Christmas Continues
Since Thing Two was puking and we, therefore, cancelled the big Christmas dinner, we still hadn’t exchanged gifts with Poppa, Nana & Auntie. We were playing it by ear, making sure we were all healthy enough and waiting for their sewer problem to get worked out. The Things were having a nice jammie day yesterday when Nana called and said that the sewer problem was fixed (took the Roto Rooter guys 3+ hours to fix the job the previous guys didn’t really do). We very quickly threw our stuff together and left to go up there to celebrate and spend the night.
It was a total spur-of-the-moment thing: the Things were still in their jammies; there was wet laundry in the dryer, and we left a sink completely full of dirty dishes.
As you can see from these pictures, the girls loved their books. Click here for the rest of the pictures. Thing Two really loved her Tinkerbell purse, and it was just the right size. They both loved their slumber bags so much that they insisted on sleeping on them, right on the cold, hard floor in my old bedroom.
Poppa, Nana, and Auntie seemed to like their gifts, too. It’s really hard to shop for Poppa and Nana b/c it’s not like they need anything that we can get them. They were tickled with the silly little gifts the girls got them at the Santa’s Secret Shop at school. Nana showed us the gift Poppa had given her. Every once in a while, he gets a real inspiration on a gift for her. This one was VERY unusual and kinda weird, but she loved it. He gave her a tiny picture frame with a drawing inside, accompanied by the business card of a custom jewelry designer they’ve used before. The drawing was hard to figure out, then he explained to her that it was a charm for her charm bracelet (a regular old-fashioned gold charm bracelet, not an Italian modular charm bracelet like I have). The jeweler was going to make it, and it would be ready in mid-January. The charm was going to be made from gold from one of Poppa’s old gold fillings and a piece of bone from way back when Nana had her infamous “Cuisinart incident” that resulted in her needing surgery on her finger, etc. (Yes, the bone is from her finger.)
Last night, hubby and I took advantage of the three free babysitters and ran out to see a late movie. We thought we were going to finally go see the latest Harry Potter movie, however, hubby had a rare moment of confusion, and when we pulled up at the theater, I said, “The marquee says Narnia, not Harry Potter“. So, we saw Narnia instead. That was fine — we’d needed to check it out and see if it was OK for the girls, and I’ve read The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe a few times (lost my copy 11 years ago!), so I was interested in it. Verdict: NOT for Thing Two for sure — too scary. MAYBE Thing One can see it after she’s done reading the book. It’s such a bummer that something that can be fine in a book can become not fine when it gets translated to the screen. It is rated PG, after all. It bugs me b/c the movie is being heavily marketed to churches, and even our church pushed it — lots of people took their little kids to see this movie that probably really disturbed them at times. The book wasn’t nearly so disturbing.
I couldn’t believe how late we slept in this morning! Granted, we got home from the movie after 12:30, and I had a bit of trouble getting to sleep, but still. The Things came in at one point to say good morning (we sleep down in the guest room next to the kitchen, and they sleep up in my old room next to Auntie’s room). It seemed early to me, so I went back to sleep, forgetting that the blinds in that room are practically “black-out” blinds. After a while, I woke up and just lay around in bed for a bit, then finally got up b/c I was so congested I couldn’t breathe through my nose. When I walked into the kitchen and looked at the time, it was 10:22. I couldn’t believe it! Hubby, being much better at relasing and sleeping in than I am, of course, got up even later than I did.
