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Back from Christmas v. 1.0 spent in Virginia with my immediate family at my sister's house. Sister is officially very pregnant and looks and feels great. Everyone is well except me who came down with a nasty headcold Thursday evening.
Felt horrible Friday, and only slightly less horrible Saturday, but we drove down anyway. Better enough today to go to the gym after we got back home. We stopped in Alexandria at that Bosnian/Croatian restaurant on the way home. So yummy.
Christmas 1.0 was lovely. I got to see all the baby stuff (my parents handmade a lovely wooden changing table for them, the crib is beautiful, my sister's MIL bought $500(!) worth of adorable baby clothes, etc.). Mom really liked the earrings I got for her. Dave liked the work shirts (I was nervous, hard to buy for the BIL). Denis bought me an absolutely gorgeous leather briefcase (it's like I'm an adult, professional, something) and a spa gift certificate. I got him a scarf, bag, and two tickets for West Side Story on Monday. I hope it's good. Denis was in West Side Story in highschool (he may have told you this story, we have the VHS tape if you're interested, yes, I've seen it).
I was originally going to stay at my sister's for a couple days, but the sickness put me behind on grading so I'm home until my parents drive up to DC on Wednesday. Then Christmas Day I'm driving with them to Maine because my father is leaving for a church trip to Honduras the next day. I have a day or two in Maine to see highschool friends (yay!). Then next weekend(?) my sister and BIL are driving to Maine (with the two dogs), then the four of us are driving to the Upper Valley. Denis is flying into Manchester and renting a car. Then we will have Christmas v. 2.0 at the relative's (we're not sure when, there's one evening and one morning when almost everyone will be there). Denis can only stay for 24 hours before we are driving down to MA for New Year's. Then a couple days after that we're flying back to DC and I have 2 days to edit my syllabus before classes start again. Got all that? :)
In short: Christmas was awesome, behind on grading, looking forward to more Christmas.
Felt horrible Friday, and only slightly less horrible Saturday, but we drove down anyway. Better enough today to go to the gym after we got back home. We stopped in Alexandria at that Bosnian/Croatian restaurant on the way home. So yummy.
Christmas 1.0 was lovely. I got to see all the baby stuff (my parents handmade a lovely wooden changing table for them, the crib is beautiful, my sister's MIL bought $500(!) worth of adorable baby clothes, etc.). Mom really liked the earrings I got for her. Dave liked the work shirts (I was nervous, hard to buy for the BIL). Denis bought me an absolutely gorgeous leather briefcase (it's like I'm an adult, professional, something) and a spa gift certificate. I got him a scarf, bag, and two tickets for West Side Story on Monday. I hope it's good. Denis was in West Side Story in highschool (he may have told you this story, we have the VHS tape if you're interested, yes, I've seen it).
I was originally going to stay at my sister's for a couple days, but the sickness put me behind on grading so I'm home until my parents drive up to DC on Wednesday. Then Christmas Day I'm driving with them to Maine because my father is leaving for a church trip to Honduras the next day. I have a day or two in Maine to see highschool friends (yay!). Then next weekend(?) my sister and BIL are driving to Maine (with the two dogs), then the four of us are driving to the Upper Valley. Denis is flying into Manchester and renting a car. Then we will have Christmas v. 2.0 at the relative's (we're not sure when, there's one evening and one morning when almost everyone will be there). Denis can only stay for 24 hours before we are driving down to MA for New Year's. Then a couple days after that we're flying back to DC and I have 2 days to edit my syllabus before classes start again. Got all that? :)
In short: Christmas was awesome, behind on grading, looking forward to more Christmas.
