Christmas is over. It was... "different" this year. Oh, I had fun, and I got a few thoughtful and useful gifts. But this was the first Christmas since my parents separated. Dad wasn't there with us at my aunt's house on Christmas eve. He wasn't with us Christmas morning. And my sibs and I had to trek over to see HIM separately at my grandmother's ( Read more... )

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Um, wow, so that was Christmas, huh? Neat ( Read more... )

What a great story - this will warm any Scrooge's heart!

A Special Santa

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It's always exciting to see what knowledge my family has gleaned about my interests over the year, resulting in their ideas of "good gifts" for Brian ( Read more... )

Patrick invited me to sing with his church choir at their Christmas Eve services tonight (since they were running short on basses), so after the big to-do with mom's side of the family (breakfast for dinner = TASTY, a few presents - everyone bought me huge-ass sweaters :P), I drove to the church to sing with the choir. It was a nice way to end the ( Read more... )