I had an awesome time at Juliana's this morning with stockings and a rousing game of Taboo, but decided to skip out on the afternoon festivities, before all my energy got replaced by crank, so now I am home and curled up with the cats. All in all, a pretty nice day, even if it was shorter than i hoped.

Sounds like generally a good Christmas in Buffista-ville! I've had a lovely couple of days with family and church and friends and all the food in the world. OMG. Dinner tonight was off the chain -- roast pork, horseradish mashed potatoes, apples with cippolini onions, and a beet salad to start. Yesterday afternoon, the main course was ham, and there was all of the cream cheese spreads in the world before AND after. And my parents are taking me out for fancy birthday dinner tomorrow! I should never eat again.

Also, I am pleased with the now modest state of family gift giving. Everything was great! And my toddler cousin loved the bucket-o-animals I had bought for my grandmother to give to the church toy drive. (She liked it so much, she kept it for my cousin.) So I felt like a double winner!

Good times.

Found 'em!! They were in the kids' room closet in a drawer I checked twice without seeing them.

It's a Christmas miracle!! (OK, probably not.)

Oh, also -- Cashmere may or may not like to know that I puked pretty much every holiday and the first night of vacation for much of my childhood. Excitement + treats = puking.

Our Xmas miracle was that Tyler woke up damned cheerful and fast for him and there was only one meltdown and it wasn't until about 15 minutes before they were done opening things. And it barely lasted a minute (he had an hour long wailing&gnashing&flailing&throwing things fit the other night. And we were ignoring it and he was shut in his room. Little dude has stamina and raaaaaage.)

Also, snow in Alabama. I swear, since D was born on a dark and stormy night in Texas (tornados and hail and weird lightning, and no, not normal for that part of Texas in December) every place they've lived has had some sort of stormy weather slightly unusual for the place on the 24/25th.

SIL and Tyler are passed out. Josh is editing videos and Dominic is further deconstructing his room, I think. We have half the foyer filled with packaging detritus. But all the xmas dishes are done.

We have a tub for drinks that is still in the living room. It is now full of paper and other wrappings. It is waiting to go to the recycle bin,but as all the rain in the world is falling , it might not go out tonight

We are escaping! Cass-wards!

Oh, huh. Snowstorm tomorrow?? I guess no birthday dinner for me....

It occurs to me that the place we're planning on going is totally transit accessible, so if it's not actually bad yet, maybe we can still go!

I fear the snowstorm may mess with my travel plans.

So I got a Kindle for Xmas. I don't actually have it...it was backordered, but it was totally unexpected. I'll have to figure out sources for books. Were people talking about them in literary or tech?

In Lit, Sue.

I can't believe we're supposed to get all this snow tomorrow. At least we have lots of food left over and nowhere to go!