School's out, I'm on vacation til January, and the family is all in town. Start the holidays!!!
Joe and Celeste drove up from Kentucky on Tuesday. Long drive, but safe trip though. They've done birthdays with his mom's fam, and they're doing Christmas stuff with her mom's fam tomorrow. They're meeting up with us on the afternoon of Christmas day. This is their first year trying to balance so many houses, so I'm sure it'll be a challenge.
We have the shared-holiday down to a science though. Since the actual holiday is always a jumble of super-hectic activity, we just do Christmas early. Regardless of the date on the calendar, it's good family time without all the time constraints.
Missy and the kids started Friday night by baking and decorating a whole rack of cookies. These were FoodChannel quality cookies, too. Win-me-ten-thousand-dollars cookies.
The adventure didn't stop when the cookies were finished. Sam and her bf got in a car wreck late that night. They're both OK, he got a couple stitches and they both got a whole rack of bruises, but nothing permanent. I did have the pleasure of answering that 1am phone call telling me she was in a car wreck. We spent the whole night in the ER, but sadly I missed watching when they dug this piece of glass out of his face:
Saturday was still fun, but thankfully with a lot less excitement. We had reallllly tasty dinner down in Alexandria at Columbia Firehouse. It's a top-notch restaurant built into what used to be a for-real fire station. The original building dates from 1883, and it's still got the classic feel to it.
After dinner, we went across the river to the National Harbor for a bit. They've got a lot of holiday stuff to check out: light shows, giant Christmas trees, dancing fountains... it's all really fun freebie stuff. Not enough to fill an entire evening, or to do year-after-year, but definitely worth the trip at least once. (We didn't do the ICE! displays, bc $30 each, times the size of my crew, gets a bit expensive. Just didn't seem worth the reward.)
Once we finished all the running around, we had a late night gift exchange back at the house. Everybody in the fam really gets into gift-giving; finding the right present to deliver a big smile. As a result, I think we all made out like bandits. :)
Over the coming days, we've got a whole rack of Christmases to celebrate. We'll be running around the DC area doing the holidays with all the different branches of a big ol' family tree.
Have a safe and happy holiday!
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Bloons, Christmatized.
The best part about the 12 Holes of Christmas (besides the Tiger Woods jokes) is being able to color your balls.
Pam says have a classy Christmas.
Jess sent in the 1811 version of the Urban Dictionary. Captain Grose's "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue." I'm happy that sort of buckish language has progressed, bc I'd have a heckuva a time not giggling whenever I mention my twiddle-diddles.
The classic: Drowning Pool "Bodies (Let the Bodies Hit the Floor)"
The remix: TouchCat gives us Lolita the Parrot rocking a spot-on cover.
Um, I'm not sure how Gina's doing things in TX, but I'm not up for much of mobile-anything in the back of a white van.
Everything but secks.
Simple and accurate. Worst part is, I don't even offer one. Missy has to deal with me in fractions.
I've had this in my inbox for a while, and I'm not sure exactly why I think it's so awesome. Maybe she reminds me of someone. Maybe it's just really cool. Maybe this is how Penthouse Forums appear in my head.
Closing this week with my all time favorite Christmas image. To me, nothing says Christmas more than watching the presents open their children by the tree.
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