Wow! It sure has been a while eh?
Things have been a bit wild around here, back in September The Llama
Pappa started his new job (YAY!) but his training/work schedule was
all over the place and it was hard for The Llama to adjust. Then,
just when everything started to even out, the holidays arrived. We
usually try to take Thanksgiving easy, we get a Tofurkey or Quorn
roast, make homemade stuffing and mushroom gravy, cranberry orange
relish, and sweet potato fries and that’s about it (this year we
got a Tofurkey roast that came with its own gravy, but it wasn't
nearly as good as home made). We live too far from family to be able
to visit, but my parents came down to visit for a couple of days the
week before and that was really nice. And then of course, we had to
watch the parade. We don't do a lot of TV, so The Llama didn't
recognize a lot of the pop culture stuff, but he really enjoyed the
dance numbers, and the big balloons.
Because The Llama Pappa was so new at
his job we knew he wouldn't be able to get time off to go visit
family for Christmas, but then one of his coworkers took some
vacation time at the beginning of December, so The Llama Pappa
covered for her. The best part was that her schedule was set up so
that three were three very long days but then The Llama Pappa would
end up with four days off in a row! It was kind of grueling while he
worked because they were such long days, but we were able to get back
up north to visit our families, which was really awesome. Everybody
spoiled The Llama rotten of course, he was the star of the show! But
he had a great time, and handled the trip and visiting really well
and made a new friend with my parent's Basset hound, Sam. But I do
have to admit that we were all very glad to get home afterwords.
I think my favorite part of this
Christmas was taking The Llama out on a ride to see all the lights,
he loved it! He got especially excited whenever anybody had a train
in their yard, it was so cute! And we started a new holiday
tradition: home made Christmas Pizza! (The Llama Pappa and I were
talking and we thought it was rather silly to have another big feast
right after Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is pretty much all about the
food, (and parade) but for us Christmas is about spending time with
family and friends, which is kind of hard to do when you are stuck in
the kitchen all day.) Then New years was right around the corner, but
we didn't really do anything special for that, besides go to bed
early, because we are old fuddy duddies.
And now we are finally starting to come
back to some semblance of normal. The Llama Pappa finished training
before the holidays hit, and now he has a regular schedule, so The
Llama and I can get back into a routine. The weather has been quite
frigid here.
We got a little snow so I got to take
The Llama out to play, whereupon we learned that The Llama doesn't
really like snow all that much. Especially walking in it or when it
gets on his mittens.
He was very cute, but I guess we'll
just stick to our usual walks around the neighborhood. The last week
or so it has been too cold and windy to go out (and I was a bit
worried about the people who never clear their sidewalks), but now
that it has warmed up a bit and we are back to our route! It almost
felt springlike the other day with the snow starting to melt and the birds
all out and singing!
{Edit}
this was written a few days ago, and sat waiting for me to get around to adding pictures. Since then the snow has returned and it is once again cold and dreary :(
