Let the countdown begin, 10 day until Christmas and 16 or 17 until January 1st 2012 depending on how you count. I remember counting down the years and then days to the year 2000 and here we are starring at 2012! Wow, think about it, it’s like when we were younger watching some future movie like Terminator and them flashing to the future saying “2012”. Somehow it has more impact than any previous year, at least to me.
My how the World has changed. I think this year I’m going to make a point of having my Mom explain to all of us what Christmas was like for her as a little girl. In fact, it would be fun to hear from any of you old foggies out there, what can you tell us? When we were kids we would always get up early and sneak downstairs to see a huge present from Santa usually unwrapped. I’m not sure when we started sleeping in but I’m sure my Mom could tell you the exact year as we continuously woke her up before she was ready. Some of our more memorable gifts was a bumper pool table that sat in our living room for over a month with a table cloth on it and none of us kids figured it out. My most special gift was a bass guitar that I think is still in my Mom’s upstairs closet. As we got older, my parents moved away from one big gift from Santa and turned to surprising us at the end of the morning by going in the other room and bringing out one last big present after we thought we were all done. This had even greater effect as you would open all your presents and then be sitting back and my Mom or Dad would nonchalantly get up and leave the room and come back with some fabulous gift like a new leather coat or a pair of skis. It was great and always reminded me of the kid in the movie the Christmas Story whose dad spotted a Red Rider BB gun in the corner after they were all through opening all their gifts and he thought he didn’t get the one thing he wanted the most. My parents were always very generous and never let any of us kids down. If you haven’t seen the movie The Christmas Story, ( you’re living in a cave!) you have to watch it! It usually plays on TNT starting Christmas eve and runs over and over until Christmas morning. I made sure to put it on every year, especially in my dad’s later years as it used to really make him laugh. You really should watch it, it has humor for young and old alike.
Yesterday the misses made lots of goodies for the boys parties coming up tomorrow. I have lots of errands to run today and a bunch of excel work. I don’t want to bore you with work but let’s just say, there’s still a lot to do.
The oldest has taken to writing Santa a letter every night and leaving it by his shoe. These will be great for him to have when he gets older. Uncle T and Aunt Robi commented that they too remember putting out our shoes but Uncle T ays he remembers us doing it for only one night. I think he’s mistaken and we had them out for the entire 12 days of Christmas, I’ll have to check with my Mom. Speaking of my lovely mother, I had a chance to see her briefly yesterday and she looks good. I told her a few weeks ago when we got back from Paris that we’re taking her in the Spring and I’m not letting her off the hook, as she’ll love it! In may ways my Mom epitomizes Paris, she’s always been so classy and “Parisian” even though she doesn’t know it. Think Coco Channel of Colorado, that’s my Mom. Anyhow, we’re planning on renting an apartment so anyone can come if they want. I think we’ll get one for 2 weeks or so giving everyone a chance to use it for a few days. Europe is so great and everyone should go if they can. I think Grandma Dixie might even make it as we talked about it the other day. Luckily we have some connections to help make this affordable. We also have a free apartment in Nice whenever we want it, hmmm. Most of you might not remember but when the oldest child was really young, we went to Aix in Provence for a week, Italy for a week and then Paris for a week, all on the same trip, it was great. So, get off your duff and start thinking about it now, I promise you, you won’t be sorry, it’ll be the trip of a lifetime. And for my Mom, get ready, we won’t take no for an answer, you are going!
Time to hit the gym, it’s 5:11 and I need to run. Have a great day and a blessed day.
p.s. we were out of coffee creamer this morning so I used some egg nog and I’m not sure but I think it had some rum in it leftover from our party as I’m a little tipsy! Whoo hoo! Maybe it’s just lack of sleep, I need to check with the misses when she gets up.
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