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Early Christmas

We enjoyed an early Christmas with my family last night.  It was a merry occasion involving lots of presents and Chinese food (our traditional Christmas Eve dinner).  A special guest graced us with his presence.  His visit inpired some strong feelings among the younger ones in our group.  I was completely surprised and enchanted by his appearance.  It was like being a kid again!  A happy kid.  Like the little boy in the last two pictures.

Though these images of terror suggest otherwise, we all really did have a grand old time. 

San Francisco

View of the wharf from the bay.

A famous bridge

Fisherman's Wharf

 

I found these pictures from our 2009 San Francisco trip.   On this trip we took a boat tour of the bay, visited the Golden Gate Bridge, saw Wicked at The Orpheum, walked a lot, ate some good food,  and most memorably, we found out this little mister would be joining our family.   What a shock! and relief to find out I didn't have a mysteriously long-lasting stomach bug.

 

All San Francisco shots were enhanced using this tiltshift tool.

Zombie

BRAINS!

Gingerbread House - A New Old Tradition

Every year at Christmas, when we were little, my mom baked and decorated a gingerbread house for me and my brother.  It's a fun tradition that I'm glad we are carrying on for our children.

 

Disclaimer:  Wilton baked the gingerbread.  My mom bought the kit.

Kitty Door

 Where'd they go?

Hurry up friends!  I want to play! 

This is Oliver sitting next to the new kitty door to our garage.  He is waiting for the cats to finish eating and come back inside.  In the olden days, before the cat door, he would "play" with the cats while they were eating.  Sometimes he would even join the feasting.  I can say for myself and the cats, we love the new cat door.  I especially love not having to sweep up cat kibble three times a day. 

 

Unsupervised...Again

 

Ricky let me sleep in this morning.  It was heavenly.  The boys had a bit of excitement while I was sleeping. I will let Ricky's latest facebook status tell the story:

"So, I must need to supervise my son better. He came out of my bedroom with my cell phone. Then it started ringing, so I answered it: "Hello?" "Hello, this is Sharon from the Ridgecrest Police Department."

"I'm sorry, did my baby call 911?"

"Yes."
 

"I'm sorry, there's nothing wrong..."

No more cell phones for Oliver."

I hope Ollie wasn't calling to tattle on his neglectful parents.

 

My happy boy

 
 
 

St. Nicholas Day

 

St. Nicholas brought us the best treats. 

 

Oliver got excited about the marzipan kartofelln and so did I!

Jab Jab

Sometimes, the little one sleeps in our bed.  This morning I woke up to him pulling my eyelids open and jabbing me in the eye with his fingers.  It was quite the wake up call.  Did you know that everything goes black and that it takes a few seconds for the blackness to go away after being jabbed in the eye?   

I'm grateful to my son for teaching me firsthand the results of a jab to the eye, because sometimes I wonder what would happen, if in self defense I jabbed someone in the eyes.  Now I know that it's a short-lived but effective manuever.  It affords one enough time to flee or inflict more damage.  Maybe I watch too many crime shows, but from time to time I imagine scenarios where I will need to have a self defense/offensive plan in place.  Do other people do this or am I just weird?   I'm okay with being weird.  It's good to be prepared.  

All I want for Christmas...

 

Glitter is so pretty.