Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

On Christmas Eve I celebrated with one side of my family:  my mom, stepdad, brother, sister-in-law, and 3 year old niece, Hadley.   But today, actual Christmas Day, I'll be celebrating with the other side of my family:  my dad, stepmom, and two younger sisters.  It's kind of opposite of how it was growing up.  I always went to my dad's house the night before Christmas Eve, and then Santa came to my dad's house on Christmas Eve morning.  Then we'd go celebrate that evening with my aunts and uncles and cousins on my dad's side.  Then I'd go home that  night to my mom's, and Santa would come visit me again on Christmas morning there.  But with my niece, my brother and sister-in-law want to be home with her on Christmas morning, so we've switched to Christmas Eve.  This usually works better for my sister who now lives in NYC, because it gives her more time once she gets to Kansas City to get all her gifts wrapped and ready to go.  Later today I'll be posting my final Top 10 of 2015, which is actually the top 10 books I'm waiting for in 2016.  But for now I wanted to do a fun post with lots of GIFs!  So enjoy!  And don't forget to scroll to the very end, where I'll link to all my giveaways I have going on right now, and maybe you'll get a belated Christmas gift for entering!

I hope everyone enjoys their holiday, whether it is time with your family, or just time to relax.

Have to have several from my favorite Christmas movie, Elf.

My 2nd favorite Christmas movie, Christmas Vacation.




A Christmas Story:




And now for just some fun GIFs.

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Christmas is always a nice time for me.  As a school librarian/teacher in the past, it means time off from work.  But it also means getting to see lots of family that I don't get to see at other times of the year.  My sister who lives in NYC flies home for a week or so.  I have a cousin that moved to California in the fall, and so it will be nice to see her and her boyfriend while they're home too.  It also means I have more time for reading!  Here are pictures I took of my niece last night at my mom's house.

And then this morning, my dogs (my kids), got to enjoy their gifts.

 Argyle is my little boy on the left, and Dora is the little girl in the picture on the right.  

Tonight I'll go to my dad's house for Christmas with my sisters.  And then later tonight I plan to go see The Interview.  I wanted to see it before all the fuss, so now I'm glad they're going to go ahead and release it in the theaters.  And because I have really gotten to be obsessed with GIFS, I'll add a few Christmasy GIFS from my favorite movies and tv shows to finish up this post!

This is how I felt when I heard that there would be a Harry Potter marathon starting tomorrow!


And just some other fun GIFS as gifts for all my followers!









This one makes me laugh out loud ever single time:



From the other Christmas movie that must be watched over and over every year: