It's back to work day....

Well, for the most part the Christmas holiday is over (boo-hoo) and things are slowly getting back to as normal as normal can be at my house. The grandkids are at their father's now but will be back here on New Years Eve for a couple more days then we will take them home to start back to school. We had a great time at my MIL's on Christmas Eve--good food too thanks to my SIL's hard work, oh and my DH making his delicious chicken & noodles. Christmas morning was really nice with our grandchildren--I think they really liked their presents from Santa! Of course, Ashley is only 9 mos old, so she wasn't into the present opening thing..but liked her new push toy that Grandpa made for her---it had bells inside, and she liked looking at all the lights on the tree. The only thing that would have made the day better was if my son from Arizona had been home with his daughter and wife, but alas, they couldn't make it this year...no one could afford the ticket prices...and it's warmer in Tucson!! My stepson, who we haven't heard from in three years decided to make an appearance Christmas Eve at my MIL--no one was quite sure how to react---however, my DH had spoke to him earlier that day and told him it wouldn't be a good idea to show up--but as usual, he didn't listen. Only a couple people talked to him and I grinned a beared it for my DH sake....you see my SS was/is (who knows) an alcoholic and addicted to all drugs--and at 35 has no direction at all!! We have attempted to get him straight for years and each time, he has more or less told his dad to F off, so we wrote him off...now all of a sudden he's shown up again, but I honestly don't want to be around him anymore due to the way he has treated his dad all these years and I still don't trust him. My DH is willing to at least talk to him, but even he's leary of getting too close and his sister and my son want nothing to do with him! He's just not been good to any of our family...he's crapped on everyone and really ticked alot of them off by his actions...so I'll just stand on the side lines and see what comes next. He lives with his mother, so I doubt we hear or see much of him in the near future, as they are 2.5 hours away from here...thank God!! Other than that the holiday was busy but great.
Now I go tomorrow to do Christmas with my mom and spend the day there...but today, it was back to work as usual....the holidays just don't last at all, do they?
I do have some cute pictures of our little granddaughter to scrap and I'm hoping to get some Christmas pics from my DIL of my 3.5 yr old granddaughter in Arizona, but that is probably not going to happen since she doesn't like me scrapping her daughter (long story and I won't go there right now). I still have pics of the kids here though so I have some things to do.
Well, I better get back to work--it's what I'm getting paid to do so will post more later.