MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

So Santa came down the chimney last night and filled the stockings. Everyone went to bed at a semi-reasonable time and woke up ready for Christmas! So we opened up most of the gifts and everyone seemed very happy with their haul. I know I was very happy with mine! The kids biological father came over and we opened the last of the gifts. Then everyone Skyped and called over favorite people all over the world and I made a very late lunch that consisted of breakfast. The kids retired to the X-box and engaged in a little modern warfare while the Mrs. and I sampled one of my gifts. A bottle of absinthe! Now I don't like anise but I found out I like absinthe. It is a very nice tipsy feeling without the drunky, muddle headedness of other boozes. I have a crush on a green fairy! LOL!!


So nicely tipsy we started working on pupu's and supper. It was a major undertaking that my wife pulled off with aplomb and fantastic results. Pupu's were spinach dip a sour dough bowl and french onion dip and chips. Dinner was roast duck, smoked turkey, mashed potatoes, yams, broccoli and brussel sprouts with a sparkling cider to wash it down. Desert was an egg pudding delight that was cooked by the #2 boy that was taught to him by a nice German grandpa! Thank you!! Now for a long nights sleep....after a longer night of cleaning up. Thank you Santa!!


And yes Mom I went to church last night.

Ahhh the holidays

So my Bride has been a trooper lately. Work has been more stressful than necessary for her and it is time for her to chill out a bit. Unfortunately it is the holiday season and 2 weeks of having the all kids around will probably be a mixture of joy and frustration. Teenagers are horrible creatures as a wise woman said! But you know what? We are going to look on the bright side of things and enjoy the holidays! As part of the whole holiday experience I had my first roasted chestnut last night. How many times in your life have you sung the song? I know that I have sung the first line from the song countless times…mostly because I don’t know the rest of the song. However I never ate a chestnut until last night. You know what? They are awful things. OK not awful but they are not to my taste. A little too…chest nutty I guess. Mushy too, but mostly chest nutty. Well at least I tried it and that is what counts! Never get so old that you won’t try new things, no matter how chest nutty they are!

So I must confess this is the first Christmas in a long time where I am looking forward to opening my gifts. Sure there is always that nice feeling of getting something, but the real excitement has been gone for a while and I just took that as part of getting older. I mean adults don’t get nice toys and shiny bobbins attached to gimcracks and geegaws! Adults get socks, and clothes, and stuff that is needed. Gift cards and the like so that they can go out and buy practical things! Being an adult at Christmas is a pain! Now don’t get me wrong my Mrs. has done an excellent job of teaching me to open up to the Christmas spirit! I am eternally grateful for that too! Now I get joy from watching others get their stuff and I can go “Ooooo look! I did that, I made that smile!”

OK, sure that is nice but don’t you really want to look forward to getting you own something nice too? Luckily I have a wonderful wife who has been working hard to get that excitement back for me. It has only taken her 5 years, which is pretty much record time too as I am a notorious Scrooge!! The best part is that she has put that holiday spirit in me just in time for me to get excited about something the kids got me. You see I have a big thingy under the tree with my name on it! By thingy I mean it is big and round and wrapped up and I have no idea what the h3ll it is!! I know it isn’t socks, or clothes, or stuff like that, it is a big ole something and who wouldn’t get excited about THAT?! Also I have a bunch of stuff’s under the tree for me! Smaller thingies that are just begging to be opened! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! Also my Bride has a big ole stack of lil’ thingies for her to open! So do the kids! My baby boy has his thingy in the mail and should be getting it soon! I am so stoked for Christmas I could pee my pants!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well it’s not ticking…….

So I found a round tin of what appears to be cookies on my desk today. Everybody got them but I don’t know who they’re from. Rumor has it the boss got them for everybody but I don’t know that for sure. I mean it could be an assassination attempt. Poot has tried to kill me twice this month by grabbing my foot while I am heading toward the stairs and once while walking toward the glass coffee table. If not for my ninja like reflexes my wife’s dog would have ended my life, in a manner that would have looked like a complete accident, which we all know is the perfect assassination! I don’t know why Poot wants me dead but I suspect it has something to do with a ball, or food, or a ball made of food. But that is just a guess. It could also have something to do with the fact that the dogs stocking is empty. Last year their stocking was filled with goodies well before everyone else’s. It seems to me the ole girl may be feeling a little left out and is trying to grab my attention about it. I should probably find a way to tell her that killing me is a bad way to fill a stocking and it would actually put her on Santa’s naughty list! Ok it was just cookies! Turns out the boss here bought a big tin of cookies for everyone and they are this really nice ginger cookie that are thin and crisp and very nice to eat! Hooray for the holidays!