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.
Tag: christmas village
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December 30
We played Trivial Pursuit tonight. Billy won, but Christina finished the game in a foul mood, promising never to play with me ever again. She got a lot of hard questions and I got a lot of easy ones, and I guess she didn’t see the difference. But then we played That Escalated Quickly, and we’re getting better at that game too. Some of the things we come up with – no, some of the things CHRISTINA comes up with – are incredibly entertaining. I’m glad we got so many games for Christmas. This kind of family time makes me so happy.
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December 16
Now that I finished knitting Pinot’s sweater, I need a new project, so I started a pair of socks using some yarn I got last Christmas. Christina thinks I’m going to give them to her when I’m done. We’ll see.
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December 10
Tuesdays are my easy days. No dance, no cheer, no reason to leave the house at all. We ate pizza and I knitted and watched Santa Claus: The Movie. It’s not the best movie out there, but I have some great memories of watching it when I was a kid. It felt to me then like the most likely version of Christmas and the North Pole. When I watch it, I get to be that kid again that is so immersed in the magic of Christmas that no other explanations for it seem plausible. Now that I hold the strings, it’s a different kind of magic. But it’s only possible because of that six-year-old me that climbed into this movie and lived in it for seven more years. I love Christmas.
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December 8
We put up our village and it looks so quaint, I want to live inside it! Billy got railroad crossing signals that flash, and I think other than the Penn State firehouse and the Christmas countdown, that is my favorite thing on the table. I’m sure there will be more pics to come.
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