1. Actually, we have no leftovers. No, we're not big pigs. We went to a nice restaurant for T-day, and since I would've felt weird asking the cook to put some turkey, cranberry sauce, and sweet potatoes into Tupperware containers, we have no leftovers. A neighbor did bring over some pumpkin cheesecake, which was gone by the next morning. Maybe it WAS a good idea we didn't have leftovers.
2. No Christmas decorations yet. I usually put them up the day after T-Day, like 99.9% of Americans. And I will not put up decorations until I've met my writing goal this weekend. It helps that we haven't bought a tree yet (we get the artificial kind since we have cats--the needles can cause digestive problems, a very real problem since our cats like eating lint off the ground, much less a pine needle--and our last tree got left behind in The Great Move of 2006).
3. It snowed! For a day. It melted after two days. But it snowed! Last year, we had to wait until late January for our first snow flurries.
4. After it snowed, I was a bad mommy. I put the munchkin in her snowsuit, deposited her in the snow, moved her arms and legs about, and took a picture of her and her snow angel. She had a "What the hell?" look on her face the entire time.
5. This will be the munchkin's first Christmas. Said munchkin will only be five-and-a-half months old when she has this Christmas. Will she know if she has presents or not? Nope. Will Mommy still buy presents? Yep. But they're all books (like the one above). Most kids would hate books for Christmas. So I better get them out of the way now before she has a memory.
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Baby snow angel? Yes, bad mommy...hilarious story. And as far as books as gifts, I give them all the time to the young people in my life. One of my faves (and theirs) is The Kids' Book of Questions by Gregory Stock. Even hard-to-please young teens go, "Oooo, cool," when faced with questions like "Would you go without bathing for a year for $20,000?"
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