anagramofbrat | That Winter Holiday

Drew and I are having our first Christmas with the kids at home.. This necessitated a bit of a mad rush yesterday as he hadn't done any of his shopping and I wanted to pick up some more stuff aside from the bits I'd Amazoned already. Plus with the bajillion teeny wrapped presents they'd gotten from from their aunt and uncle in Japan, we really needed some stockings to keep them from getting lost or becoming cat toys.

I'd say I did well.

Can I just say I'd incredibly amused that Netflix subtitled the yule log?

We spent a bit of the evening out with their mother's family for Christmas Eve Chinese food, which I'd never done before. Pleased to report that Ginger Garden has improved considerably since our first, terrible trip there; may have to revise opinion on it. As of now, we've just finished the wrapping, the kids have been put to bed after being allowed to open one present each and watch the Grinch, and I'm looking intensely forward to the mad scramble of wrapping paper tomorrow as the kids burrow in to discover what all they've gotten. I overindulged on them by a LOT, but I'm not feeling too terrible about it seeing as its sort of my way of honoring Dad's memory. Christmas was his jam, and he had sooooooo much fun spoiling all of us, so I'm just paying the spoilage forward.

The next 24ish hours are going to be mad hectic, so to all of y'all I leave the following thought.