The Family Christmas
Dec. 24th, 2006 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sraunThe big Family Christmas for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iraunink's side was last night - it would normally have been tonight, but was moved back a day for a reason that I've forgotten. kosmickitten & bernesemntdog hosted, also in attendance were Fred (bernesemntdog's father), iraunink's parents (called G&G as a unit, or Grandma and Grandpa by everyone else - I've temporarily forgotten their names), Andrea (the former significant other of the eldest son) and AJ (the grand-son), and Monica and Flavin. Interesting conversation, good food (ham, panettone, potatoes au gratin, cornbread, fruit salad, Key Lime pie, Dutch Apple pie, sweet & spice pickled garlic, pickled asparagus, pickled herring in wine sauce, black and ripe olives, broccoli cauliflower celery and carrots with dip), many presents. AJ got a Lightning McQueen car - that was the last box opened, by his mother's decree. No one had to pay any attention to him after that, only to where the car was - and make certain their feet were out of the way. It was a definite hit!
The most amazing bit of present-giving to me was that Monica and Flavin actually gave me a present! It was a bunch of Altoids.
Other highlights -iraunink filled in the volumes from Diane Duane's Wizardry series that I was missing. I gave her an Easter Island Tissue Box Cover (follow the link - it's almost as good as the voodoo knife holder I gave her last year). kosmickitten got Margarita glasses, bernesemntdog got Apples to Apples. We're giving G&G dinner, a Minnesota Orchestra concert, and transportation - we gave them a list of the concerts we've got for the rest of the year, they get to pick which one. iraunink got an egg tree - she collects carved stone eggs, this holds bunch of them. bernesemntdog got a tool box and a scrapbooking box, kosmickitten got a digital camera (one of the complicated ones that takes attachable lenses, along with at least one lens and some other attachments) - past that, I kind of lost track. Oh, I got a fountain pen display case from kosmickitten & bernesemntdog.
iraunink's side was last night - it would normally have been tonight, but was moved back a day for a reason that I've forgotten. kosmickitten & bernesemntdog hosted, also in attendance were Fred (bernesemntdog's father), iraunink's parents (called G&G as a unit, or Grandma and Grandpa by everyone else - I've temporarily forgotten their names), Andrea (the former significant other of the eldest son) and AJ (the grand-son), and Monica and Flavin. Interesting conversation, good food (ham, panettone, potatoes au gratin, cornbread, fruit salad, Key Lime pie, Dutch Apple pie, sweet & spice pickled garlic, pickled asparagus, pickled herring in wine sauce, black and ripe olives, broccoli cauliflower celery and carrots with dip), many presents. AJ got a Lightning McQueen car - that was the last box opened, by his mother's decree. No one had to pay any attention to him after that, only to where the car was - and make certain their feet were out of the way. It was a definite hit!The most amazing bit of present-giving to me was that Monica and Flavin actually gave me a present! It was a bunch of Altoids.
Other highlights -
iraunink filled in the volumes from Diane Duane's Wizardry series that I was missing. I gave her an Easter Island Tissue Box Cover (follow the link - it's almost as good as the voodoo knife holder I gave her last year). kosmickitten got Margarita glasses, bernesemntdog got Apples to Apples. We're giving G&G dinner, a Minnesota Orchestra concert, and transportation - we gave them a list of the concerts we've got for the rest of the year, they get to pick which one. iraunink got an egg tree - she collects carved stone eggs, this holds bunch of them. bernesemntdog got a tool box and a scrapbooking box, kosmickitten got a digital camera (one of the complicated ones that takes attachable lenses, along with at least one lens and some other attachments) - past that, I kind of lost track. Oh, I got a fountain pen display case from kosmickitten & bernesemntdog.
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Date: 2006-12-25 12:18 am (UTC)