Pleasantly snowed in

[amalnahurriyeh]

The Nahurriyeh household is covered with holiday detritus. All around the living room, my son's arranged his new toys in piles: there the plastic guitar, there his extremely large pile of small plastic animals, there the box for Mommy's new slow-cooker, with an eye-hole cut so it can be a robot costume. The Christmas tree, in all its fiberoptic

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[wendelah1]

I must be weird because I didn't get the point of "Goodnight Room" at all. I didn't even finish it. What am I missing here?

I liked the real book and so did James when he was a baby. Maybe that's the problem?

[amalnahurriyeh]

I actually think that familiarity helps for me--I'm still in the phase where I have it memorized from reading it so much. What I love about it is how all of the familiar figures are transformed and made eerily other in the course of the story: they are not merely a balloon, a pair of kittens, a painting on a wall, but they are a part of something, a big and vaguely sinister system. I also love stories that are about the throwing off of childish things, and that's what the bunny does in the end. For me, the beauty's in the transfiguration of the perfectly peaceful world of the book into the slightly-menacing world of the story, and how all of a sudden the world opens up around it.

[wendelah1]

Stories about loss of innocence? I like those, too, sometimes.

I edited the rest of the content out. Sorry. You still have it in an email.

That blizzard looks scary. Stay warm and stay dry. I'm glad you had a good Christmas.<3

Soup sounds wonderful.

[namarie24]

Isk keeps asking where Santa Claus is, and announcing that it's Christmas, as if he can conjure it back just through desire.

Hee and aww. I know the feeling, Isk! I love Christmas so much that it's always hard to see it go.

Glad you guys had a good one! Stay warm and safe.

[amalnahurriyeh]

Hope you had a good Christmas too! We've stayed pleasantly indoors all day. It was a good decision. *g*

[estella_c]

Your description of Christmas comfort is...comforting, and I'm glad to hear someone northeast of us isn't shivering for hours on a subway. This end of Pennsylvania has dodged the bullet. Not typical of us at all.

The voyeur cat: he's okay? I just want everyone to be okay.

I wish Isk and my grandnephew could have a playdate. Aiden received a small teak mama elephant and baby (thrift shop!), which everyone his age should have to decorate the bedroom. He's quite good at sharing.

Will read "Goodnight Room." Also make soup at some future point. Oh, gave my sister chocolate-covered pomegranate seeds from TJ.

[amalnahurriyeh]

The voyeur cat is sitting on a giant pile of snow staring into the house as we speak. I kept going out every hour and half or so all night yesterday to dig her house out. Overnight she nearly got snowed in, but when I got up there was a big cat-shaped hole right in front of the box.

It was very weird how coastal this storm was. Amazing how much it's screwed everything else. My roommate's stuck in Missouri until Wednesday.

Soup was made here! Potato leek. In the new slow-cooker. I added the leftover chipotle cream from Christmas, and it was delicious.

[mack_the_spoon]

Oh, I loooove the Dollhouse fic. You're right, interspersing it with the Maya Angelou poem just makes it all the more perfect.

Merry (belated) Christmas!

[amalnahurriyeh]

Merry Christmas to you too!

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