Getting Through Christmas
Let's see. We're 3 days into Christmas break and so far, so good, I guess. Thursday, before Christmas break, the 6 of us celebrated Jaden's 7th birthday at Ryan's Steakhouse. My 2 youngest girls love that place. To me, the food is OK but there is just something about it that reduces humans to cattle rushing toward the feeding trough. That's what it looks like anyway. Plus there are fewer and fewer staff people who speak English there and the diners are pretty exclusively redneck but still, we had a nice time. Hard to believe my baby is SEVEN!
Saturday it snowed, quite a bit so I got my shoveling time in. It's still too snowy and icy to walk my 2 miles so I'm totally into shoveling to burn those calories. Today was was even tempted to shovel the walks of some neighbors---not next door mind you, but neighbors a couple of blocks away that when I drove by hadn't shoveled their walks yet. Resisted the urge though, thought it might seem kinda weird to them to see this woman walking around with her shovel randomly shoveling sidewalks. Rented 3 movies and watched "Deck the Halls" this evening.
Sunday a.m. was church. In the afternoon we watched "We Are Marshall" and tried to watch "The Astronaut Farmer" but the latter was pretty weird and boring so didn't get through that.
Today, got groceries for tomorrow this a.m. Replaced several lightbulbs with the newish kind that's supposed to last lke 9 years and save tons on electricity and did a few other odds and ends. The kids opened 1 Christmas present each so we spent alot of the afternoon playing Monopoly--Ky's gift of the day.
Tomorrow we're going to do various kinds of soups at my friend Jean's house. I feel bad for dad being alone and we were going to go up there but with the snow on Saturday, decided not to. Still thinking about going next weekend though.
