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back to normal again
Dec. 27th, 2003 12:58 pmFeeling both better and worse on our first full day of vacation. So let's make this a "better" post :) and thanks to you guys for your words of comfort in the last couple of days.
I didn't mention this before, but Christmas Day went much, much better after Chris had a long nap while I cleaned and made dinner. He woke up himself again, helped me to finish cooking, then my mom and Guy came by and we had a pretty good dinner, if I do say so myself. Chicken, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce and bread. Mmmm.
Ended up talking far into the night about my father, of all people, because of a story my mom had told about him at dinner. It had to do with him swooping down on us right after Christmas when I was about three, buying me expensive presents even though my mom was counting pennies for food at the time, then swooping off and telling me I'd probably never see him again. I didn't think it was that big a deal, but it prompted Chris to tell me later that he was considering putting his Manly Foot down to ensure my father never entered our lives again. (The Manly Foot is something Chris gets once a year to have his will obeyed without question. I get one Womanly Foot a year too :)
I told him he didn't have to waste his Manly Feet on that, since I've pretty much decided that even if my father gets over his (almost four year old) snit and decides to grace us with his presence again, I don't want him in our lives. My father has a lot of good qualities, but I don't particularly want my kids to get jerked around by him the way I was, or the way my brothers were. Besides, it's not like the kids have a shortage of grandparents.
As a matter of fact, one of those grandparents may be coming by sometime today. Chris' stepmother Leslie, his stepbrother Chris, and his sister Sarah are hopefully going to visit us for a little while today. Which is nice.
And now, because it's the holidays and time to be silly, here's a couple of silly memes. The Postmodernist quiz, which was actually rather accurate for me, and the New Years Resolution quiz, which I include mostly in case anybody wants to take it. The questions are quite cute. You have to love a quiz that includes the phrase "You have pictures of a highly-ranked extraterrestrial ambassador performing obscene acts with an antelope."
( silly memes )
I didn't mention this before, but Christmas Day went much, much better after Chris had a long nap while I cleaned and made dinner. He woke up himself again, helped me to finish cooking, then my mom and Guy came by and we had a pretty good dinner, if I do say so myself. Chicken, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce and bread. Mmmm.
Ended up talking far into the night about my father, of all people, because of a story my mom had told about him at dinner. It had to do with him swooping down on us right after Christmas when I was about three, buying me expensive presents even though my mom was counting pennies for food at the time, then swooping off and telling me I'd probably never see him again. I didn't think it was that big a deal, but it prompted Chris to tell me later that he was considering putting his Manly Foot down to ensure my father never entered our lives again. (The Manly Foot is something Chris gets once a year to have his will obeyed without question. I get one Womanly Foot a year too :)
I told him he didn't have to waste his Manly Feet on that, since I've pretty much decided that even if my father gets over his (almost four year old) snit and decides to grace us with his presence again, I don't want him in our lives. My father has a lot of good qualities, but I don't particularly want my kids to get jerked around by him the way I was, or the way my brothers were. Besides, it's not like the kids have a shortage of grandparents.
As a matter of fact, one of those grandparents may be coming by sometime today. Chris' stepmother Leslie, his stepbrother Chris, and his sister Sarah are hopefully going to visit us for a little while today. Which is nice.
And now, because it's the holidays and time to be silly, here's a couple of silly memes. The Postmodernist quiz, which was actually rather accurate for me, and the New Years Resolution quiz, which I include mostly in case anybody wants to take it. The questions are quite cute. You have to love a quiz that includes the phrase "You have pictures of a highly-ranked extraterrestrial ambassador performing obscene acts with an antelope."
( silly memes )
