Very nice present giving, Jilli!

One day with family survived, two more to go.

My cousin made an extremely racist comment tonight, and then got mad at me for swearing.

Deena, it sounds like you had a very nice evening; I'm so glad. The kids must be getting so big. I need to see pictures of them.

My cousin made an extremely racist comment tonight, and then got mad at me for swearing.

Well, that fucking sucks!

I hung out with another awesome Ryan on this side of the planet, my baby nephew. He is so jovial and happy and adorable!

We gave the older kids the usual Heifer gifts plus multi-cultural type books, which was met with the kind of enthusiasm one might expect from 5 and 7 year old kids. Which is to say, not so much! I am OK with that though.

So tired- but going to New Orleans tomorrow! Whoo!

Yay, New Orleans!

Thanks, Nora. All I said was, "I can't fucking believe you said that.". Normally I wouldn't swear in my mother's house, but it was just a gut response.

Normally I wouldn't swear in my mother's house, but it was just a gut response.

I think it was an appropriate response. But I would also consider a smack to the back of the head appropriate as well.

We had a lovely evening, and I'm absolutely exhausted. The children, especially Kara, are, of course, hopping out of bed every 5 minutes (I can't think sweet thoughts! I need to go to the bathroom! You're not in bed yet--you better get there so Santa can come in!)

I think it was an appropriate response too. Perhaps mote/beam ought to be applied by the person in question.

I'm wearing a cozy new flannel nightie. It's so nice.

Kmart sucked this Christmas. Their website was a nightmare, they left half an order in limbo that I finally canceled last night, so Greg didn't get new jammies, and they sent the wrong jammies for Aidan, but someone else gave him a pair (his school sent home a bunch of presents for him), and the ones Kmart sent were Kara's size and style (the shirt says "I can't hear you over how awesome I am"), so that was an inadvertent win, and I found the toys at etoys.com for the same price or less (previously cheapest at Kmart, less than Wal-Mart, Target, ToysRUs and Amazon.)

All the santa presents are wrapped. We're just trying to make it until the kids are definitely asleep before filling stockings and going to bed.

the shirt says "I can't hear you over how awesome I am"

hee. Perfect for her.

Good night, Deena.

Nora, the weather here is pretty awesome. The rain was supposed to finish up today, and it's nice and warm. And there was the most gorgeous rainbow in the sky this afternoon.

Well, past midnight 'round these parts so wishing all who celebrate a lovely, lovely Christmas and overall, the joys of the season and of the upcoming new year.

I feel kind of lost, not having been around much recently, but I hope that after the new year and the new move there'll be more time for popping in on a regular basis.

Dana talks nice about the weather now...

Merry Christmas, east coasters.