Woke up and cannot immediately go back to sleep due to far too much on my mind.
This is the first year in my 30+ in which we did not go to one of my relatives for Christmas Eve. Instead, all of the way too many cousins were doing things with their own expanding families and the like, so we got together here with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
wolfie74's mother and the boys' father. The boys' father usually comes over for Christmas Day, opens presents with us, then takes the kids to his side of the family for their festivities. Due to the massive amounts of snow and ice and the possibility of being snowed in, we did everything tonight instead and he left with them before it got worse. It was a little odd after so many years of doing it differently, but it does mean the possibility of sleeping in come morning for the first time in years.
wolfie74 seems to have really loved her gifts. The boys actualy actively searched for things with meaning to them this year (versus the Chocolate Fountain Year, the Operation Game Year and more) and I found a handmade doll on Etsy of her fave Doctor that she cooed over, amongst other things. She got me things for our upcoming trip and a shirt that's technically in her fandom but the art kinda makes it looks like Natasha as well and makes me both want ALL THE KIDFIC and want to change one of my last two ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
hc_bingo stories that I'm struggling with to kidfic as well.
Her mother gave me something I am still struggling to figure out how to react to, but in a positive, heirloom, you-are-family kind of way. My mother both listened about a WWII history book I wanted in memory of my great-great aunt, and got me bracelet a friend made at a craft show because "it has stars and moons and celestial stuff you like."
And, finally, I peeked at LJ when I first woke back up and couldn't fall asleep and Yuletide has posted! Dude - I got three stories to enjoy in the morning while contemplating survival in the vast cold and white. So excited! Will post more when I am coherent and awake enough to do so about those!
This is the first year in my 30+ in which we did not go to one of my relatives for Christmas Eve. Instead, all of the way too many cousins were doing things with their own expanding families and the like, so we got together here with
wolfie74's mother and the boys' father. The boys' father usually comes over for Christmas Day, opens presents with us, then takes the kids to his side of the family for their festivities. Due to the massive amounts of snow and ice and the possibility of being snowed in, we did everything tonight instead and he left with them before it got worse. It was a little odd after so many years of doing it differently, but it does mean the possibility of sleeping in come morning for the first time in years.wolfie74 seems to have really loved her gifts. The boys actualy actively searched for things with meaning to them this year (versus the Chocolate Fountain Year, the Operation Game Year and more) and I found a handmade doll on Etsy of her fave Doctor that she cooed over, amongst other things. She got me things for our upcoming trip and a shirt that's technically in her fandom but the art kinda makes it looks like Natasha as well and makes me both want ALL THE KIDFIC and want to change one of my last two hc_bingo stories that I'm struggling with to kidfic as well.Her mother gave me something I am still struggling to figure out how to react to, but in a positive, heirloom, you-are-family kind of way. My mother both listened about a WWII history book I wanted in memory of my great-great aunt, and got me bracelet a friend made at a craft show because "it has stars and moons and celestial stuff you like."
And, finally, I peeked at LJ when I first woke back up and couldn't fall asleep and Yuletide has posted! Dude - I got three stories to enjoy in the morning while contemplating survival in the vast cold and white. So excited! Will post more when I am coherent and awake enough to do so about those!
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