January 8, 2012
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Christmas: Fast and Furious
I realize I didn’t post about Christmas – it came at us hard and fast this year. It was mostly good, which the usual side of insanity, most notablty -
1. Jeremiah’s teacher informs us that on “Take a Picture With Santa Day” he went all “Elf” on his classmates and proclaimed that THIS SANTA IS NOT REAL GUYS, NO, REALLY, I AM NOT LYING, YOU ARE BEING LIED TO, THAT IS JUST A REGULAR OLD GUY IN A SANTA SUIT AND HE WILL BRING YOU ZERO PRESENTS BECAUSE GUYS SANTA IS NOT REAL, REALLY. Apparently this is the kind of thing that makes normal 5 and 6 year olds cry, because that is what they all did, all the while Jeremiah is trying to convince his teacher that by the rules of logic and physics, the whole concept of Santa is inane. Merry Christmas from your 6 year old realist.
2. Last minute OH SHIT moment after reading Jeremiah’s letter to Santa (which he wrote either to pacify his teacher or just to fuck with us, I can’t tell) which included items like “robot dog from Japan” and “wind up Gingerbread man.” And of course, NOTHING on the list were things we had actually purchased for him, which resulted in…
3. Marky and I had to make an after work trip to Woodfield Mall (read: retail HELL) the week of Christmas for last minute shopping. All I could think was how much more palatable the whole experience would have been had my Starbucks gotten a couple of pumps of whiskey instead of peppermint. (By the way Starbucks, that idea is on me. Feel free to run with it. You’re welcome.) Also, watching your husband haggle with a 14 year old Russian sales girl over the price of a remote control helicopter is pretty mind blowing.
I did raid the Angry Birds kiosk at Woodfield pretty hard though, which resulted in this awesome pic from Jonah’s camera:
All in all though, things were good. We ate too much, drank too much and were very grateful for the time spent with family and the generous gifts we received.
I love these photos of the boys having hot chocolate by the way:
