Christmas begins
Tuesday, 21 Dec 2004 Family
So yesterday we spent getting ready for Christmas. We’re spending the week with my parents in Portland. My sister Charis will be arriving too, but no grandmas this year.
We had a lot of packages to wrap, and some of them were biggies. I sent Anna out to shop for the things we hadn’t picked up yet while I wrapped and packed. We finally got everything done and set out on our three-hour drive at 9:30pm. Fortunately traffic was light (Monday night at midnight is apparently not a popular hour for driving through the mountains, imagine that) and we made good time. I didn’t fall asleep and drive off into either solid rock or empty air, either, which is always a good thing.
We arrived at a darkened house and crept upstairs and into our bed.
This morning I awoke to find Mom gone to a Gideons meeting and Dad gone to do a grandma swap. Dad’s mom Ida lives in Portland and is spending Christmas with my uncle Darwin in Medford (to the south). Mom’s mom Phyllis lives in Eugene and is spending Christmas with my aunt Louise in Vancouver, WA (to the north). So Dad gets to drive Ida to Eugene and hand her off to Darwin, and pick up Phyllis and drive her back to Vancouver and hand her off to Louise. He’ll be back home around 5:00pm this evening.
Meanwhile, Anna has opened up her laptop and fired up Geneforge and I have been catching up on my email. The hospital seems to be carrying on without me.
Now let’s see if this remote blogging trick works. Hello, world.
We had a lot of packages to wrap, and some of them were biggies. I sent Anna out to shop for the things we hadn’t picked up yet while I wrapped and packed. We finally got everything done and set out on our three-hour drive at 9:30pm. Fortunately traffic was light (Monday night at midnight is apparently not a popular hour for driving through the mountains, imagine that) and we made good time. I didn’t fall asleep and drive off into either solid rock or empty air, either, which is always a good thing.
We arrived at a darkened house and crept upstairs and into our bed.
This morning I awoke to find Mom gone to a Gideons meeting and Dad gone to do a grandma swap. Dad’s mom Ida lives in Portland and is spending Christmas with my uncle Darwin in Medford (to the south). Mom’s mom Phyllis lives in Eugene and is spending Christmas with my aunt Louise in Vancouver, WA (to the north). So Dad gets to drive Ida to Eugene and hand her off to Darwin, and pick up Phyllis and drive her back to Vancouver and hand her off to Louise. He’ll be back home around 5:00pm this evening.
Meanwhile, Anna has opened up her laptop and fired up Geneforge and I have been catching up on my email. The hospital seems to be carrying on without me.
Now let’s see if this remote blogging trick works. Hello, world.
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