Holiday Season
It's the holiday season...

The past three days have been a blur. We finished our cards, met M for lunch so he could sign the cards, found out M hadn't really planned anything for his employees for a little holiday gift. Spent that afternoon shopping, to eventually buy nice presents for his bosses and peers, and 100 (gah, 100) cookie cutters for the employees in his section.

We printed out 100 little cards that said: I made a plate of cookies to share with you this year; / I thought it was a great way to spread some winter cheer. / They all looked really tasty, so I thought I'd eat just one. / A little while later, I noticed there were none! / So here's my season's greeting, and a cookie cutter too. / Now you can make your own cookies, and maybe share a few! - sums up M's attitude towards cookies... then we punched little star-shaped holes in each card and tied a cookie cutter on with ribbon. All while watching about 5 episodes of the Muppet Show (including the Phantom of the Muppet Show, and the Mummenschantz episode).

Right, and of course the card-making was interrupted by our usual Thursday dinner night at the parent center...

On Friday, C and I wrapped, and worked on making a few personalized presents. We made a luggage-christmas-tree - which must be seen to be believed - and went out to lunch with friends. (Hi, cricketsong1967!) After lunch we were on another shopping mission, this time because I realized I hadn't really bought anything for my dad's wife beyond stocking stuffers (yay, Staples!) then on to the grocery store to buy the ingredients for my tortellini pasta salad. When I got home, the phone started ringing off the hook - a lot of back-and-forthing in order to get just_the_ash up here for Christmas, calling the hotel for a room, calls to and from M, my dad, etc. It had a good ending but kept me on the phone from the time I got home, all through the pasta-salad-making, up until M came home from work. PHEW.

Last night was a very nice holiday open house party at a neighbor's house - they are a slightly older family, with 5 teenagers, 2 of whom are adopted. They've lived in Guatemala and Chile, attend UU, and have one son with Asperger's. Let's just say we had a lot to talk about! C had a good time playing with two of the boys from the street, 3 year old D who we know to say hello to and often see at parent centers or the playground (with his brother N who was sick yesterday), and 4 year old J who we hadn't met before.

Today I did my final grocery shopping and a little extra swing by Target for, um, can't say since just_the_ash is reading. A gift. Then we went to R&J's house to do gifts with them since they are going skiing (or just to a dry cabin, since it's 48 degrees here) tonight through Tuesday.

C was excited to get some of the STR WORZ GIES he'd been ogling in the store (the Battle of Geonosis pack), the Millennium Falcon Transformers set, and a Lite Brite (with Star Wars refill pack, of course).

This afternoon, mostly wrapping and playing the Battle of Geonosis over, and over, and over, and over.

I'm busy, but not overly stressed.