Christmas was quite enjoyable this year. But to understand you have to know that every year my entire life my family would travel to Chicago and Peoria to see my grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins for Christmas. This normally meant driving 8 hours from Columbia, MO to Chicago, in the cold December weather, while squished into the back seat of a small compact car and 2 other siblings. Only once in my life did I not travel for Christmas - when I was 7, my little brother was born 9 days before Christmas so we did not travel.
Anyway, this year Tom and I opted for a relaxing Christmas. We had dinner and opened presents with Tom's parents and grandma on Christmas Eve (and opened lots of cool presents including warm, fuzzy pajamas, vertical horizon cd, gift certificate for target, and a new alarm clock (the lovely chinchillas chewed up the cord of my old one). The chinchillas got some chew treats/toys. After a quiet and relaxing evening Tom and I attended midnight mass at St. Joeseph in Manchester church, and then decided to go ahead and open our presents to each other at 1:30 am on Christmas morning when we got home. From Tom and the chinchillas I got the Rob Thomas cd, 101.1 the river cd, and the Trans-siberian Orchestra cd, Mario Party 7 for gamecube, the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie, the Simpsons season 6, and an adopted polar bear from the St. Louis Zoo (well the Polar Bear has to stay at the zoo...but I'm his adopted mother).
And there's still more to come...this weekend we are visiting my family in Columbia to exchange gifts with them!
I was thinking about adopting a Polar Bear for my mom. So you have the only living bear at the St. Louis zoo>? wow! Big responsibibility. Phantom didn't show up on xmas no suprise, mom did get some pics of him by the xmas tree that morning tho. He hopped on my bed last night, and purred. Silly cat, afraid of everything and anything!
ReplyDeletePets are so funny...Roo was determined to get some bites of the orange I was eating in the bedroom last night...she prefered the skin of the orange tho.
ReplyDeleteMe and probably hundreds of other people have the one polar bear at the zoo - lol. They put your name on this little computer system in the living world and on the website so you can look up what animal people have. We got Tom's grandma a Puffin since that's her favorite animal. She loves to go visit them!
Mmm, Christmas Pizza.
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