Daily Archives: December 18, 2010
Landon’s First Christmas . . .
Since we didn’t get home from the Alvin Opry until after 1am, we both slept really late this morning, with Jan getting up after 9. And I didn’t get up until about 10:30.
I fixed coffee and we just enjoyed life for a while. Later Jan wrapped Christmas presents and I worked on de-virifying another computer.
About 11:45 Nick Russell called to say Hi, and to talk about the world in general. We also discussed when we would be meeting in Yuma in February to get ready for the Western Gypsy Journal Rally that starts the first part of March.
About 3 I decided it was a good time for a nap, and it was a good one.
At 5 we headed up to Webster to meet Brandi, Lowell, and Landon at King Food for a early Christmas Eve dinner.
It’s a family tradition that every Christmas Eve we have dinner at King Food, and we’ve been doing it for about 25 years. In fact we’ve been eating there since we first moved to Houston in 1978. And we’re actually on our 4th owners, but lucky for us they’ve all kept the same great menu.
But this is the first year we won’t all be together here in Houston. We now have to share Brandi with Lowell’s family in Oklahoma.
So this year we’re having two Christmas Eve dinners. One tonight because Brandi, Lowell, and Landon are leaving Wednesday to spend Christmas with Lowell’s family in Paul’s Valley, OK. And then another one with Chris, Linda, and Piper next Friday on the other Christmas Eve.
But Landon wasn’t very impressed with the whole tradition. He slept through the whole thing.
After dinner we went over to Brandi’s to exchange gifts, and got to see Landon’s first Christmas tree.
And he was fascinated by it.
About 8:30 Santa came by on a firetruck giving out candy to the waiting kids. This is something that the local volunteer fire department has done for the kids in the subdivision for as long as I can remember. And the kids turn out for it every year.
Landon couldn’t take his eyes off Santa and the firetruck. But he wasn’t letting go of dinner, either.
Chris and Piper came over for a while to visit with Landon. Unfortunately Linda had to work tonight, so she couldn’t be with us.
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Thought for the Day:
I’m not moody, I’m just exploring that fine line between cynicism and outright depression.
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