December 29

I feel like I’m in the middle of a Christmas hangover. Partly it’s because my body is valiantly fighting off some kind of sickness and I’m tired and scratchy. But also it feels like we’re in the aftermath of a tornado that was made of peppermint and sparkles. Christmas is over but it still lingers. It’s not bad, really, there’s just a lot less anticipation. Anticipation is possibly the best part of Christmas. But tonight we played one of our new games, Mount Cleverest, and it was pretty fun. It turns out I am NOT actually the smartest one in the family. Or so the game would have us believe. I am not fooled.