We are members of the Huntsville Museum of Art, though I visit far too infrequently. Sometime before Christmas, Lea said something to me about a traveling exhibit there. Now she probably explained the whole thing to me, but what I carried forward from it was “stained glass.” So she said something about wanting to go [...]
Dec 262011
The boys had a good Christmas morning, I believe, though this is almost certainly Aaron’s last year to believe in Santa Claus. Nathan, calling on subtlety and understatement I didn’t realize he yet had, did a good job preserving it for Aaron without overselling it. Lea and I got a new couch for Christmas, and [...]
Dec 252011
For to us a child is born; to us a son is given. And the government shall be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. – Isaiah 9:6 Merry Christmas to you and your family.
I am on the cusp of accomplishing something unprecedented. As I type at midday on Christmas Eve 2011, I have—this entire season—completely avoided every single annoying Christmas song there is. I mean completely. I’ve not heard “Feliz Navidad” once. Not a single piercingly annoying bar of “Wonderful Christmastime” has sullied my auditory canal. That stupid [...]
Dec 192011
The boys helped me start and finish the cards yesterday in exactly two hours, which was fantastic. Lea is her usual awesome self, handling at least one thing I don’t see for every thing I do. As for me, dudes and dolls, if it’s not in my sphere of Christmas concern by 7:30 on the [...]
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