I am SO CONFLICTED about blogging right now. Angus is only home for a week and I am both trying not to smother him by trying to make EVERY SINGLE MOMENT A MAGICAL FAMILY TOGETHERNESS TIME to make sure he will want to come home again (he's bearing it very well). So I should not be blogging. On the other hand, I can't get enough of everyone's 'how we do Christmas/holiday cards/various other traditions" posts, and they seem like fun to do. So I should be blogging. On the other hand, I still have a fair amount of shit to get done FOR said Christmas. So I should not be blogging. Also, I finally remembered to check my comments awaiting moderation for the first time in forever and found SO MANY really amazing comments which made me feel dumb and also good.
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Matt drove to Hamilton (the city, not the musical, not making THAT mistake again) Thursday and brought Eve home Friday. I saw her briefly and then she had to go to Marianna's house because friends. They are all going to Toronto for New Year's at Alison's apartment where Jackson will then be LIVING and we are reaching a whole NEW stage of the next stage where our kids PLUS ALL THE FRIENDS WHO ARE KIND OF OUR KIDS are growing up EVEN MORE and now New Year's Eve is happening in a whole nother city for them. Great. Independence, fulfillment, self-actualization. Hmph.
Saturday was our big group Christmas party (much like the big group Halloween party I started NaBloPoMo out with) and this was the first time Eve was here for is since first year university, so that was fun. The party will probably get its own post again, but just to hit all the high points: obscene fruit, a salt rifle, "My penis is locked!", awkward family photos, "My penis is now unlocked!", the phone is lost forever, I will cut you if you steal my Yetis, the phone is found it's a Christmas miracle. Angus flew in Saturday and his flight was delayed, so he was technically here in time for the party but he was exhausted so just chilled at home - he's been at the party more recently than Eve anyway.
Sunday Eve went to visit my parents, we hung out in various configurations and then had tacos and all watched the new Knives Out movie (Wake Up Dead Man), which is not a Christmas movie but, for a recovering Catholic with religious trauma was actually a really great movie for this time in my life.
Today Angus went to see my parents and then do Christmas shopping, and brought home a 500-piece puzzle for us to try to do before Christmas. A few years ago he suddenly decided he and I should do a puzzle together and we did a really hard one and it was really fun even though he had to go home before it was done and I had to finish it and send him a picture. We haven't had enough time to do one since, and I was just thinking we needed a 500 piecer. He said his gifts suck this year, but this was already the best gift ever.
We've gotten fewer cards than in many years - Canada Post rotating strikes, people are busy, postage is expensive - but we got enough to fill the pockets in our card stocking. Suzanne's post introduced me to Swistle's card rating system, which somehow I had missed, and it is fire. I am totally stoked at all the extra points my multiple random pictures would garner according to this system, but I did not have enough time or hand strength to write in all the cards this year WHICH IS FINE. I did about thirty-five and still had about 20 left to do when I had to clear all the stuff off the table. I'm hoping to finish most of them between Christmas and New Year's.
I love any card I get - photo, no photo, just a signature, a signature and a written version of the card's actual message - but I am going to give top card honours to the one my friend Liz and her wife:
Multi-faith, multi-photo, baby, cats, Star Wars, nature, politics, and a group message that legit felt like it was spoken to every single person. Ba-bam, mic drop.
I started Christmas baking much later than usual, which honestly is probably fine, given the number of toffee shortbread cookies I ate out of the first batch. Today I mixed another batch and Eve rolled and baked them while I wrapped. Now she is off with her friends again and I am going to do a puzzle with my son. Also, it was supposed to rain the last three days and instead we have gotten a gentle fall of snow every day.
Peace, love, sugar and butter. And to all a good night. <3
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