Happy Ho Ho Day
Christmas morn was chill just like every year. Not cold, I mean relaxing... it was actually quite warm.
My parents bought me a sewing machine, which I'm pretty pumped about. And the Little Mermaid Special addition, which (for those who don't know) is my favourite Disney movie, verging on my favourite movie of all time. Movie related wise, my brother gave me 2 Corpse Bride shot glasses and an awesome ceramic Jack Skellington... needless to say I was completely blown away by this. This marks the first year my brother has actually thought aboput the gifts before buying for the family. He also gave me a wooden letter "O" just so he could say, "Here Nad, I bought you a vowel." Dork.
There was a tiny box under the tree for me from my me taunte Aline which on the card in nice writing said "Merry Christmas Nadia" and below it in chicken-scratch was scribbled "This is special". I opened it to find a charm braclet, minus the charms. I really didn't think anything of it other than it was a nice braclet... after 10 minutes of trying to figure out the cryptic "this is special" message my mother realized what it was: it was my grandmaman's braclet. She wore it everywhere, all the time, until she became really sick and it wouldn't fit on her wrist. I'm still kind of in shock, you have to understand: my grandmother had 9 children, those children had 2-5 children each, then about half of those children have 2 children each, so giving me this bracelet is perplexing when there are so many other people it could have gone to. It could be the fact that I'm the only one in my age group (aside from my brother); technically my brother and I are the youngest grandchildren.
I'm just in awe of a gift so full of meaning. In fact, I'm in awe of all of the meaningful gifts.
I also went to my cousin's house today for christmas dinner. My cousin's kids are so cute. I'm going to leave you with the 2 highlight quotes of my evening from my cousin's son Connor, who is 3.
While running around in the basement playing red light/green light "I have a penis, but I'm wearing underwear."
While going down the stairs crawling backwards "This is so penis-y!"
My parents bought me a sewing machine, which I'm pretty pumped about. And the Little Mermaid Special addition, which (for those who don't know) is my favourite Disney movie, verging on my favourite movie of all time. Movie related wise, my brother gave me 2 Corpse Bride shot glasses and an awesome ceramic Jack Skellington... needless to say I was completely blown away by this. This marks the first year my brother has actually thought aboput the gifts before buying for the family. He also gave me a wooden letter "O" just so he could say, "Here Nad, I bought you a vowel." Dork.
There was a tiny box under the tree for me from my me taunte Aline which on the card in nice writing said "Merry Christmas Nadia" and below it in chicken-scratch was scribbled "This is special". I opened it to find a charm braclet, minus the charms. I really didn't think anything of it other than it was a nice braclet... after 10 minutes of trying to figure out the cryptic "this is special" message my mother realized what it was: it was my grandmaman's braclet. She wore it everywhere, all the time, until she became really sick and it wouldn't fit on her wrist. I'm still kind of in shock, you have to understand: my grandmother had 9 children, those children had 2-5 children each, then about half of those children have 2 children each, so giving me this bracelet is perplexing when there are so many other people it could have gone to. It could be the fact that I'm the only one in my age group (aside from my brother); technically my brother and I are the youngest grandchildren.
I'm just in awe of a gift so full of meaning. In fact, I'm in awe of all of the meaningful gifts.
I also went to my cousin's house today for christmas dinner. My cousin's kids are so cute. I'm going to leave you with the 2 highlight quotes of my evening from my cousin's son Connor, who is 3.
While running around in the basement playing red light/green light "I have a penis, but I'm wearing underwear."
While going down the stairs crawling backwards "This is so penis-y!"