Christmas
There will be pictures at some point. Probably a large number. Sadie was great fun this year.
It worked out unexpectedly well to have the thing at my sister’s Saturday, as we all slept excessively late today and Sadie took hours to open everything. The main complaint I have is false advertising. The turkey and ham at my sister’s turned out to be roast pork and ham. Had I known, I’d have bought a turkey and cooked it today. We even tried, but got to Hannaford after 6:00 Saturday night. So I couldn’t even get a pie and some eggnog as planned.
Sadie’s overwhelmingly favorite present was a dog from my mother. It’s not so much a traditional stuffed animal as a toy that takes batteries and is stuffed animal looking. She latched onto it in a way she never has for any other stuffed animal or doll. She also loved her Nemo floor pillow from her great-grandmother, and her tent from her grandparents. There were other hits too, and nothing she particularly dismissed. It’s just that she really got excited about those.
I got the Bo Bice CD for Deb. It sounds great! We played it twice in a row today. What’s funny is I went in Wal-Mart the day it was released, saw it on a one day sale for $4 off, said “oh, Deb will want this,” and grabbed it. When I got home, Deb suggested I should get it for her, and she had been thinking along those lines around the same time I was seeing the CD in Wal-Mart.
At any rate, the CD isn’t exactly what we’d expected, which is a courser, more southern rock style, but he just sounds amazing. Overproducing and commercializing doesn’t change that. When he’s an established seller, maybe he can dabble with his roots.
Anyway, sleepy now. More later.
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