EP366 Week 33

Day 225
December 11, 2011




Day 226
December 12, 2011




Day 227
December 13, 2011






Day 228
December 14, 2011




Day 229
December 15, 2011




Day 230
December 16, 2011



Day 231
December 17, 2011

EP366 Week 32

Day 218
December 4, 2011





Day 219
December 5, 2011




Day 220
December 6, 2011




Day 221
December 7, 2011




Day 222
December 8, 2011




Day 223
December 9, 2011




Day 224
December 10, 2011

EP366 Week 31

Day 211
November 27, 2011




Day 212
November 28, 2011





Day 213
November 29, 2011




Day 214
November 30, 2011




Day 215
December 1, 2011





Day 216
December 2, 2011




Day 217
December 3, 2011

That In-Between Time

I love the last week of the year. It's that calm-after the storm sort of thing....where there's always leftovers in the 'fridge and no one really has to be anywhere or do anything.

This was a different Christmas...but fun. All the chicks were home to roost- but in a semi-permanent state. AJ and Anna-Grace were at her mom's house for Christmas Eve and so it was Alix and I first thing on Christmas.

Before anything "began" we grabbed coffee and turned on the traditional "always on in the background" continuous loop of that Christmas staple "A Christmas Story". Still funny as hell, no matter how many times I see it.



Proper headgear donned, Alix telephones Wesley to wake him up..





Cruisegran always has clever and much-appreciated prezzies...



North Face Jacket. Score!!!





Then "GJ" came over in their jammies around 11am for stockings and prezzies...



Anna-Grace's custom-designed running shoes. Sooooo HER!!!



Molly found her master and mistress wearing those silly hats too much to take.......






Wesley came over around 1pm....



And another round of prezzies ensued.

AJ experimented with some bacon, onions and brussel sprouts (never a bad combination...)



The Beef Wellington came out perfect--yes, PERFECT...



There couldn't have been a better way to end the day!

Holy Frijoles!! 10 days and counting!!

Yikes! Where has the time flown??

I've been crazy possessed, trying to get Christmas loose ends tied up before the chicks come to roost for the holidays!



I finally got Christmas cards and packages mailed not 30 minutes ago, and now I can begin to get the house ready for SANTA!!!!

On the academic front, Alix sitting the second of six exams as I type. Two tomorrow and two on Friday.

AJ has one exam- French- left. The fact that the subject matter of two of his three finished exams dealt with astrophysics and quantum mechanics makes my head hurt. I can barely spell them.

Wesley, that rat, has been off since Thanksgiving. Quarter system at Georgia Military College. This has not ceased to rankle Alix as she researched and wrote papers on stem cell research and Alice-in-Wonderland Syndrome (yes, a real disease).

And Anna-Grace....well, Anna-Grace is an official GRADUATE of the University of Georgia!! And she has a job!!!!! And she's researching Master's programs. Don'tcha think there's a little bit of overachieving in that couple?????

The tree is up.



Yes, Alix and I hunted it at "The Flower Garden", brought it home, trimmed the bottom and set it up in its stand together!! No fuss, no muss and no CURSING!!! Wesley did the lights and I did the ribbons. That's as far as we have gotten. Rome wasn't built in a day.

Alix also insisted on a mini kitchen tree--yes....a pink tinsel mini tree, with pink, purple, silver and white ornaments.




Oh, STOP THAT!! It's Christmas.