Christmas In Progress
Dec. 26th, 2006 02:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saphyriaChristmas in our family is always a struggle to plan so that everyone can get here at one time. My brother Jim got in from Japan on Saturday, my uncle, aunt and cousin got in on Monday, and my sister, brother-in-law and nieces get in tonight around suppertime. We'll have supper of traditional fare (turkey and cornbread dressing, peas, salad, fruit salad, biscuits, home-made cranberry sauce, deviled eggs, and home-made coconut cake, home-made (home-grown) apple pie, home-made sweet-potato pie, home-made bread pudding with whiskey sauce and rum cake) tonight, then open the ever-growing pile of presents from and for sixteen people. Jim calls it the orgy of wrapping paper, as we usually can't see the floor, afterwards. Our goal is to not be able to see the tree by the time everyone has their gifts put there. We only have four more feet of the eight-foot tree to go, so far.
I love the holidays.
It's been good so far. We've taught my 20-month old nephew to do the finger movements while saying "Redrum" in a scratchy voice ala Danny Torrence in King's The Shining. We were nearly rolling on the floor laughing, literally, and Ethan just thought it was the best thing in the world to make everyone laugh so much. I love my family. We're evil.
Yesterday, Jim and I had lunch over at Grannie's. It was very good. She couldn't hear a word we said, so we didn't try to say much, but it was enjoyable enough. She enjoyed herself, we could tell. The only thing that kind of grated was that she kept wondering when Jim was going to come home and settle down, which makes us both uncomfortable because Jim is having the time of his life in Japan, teaching English, playing videogames and going snowboarding with his coworkers on the weekends.
Anyway, I need to go make some tea and fold clothes. It's my job to keep up with the laundry, and with more people than ever staying in our house, the washing machine and the dryer are thinking they must've done something to make us angry at them. They're almost always on, lately.
Anyway. I shall update with loot later. I've been knitting on other gifts that I need to send out, lately. *shifty*
Talk to you all later! *flees!*
I love the holidays.
It's been good so far. We've taught my 20-month old nephew to do the finger movements while saying "Redrum" in a scratchy voice ala Danny Torrence in King's The Shining. We were nearly rolling on the floor laughing, literally, and Ethan just thought it was the best thing in the world to make everyone laugh so much. I love my family. We're evil.
Yesterday, Jim and I had lunch over at Grannie's. It was very good. She couldn't hear a word we said, so we didn't try to say much, but it was enjoyable enough. She enjoyed herself, we could tell. The only thing that kind of grated was that she kept wondering when Jim was going to come home and settle down, which makes us both uncomfortable because Jim is having the time of his life in Japan, teaching English, playing videogames and going snowboarding with his coworkers on the weekends.
Anyway, I need to go make some tea and fold clothes. It's my job to keep up with the laundry, and with more people than ever staying in our house, the washing machine and the dryer are thinking they must've done something to make us angry at them. They're almost always on, lately.
Anyway. I shall update with loot later. I've been knitting on other gifts that I need to send out, lately. *shifty*
Talk to you all later! *flees!*
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2006-12-27 12:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-27 01:00 am (UTC)