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Happy Christmas

It never fails to amaze me how quickly Christmas flies by. The build-up begins before the snow flies (before Halloween this year, I noted) - and, just like that, it's all over. Driveways are full of garbage bags containing paper and boxes that should have been recycled. The return lines are full of people holding gift receipts and lame presents from distant family members and husbands now sleeping on the couch. And mothers everywhere are making gallons of turkey noodle soup.

Technically, mine's not *quite* over. My mom's family will be heading to Rock Lake on Friday afternoon for three days of fun in the snow and Christmas festivities.

It was a really great long weekend. I spent Friday night curled up on a couch with The Boy watching 'Love Actually' - my favourite Christmas movie - and force-feeding him homemade soup in an attempt to make him healthy before the holidays. Wait. Did I say force-feeding? I meant ENCOURAGING. No one needs to be forced to consume my soup, it's amazing :P

Saturday, I cleaned my house (which was way more exciting to me than it sounds... I'm such a geek) and then Geoff and I met Anja and Kyle for dinner. The morning of the 24th, I was singing in church and then headed over to my parents' place - just a hop, skip, and a jump through the snow-covered countryside. Later, a few of us watched 'A Christmas Story' and then our family had dinner together and opened gifts. Kevin, Cait, and Geoff were all there this year and it was really fun. Lots of laughing at Jessica, our resident drama queen, with a few nice little Hallmark moments thrown in.

On Monday (Christmas Day), my dad's family all came over for lunch and for the afternoon. That gathering is usually hosted by my grandparents, but plans all changed when my oma had a stroke last week. My oma was able to come, which was a total answer to prayer, but she needed lots of help and was using her walker. It was different, but in a 'we're glad that everyone's here with us' way.

Today was seriously lazy. I slept in, spent lots of time with my parents, cleaned my car (talk about a Christmas miracle), made use of my parents' outdoor hot tub, did my nails... Yeah, that's about it. It was glorious. And it's back to The Big City in the morning.

So Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.

L

PS - My dad is working on some kind of invention... Apparently, ordinary toboggans on giant, icy hills aren't fast enough. He has a plan that involves wheels, plywood, margarine, and helmets. I kid you not. I've seen the sketches for myself - proudly displayed on our fridge and ominously labelled 'The Lindzinator 2007.' For those of you joining us at Rock Lake this winter - either now or for the February retreat - consider yourselves warned. That should be plenty of time to beef up your life insurance.

Labels: Christmas

posted by Lindsay @ 11:51 PM