orange zip up my daughter got me and I can't wait to wear it walking.
Welp, time to get busy in the kitchen and I hope you all have a joyous and warm Christmas !!