Children have never been more self-correcting as they've been these past few weeks: "Whoops. I mean, 'Neve, will you please stop touching me? Thank you, sister.'", as they envision Santa with his all-knowing snow globe and check list.
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Terry has been a little prickly lately. (Imagine emails sent to church staff, in regards to him doing design work for the annual Christmas program, with phrases like "shi**ing this stuff out" and "I hope you're blessed with 100 snotty children" sprinkled throughout the exchange... among other delightful 'tis-the-season-to-say-something-you'll-regret-later ditties.)
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The weather outside has been quite frightful. Unfortunately, during school hours, this translates as 10 3 year olds afflicted with serious cases of confirmed cabin fever. The flip side to this, however, is that going home to a fire that's so delightful is even more delightful than ever before. (Working has made home the ultimate retreat once more.)
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Family is coming in from out of town this week too. I can't wait to see my brother and cousins! This will yield lots and lots of laughs (hopefully no tears) and food. Much food.
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I listen to this song 73 times a day:
While it all began as a Dera-guilty-holiday-pleasure, it has soon become a Fiona-and-Neve-shamelessly-play-it-over-and-over-pleasure. While your child is reenacting the nativity in a church play, my children are putting on "shows" in their bedroom with this song as a soundtrack, with Fiona playing the part of George Michael jumping on the bed. Luckily, this has cured any remaining Wham! inclinations I once had.
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I can't say for sure, but I have a hunch that there will be little to no blogging before the new year, so I will wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah and such. Love to my peeps.
5 comments:
For a second I thought George Michael was wearing a coonskin cap - nope - just his awesome eighties hair-itude.
Happy Ho Ho to you and yours and especially for the evil church people. Sounds like they need it.
Your big tree is just beautiful and somehow makes your house looks bigger. I guess it's the magic of Christmas!
ML
Merry Christmas! Hope it's a blessed one.
Your house is gorgeous by the way.
Miss you guys. Have a great one
I thought I left a comment a long time ago but I guess I just read this post and was like, "aww i like Dera her house is cute those lights around the bottom of her tree are cute i think our walls might be painted the same color of green" all rambling-like in my head without actually typing any of it out. Merry Christmas Dera. I'm so glad I got to know you this year!
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