Oh, so much to tell … but it’s 11 p.m. here and we just got home after 7 1/2 hours on the !?#@?!! road.
But stay tuned.
So …. while I gather my thoughts here, a question:
What’s the most unfortunate thing you got for Christmas and what did you say when you opened it? Kindly include all facial expressions and physical gestures. I want details, peeps! 😉
I got “That’s Entertainment”, all four discs, when what I really wanted was the “Silly Symphonies”, which I did buy for the daughter.
But I’m a quick recoverer, and was gracious. “Oh, my!I didn’t know there were *four* sections!”
Alas, he’s quick, too and I couldn’t fake him out.
He just hadn’t gotten the memo, or else I’d have received what I wanted. After all, he did buy me “The Civil War” and “Band of Brothers” for Christmases past.
And two of the kids gave me my ritual oven mitts, but I go thru those pretty fast and can always use extra.
It’s been lovely having the younger two here for a week, and the youngest for two more. Took a bath in their bathroom, which is jammed with exotic toiletries. Sampled several of them, in fact, and wound up smelling like a well-to-do metrosexual.
Hope everyone’s was happy!
Well, when I opened up the turkey baster my 11 year old son bought for me it was either smile graciously or laugh out loud. I kind of did both, while thanking him profusely. “I will definitely get a lot of use out of this, hon!” Guess I’ll be roasting a lot of poultry this winter. Get out the sweet basil rub.
Sal — Ooh! I love “That’s Entertainment”! I didn’t know there were four sections, either. 😉
Missy — Aw. Somehow that is so cute to me. He obviously loves your turkey and would like you to make more, please.
“Oh, thank you, we LOVE fruit”. To my very strange, very Old Maid aunt. She gave us bruised Granny Smith’s and 4 old oranges in the same plastic tub (that reminds me of a bedpan) that she gave us last year. Same tissue paper too, if memory serves me right. And we each got 2 calendars too. Who needs FOUR calendars?!?!?!
ASM — I’m all a’shiver. Bedpan Fruit. Sweet Lord.
My thoughts exactly. I DO love fruit and all, but into the trashcan it went. Her home is very um, unsanitary, so no amount of orange peel is going to protect that poor little fruit.
*A pink toolbox from the dollar store
*A Hawaiian shirt with guitars on it
*A stadium photo with a scoreboard which reads — “The Boston Red Sox Welcome, [Your Name Here]”
*Jumbo-sized plastic salt and pepper grinders from Sam’s Club
*A plastic necklace-go-round
*Stickers
*A pom-pon pen
Thanks, Mom! *eye roll*