Christmas: The Aftermath
Well, another Christmas come and gone. I hope all of you had a safe and happy one. Ours saw the coming together of family and friends for good food, fine drink, and plenty of Christmas cheer.
The highlights of our Christmas weekend - to be filed under "Simple Pleasures" - include:
My twin daughters (2-1/2 years old) in their red tartan plaid Christmas dresses opening their presents that Santa left for them under the "Miss-miss twee".
My wife's cooking - roast leg of lamb, ratatouille (I have no idea how to spell that), roasted garlic mashed potatoes (OK, I did the potatoes), and a chocolate pear tart, all washed down with a fine assortment of beer and wine. And VERY little for Sunday leftovers.
Spending Friday morning making pine cone birdfeeders with the girls - messy as all get out, but no one seemed to mind.
Giving my wife the 12-DVD Lord of the Rings Super-geek Extended Version Trilogy box set, so that she can live out her Viggo Mortensen infatuation, over and over and over again.
Getting from my wife the Faith Rewarded - The Historic Season of the 2004 Boston Red Sox DVD, and actually being able to watch it before she commandeered the DVD player for the next three weeks.
Watching the Patriots rebound from their embarrassing loss last week to Miami, and take the Jets to the woodshed, securing the #2 seed in the playoffs.
Well, that's all for now. I'll be posting the Christmas in Boston Weekend in Review post soon (and yes, we will be enacting the Dead Horse Beating Early Warning System).
NOTE: Post edited 12/28/04 - that 2nd paragraph was just too damn cheeseball.
The highlights of our Christmas weekend - to be filed under "Simple Pleasures" - include:
My twin daughters (2-1/2 years old) in their red tartan plaid Christmas dresses opening their presents that Santa left for them under the "Miss-miss twee".
My wife's cooking - roast leg of lamb, ratatouille (I have no idea how to spell that), roasted garlic mashed potatoes (OK, I did the potatoes), and a chocolate pear tart, all washed down with a fine assortment of beer and wine. And VERY little for Sunday leftovers.
Spending Friday morning making pine cone birdfeeders with the girls - messy as all get out, but no one seemed to mind.
Giving my wife the 12-DVD Lord of the Rings Super-geek Extended Version Trilogy box set, so that she can live out her Viggo Mortensen infatuation, over and over and over again.
Getting from my wife the Faith Rewarded - The Historic Season of the 2004 Boston Red Sox DVD, and actually being able to watch it before she commandeered the DVD player for the next three weeks.
Watching the Patriots rebound from their embarrassing loss last week to Miami, and take the Jets to the woodshed, securing the #2 seed in the playoffs.
Well, that's all for now. I'll be posting the Christmas in Boston Weekend in Review post soon (and yes, we will be enacting the Dead Horse Beating Early Warning System).
NOTE: Post edited 12/28/04 - that 2nd paragraph was just too damn cheeseball.
