Christmas was pretty great, actually ( Read more... )

I just don't know how the "almost too late to send Christmas cards" day snuck up on me. Once again, my intentions were good, but my throughput totally failed ( Read more... )

We had a really nice Christmas. Catherine had gift overload, to the point where, after a while on Saturday morning, she just didn't want to open any more. (Fortunately, by that time, she only had clothes from us left, and I just took the boxes and opened them later ( Read more... )

Of Catherine experiencing the Christmas decorations (click for bigger versions). We're going to see Santa tonight.

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Why am I never at the mall when an impromptu Hallelujah Chorus breaks out?

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(Okay, yeah, I'm sure there was a whole actual chorale instigating it, but I'm also sure that people with choral experience joined in - I know I would have.)

The Christmas shopping is DONE. I was desperate for something, anything to get for my dad, and my mom suggested something this morning at Costco that I ran right out and got (and a good thing, too, because it was the last one they had ( Read more... )

More from me later.

( Christmas Eve )

To do before Christmas Eve dinner ( Read more... )

Last night, after I put Catherine to bed, I did some pretty good cleaning/decorating while watching Mary Poppins. I unpacked the box of Christmas decorations my Mom gave me that she didn't want any more - while I can't use them all this year, a lot of others I can. I straightened up the living/dining room, swept the tile floor (in anticipation of ( Read more... )

Click for larger images - these little ones really don't do justice to the cuteness of it all.

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