We didn’t stay with my sister's family the night before Thanksgiving, the way we usually do for all of the holidays when we get together at Mom and Dad's. Heather worked Wednesday night so we drove down on Thanksgiving Day. It was a nice visit, with the usual family members present: Mom and Dad, Karen and her family, Mike, Dave and Josh, Uncles Richard and Herbert, and our little family. Other family members dropped in off and on later in the day. Mike and Karen did pretty much all the cooking this year. It did go over pretty well, but for about two seconds, I missed cooking and cleaning, and then, I just relaxed and enjoyed a relaxing visit. We thought we might stay at Deb and Tom's house Thursday night, but their whole family went to bed early so that they could go out for the Black Friday deals. Ultimately, we drove back home on Thursday, but in reality, by the time we got home, it was about 1 a.m. on Friday.
Dave and Josh stopped in at the house on Friday on their way back up to the Hibbing area. They stayed with us here until this afternoon. We did a little Christmas shopping and I put up some of the Christmas lights outside. Then, Josh and Dave headed home. We watched 'Mr. Holland's Opus' tonight after Gabriel finally went to bed around midnight.
We are about 90 percent finished with our Christmas shopping. In reality, we started shopping for Christmas this summer. We usually start our shopping with the after-Christmas sales and then keep our eyes open all year long. We just want to be finished before the madness begins in the stores. Then, we can focus on the really important facets of the holiday season, and yes, the true meaning of the Christmas season. It is nice to not have to worry about finishing the Christmas shopping. There are two big projects we have left to finish before I can feel that we are truly ready for Christmas. We have to put up the indoor decorations and the Christmas tree. The other task is to write our Christmas ramblings and add in pictures of our boys and the zoo. It usually turns out to be a two or three page letter, but if we didn’t insert so many pictures, I think it would fit on one page. We avoid the 'brag letter' aspects as much as we can. It isn’t supposed to be about boasting of accomplishments, but an overview of what has changed this year. Without giving up too much, the main three things that changed most in my life are that our son, Jericho, was born, that I earned my management degree, and that I got promoted to a position with some responsibility for other techs, scheduling, and I can put that on my resume some day. I do love working for this company, though, so that may just not be necessary for a very long time... “God willing and the creek don’t rise.” That bad grammar would bother me, but I put the quotation marks around it. It’s a quote, so I can tolerate a bit of misguided grammar on the blog, just this one time. =)
Enough rambling for one night, I would say. Keep smiling and get to bed. It's late and past your bedtime, and mine. G'night.
Dave and Josh stopped in at the house on Friday on their way back up to the Hibbing area. They stayed with us here until this afternoon. We did a little Christmas shopping and I put up some of the Christmas lights outside. Then, Josh and Dave headed home. We watched 'Mr. Holland's Opus' tonight after Gabriel finally went to bed around midnight.
We are about 90 percent finished with our Christmas shopping. In reality, we started shopping for Christmas this summer. We usually start our shopping with the after-Christmas sales and then keep our eyes open all year long. We just want to be finished before the madness begins in the stores. Then, we can focus on the really important facets of the holiday season, and yes, the true meaning of the Christmas season. It is nice to not have to worry about finishing the Christmas shopping. There are two big projects we have left to finish before I can feel that we are truly ready for Christmas. We have to put up the indoor decorations and the Christmas tree. The other task is to write our Christmas ramblings and add in pictures of our boys and the zoo. It usually turns out to be a two or three page letter, but if we didn’t insert so many pictures, I think it would fit on one page. We avoid the 'brag letter' aspects as much as we can. It isn’t supposed to be about boasting of accomplishments, but an overview of what has changed this year. Without giving up too much, the main three things that changed most in my life are that our son, Jericho, was born, that I earned my management degree, and that I got promoted to a position with some responsibility for other techs, scheduling, and I can put that on my resume some day. I do love working for this company, though, so that may just not be necessary for a very long time... “God willing and the creek don’t rise.” That bad grammar would bother me, but I put the quotation marks around it. It’s a quote, so I can tolerate a bit of misguided grammar on the blog, just this one time. =)
Enough rambling for one night, I would say. Keep smiling and get to bed. It's late and past your bedtime, and mine. G'night.
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