Our friend is the guy in front in the goggles. He normally spends New Year’s Eve with us, but this year he stayed over on Sunday night instead. The other guy is t.c., who happened to call on the phone. I teased him, “Yeah, we’re having a sleepover. You should come too.” His parents […]
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That’s smiling nice for ya. She smiled nice. Okay, better. He also does his drunken communion thing, “Blud of Chrisst, shad fer ya.” It’s real uplifting. Okay, over the next couple hours the gift pile GREW. And there was a feast. Back in the day, we chose an alternate date for our family Christmas party
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For many years now, we have spent Christmas Day with Mark and Barb and Jay’s parents. It’s a very laid back good time, gifts for the children, lots to eat. That’s Barb there, quite the fabulous cook. Besides the cooking, she’s –well, I’ve told Mark best thing he ever did was marry her. The usual rowdies
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This is from the afternoon before. This kid is SO EXCITED she’s been driving me nuts for three days. This one is much more chill. Waiting for church–we were early because the guys had to usher. She’s buried in the closet, but she’s happy there. Finally we could go upstairs. It was beautiful, Christmas story,
We headed out at supper time, made it to Wisconsin in time, even with traffic. This very grown up person was there. I reminded her about how three years ago I bought her wedding Barbies for Christmas. We laughed. “I still have all those.” There’s My Sweetie singing. He’s the one in the front in
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There was a lot of action in the seats. There’s b.g. He was so excited, sang his little heart out. There were cookies and punch in a properly sunny room with miniature furniture. Just like preschool is supposed to be. Then we had lunch at McDonald’s and it was a great day. b.g.? You did
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Okay, this was last night, Lydia working on math surrounded by gingerbread. She has a math tutor this year, well worth the money. This lovely woman, a real estate client, an engineer, agreed to tutor her, two 45 minute sessions a week. It’s helping tremendously. These were taken in church this morning. Lydia was the
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Okay, this year as they took over, rolling and cutting cookies adeptly, advising p.j. not to stamp out cookies in the middle, to go around the edges and get the most out of the dough, I realized this: They can do this all by themselves. Holy crap. Life skills. I know adults who have no
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We made these cookies today, also quick. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler, dump in a box of Ritz Bitz with peanut butter filling, and stir. Then dump them out on waxed paper, pick them apart with a fork, and sprinkle. We also took this opportunity to go watch James play basketball. This ONE
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