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!

I forgot to take any food from my parents'! Hmph. I'd better go grocery shopping in the morning.

Traditional Jewish Christmas. Only this year our little hick town actually had an open Chinese Xmas, so we actually went out instead of eating takeout bought yesterday. Olympia is starting to grow up. snif. snif.

Also I agree with the conventional wisdom that "True Grit" is a first rate movie.

We did Jewish Christmas kind of backwards. We had dim sum for lunch, then watched DVDs at home, and then had Italian food for dinner, from an Italian restaurant that was open for some reason.

Yeah, another bugaboo is I was planning on using Monday to grocery shop. Yeah, nsm, IF I make it home. Plenty of Indian tv dinners in the freezer, at least. Maybe I should rebook now, but...I'm willing to take the risk. Oops, I have to stay on vacation longer and I have the hours?