11:24 amThe Morning After
Yesterday was fantastic. Christmas Eve night, the kids slept in our room (a mistake we’ll be sure not to make in future years). Zoe woke up at about 2:30 or 3:00 in the morning and barely went back to sleep.
“Mom, I’m just too excited to go to sleep. I can’t stop thinking about it!”
With every creak of the house, or bang of the duct work, or whirring of the refrigerator turning on, she thought for sure that Santa was out in the family room bestowing presents. I barely got a wink of sleep.
Then, to top it off, when I went out to do my duty of… uhh… making sure that Santa had come, she was not asleep like I thought she was. It could have been disastrous, but Jon patched it all back together… like the brilliant daddy that he is. Jachin — the one who vowed to stay up all night and snare Santa in a diabolical trap — slept like a baby.
We spent Christmas morning opening gifts. Jachin got a RipStick, which he practiced in the basement. Cement floors are perfect for skateboarding and rollerskating and all sorts of things that you can’t do outside during Utah winters. He also got a couple of Wii games and legos. My mom got him a big robotic insect that walks with creepy realism and shoots darts . It’s been clacking noisily across the wood floors all morning, menacingly shooting darts at squealing, unsuspecting girls. Girls who have been playing with Hannah Montana dolls all morning…
Which brings us to Zoe. Zoe received a singing Hannah Montana doll. The goal this morning? To get the singing Hannah Montana doll to sing at the same time as the Hannah Montana CD.
The first time through the song is cute… the fiftieth? Not so cute any more. I want to puncture my ear drums with mistletoe twigs or pine branches from the Christmas tree.
Other than a Hannah Montana doll whose batteries can’t die fast enough, Zoe also received a soccer goal set and an electronic password journal. She changed the password about a dozen times yesterday. Jachin successfully mimicked her voice several times to gain entry… much to Zoe’s whining dismay.
My big surprise for Jon was a big, fat flop. Actually, it was a big, skinny flop. The Diesel jeans I got for him (that were meant to be his BIG surprise) were too small. He looked all European and Emo. Plus, I think they had actual grease stains on them. Really expensive grease… At any rate, it was a flop. They are going back to Nordstrom, and I’ll get him 4 pairs of Lucky’s instead. Or maybe three pair for Jon and one for me…
I got a precious tiny pink laptop. It’s the smallest thing you’ve ever seen. It’s an Eee Laptop, it runs Linux which make me feel nerdy and smart and it weighs, like, a pound. It’s perfect to carry around (it fits in my purse) to do on-the-fly writing. Other than my precious laptop, I also go the complete Star Trek Motion Picture DVD set and a new exercise ball… since my old one blew away in a wind storm.
We went to Jon’s parents’ for lunch and opened gifts there. Cousins played with cousins and Kim and Mike’s kids discovered the Wii. It was precious to see Kas doing Wii bowling. We went to my mom’s for a ham dinner. We played a sweet game called Scum (where I took my turn in the scum seat. I didn’t handle that well.) I got to talk to my sister, Karen, in Maryland, and my cool uncle Beezer in Georgia. (His birth name is not Beezer, obviously… and just about every calls him Andy anymore, except me.)
The day ended with us bringing Paige home for a Christmas night sleepover. I have been neglecting them and ignoring them all day in order to blog and watch Star Trek: Insurrection. I may actually go feed them lunch now… they’ve been snacking on the Christmas treats from the neighbors that have been steadily coming in over the last week. So, you know, cookies, popcorn, Sprite, and candy. The four Christmas food groups.
Hope your Christmas was very Merry, indeed.
(pics up on flickr)
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What a great Christmas! I love your itty bitty laptop. And in pink! Awesome!
I love the video. It reminds me of the year my next door neighbor and I both got boom boxes for Christmas, along with a Whitney Houston cassette tape. Our ongoing goal was to get both boom boxes blaring “How Will I Know?” at exactly the same time.
Comment by Leslie — December 26, 2007 @ 3:39 pm
Brianna got that same exact Hannah Montana doll and a microphone for Christmas. I got to hear her sing along with it about a hundred times. Did Kim and Mike fall in love with the wii? You should have recorded their reaction, I’m sure that they weren’t expecting to get a wii!
Comment by Sam — December 28, 2007 @ 7:53 am
Merry Christmas, it sounds like you had a wonderful time! I can’t wait to see you guys we will have to plan a family outing.=)
Comment by Diana — December 28, 2007 @ 12:55 pm
Lovely lovely! I’m so glad your holiday was so joyous. I tried reallly hard (so hard I got a massive headache) and ended up just silently praying. A lot.
Have a delightful new year celebration
Comment by stephanie — December 30, 2007 @ 12:17 pm
OMG…my favorite part of that video is Zoe’s friend in the background with her spot on rythym and lip sinching abilities. Maybe they can start an all girl Hannah Montana lip synch band. And just fyi…I have no idea how to spell lip synch, I think maybe I am trying to synch a knot? LOL
After holiday smooches to you!
Comment by nerak — January 3, 2008 @ 2:06 pm
@Nerak- Heehee, yeah, the other girl is actually my little sister, Paige. She has funky rhythm just like her older sister. Don’t tell me you don’t remember the Paula Abdul days…(And yeah, I have a sister the same age as my son… just roll with it.)
Comment by admin — January 3, 2008 @ 9:40 pm