Today we’re all off, sort of. Lori has the day off from work and the boys are off school, yet we’re up at 5:30 to get ready to go to Denver. Today Lori and her Mom have a couple assisted living places they’re checking out while Ty has a dermatologist appointment and then both boys are getting haircuts. Mojo goes to doggie daycare at 8 this morning and then we need to drop Jag’s birth certificate and copies of Lori’s and my passport at school for his China Visa. They sprung this on us yesterday, ugh.
Last night our friend Lisa who has two little girls and lives in the middle of nowhere east of Pueblo on a cattle ranch with her husband Eddie, called to say our package arrived. The Fed Ex man left it at the door when they were all out feeding the cattle. Lisa said they always put their presents out on Christmas Eve after the kids have gone to sleep, so when they arrived home and opened the Fed Ex box of wrapped presents, the girls started jumping up and down screaming “did Santa come” How cute is that? They have zero money and are the epitome of a hard working American family that our Country was built on. They’re great people and never complain about anything, so we decided to send them all gifts that they could never afford or if they could, would never buy for themselves. Hope they like them!
Today we get a break from the snow but not the cold. Tomorrow we’re planning on going back down to Denver but if the weatherman is right, that’ll never happen. Yesterday afternoon the boys and I met up with Jag’s basketball coach to give him some wine for Christmas. We met him at Battle Mountain which is Jag’s old school for about 3 weeks earlier this year where his coach is a physics teacher. When he came out to the car to meet us he said that he and the biology teacher, who had Jag for those short three weeks, were talking about Jag for the past 20 minutes. He said that Jag reminded them both of a student from last year who went on to MIT. He said they know Jag is so smart and has this gifted way of thinkingĂ‚Â just like the kid they both taught last year. Jag was in the car hearing this and just said thanks, but this was quite the compliment.
Both boys were playing together on some game downstairs when Lori and I fell asleep. Hope it won’t be too hard to get them up, ha. The news just said Loveland Pass is closed meaning they have 20 minute stops at the tunnel at the top of every hour so we’ll need to time it just right so we’re not sitting at 12,000 feet on the highway waiting to get through.
It’s 6:32 now and we need to leave in exactly one hour and 8 minutes so time to go. Have a great day, only a couple of days to go until Christmas! Enjoy these last 72 hours and God Bless.