A glimpse of our Christmas...

It all started with Christmas biscuits making on Christmas Eve. Ely had the idea to prepare cinnamon flavored biscuits for all the poeple (relatives and friends) we had to meet these holidays. In fact it was a good idea and it was fun. We baked loads of biscuits!!! And they turned out very good also! ;)

On Christmas Eve we also had to face a little emergency, because our cat Rufus didn't feel well. He started to have problems with breathing and so we took him to the veterinary clinic in town for a visit. And it wasn't for nothing. It happened that he had some kind of allergic reaction and that provoked the partial closure of the oesophagus...poor Rufy. Moreover they found on the X-ray that he had some kind of a swollen gland between the lungs and the heart. They made exams and it shouldn't be anything to worry about, but we are giving him medicines once a day to see if it could be a lung infection taken when it was a wild kitty and maybe had it passed from her mother. We spent a very bad moment though. It seemed it could be something worse than what it really was.

We woke up with some snow on Christmas day. But I also woke up sick! I felt really bad, probably both for the cold taken the day before and also for the stress caused by the Rufy thing. However we had a planned huge Christmas lunch at Ely's parents with all the relatives and - despite Ely would have wanted to stay at home with me - at the end we went together to the lunch. Ely was very happy to stay with her parents, the food was great and I enjoyed the company of everybody until I fell asleep on the couch because of the fever. I spent all the 26th in bed or on the couch watching movies we rented the day before. All this laziness never happens usually...so despite I was ill, it was nice to be cozy at home, doing nothing. Just resting. Great!

On the 27th I felt much better and we went to visit my grandparents and relatives in Creto. They prepared us a fantastic polenta carbonera for lunch and we spent the day all together. My grandfather wanted to show us some old photos and it was nice to see them together.

This week we were back at work, but this is a short working week because on New Year's Eve we will be closed until probably Jan,6th.

This New Year's Eve we have planned to spend the night - as tradition of these last 2 years - at my best friend Andrea and his wife Monica's place near Brescia. We will be some couples, all taking some kind of food and we will wait the coming of the new year eating, chatting, playing games and having fun together. For a perfect start of a new year full of expectations and plans for me and Ely.

Happy 2010 everybody!