How wonderful! I didn't think you'd be able to email at all. It was so good to speak with you yesterday. Forty minutes just flies by! But you look good and seem very happy.
I'm so glad you baked a cake for your companion. That's my boy!
Christmas has been so wonderful. Josie was so happy after getting several times above what she dreamed that she wrote Dad and me a note which she read to us while we made pumpkin pies for dessert: "Dear Mom and Dad, I'm sorry that I ever never listened to you and I am so, so, sorry. And I will never do that again."
A few minutes later as I was making the holiday Jell-O salad, Josie came up talking to me about her dresses and how Santa knew that she'd need a cloak... and looking up at my work, she interrupted her herself with: Mmmm, I love this Jell-O! It was adorable.
Then tonight walking home from Grandma's she was talking to me about her gloves and the ones she got from Grandma B for Christmas that you saw on the skype are not good for playing in the snow because the snow sticks to them and they get wet. "And I'm just little, so I'm not responsible, so that's why I need different gloves."
And while she ate her holiday Jell-O bedtime snack, she said that she has a lot of crushes on people. She didn't want to tell me all of them. But then she started to and it turns out that if she loves someone, anyone outside the family, that's a crush in her mind. :D
It's been a good Christmas. Cambry gave Parker the Iron Man trilogy and he's watched them all, started the 1st one again at 10 with D whose staying the night. Just before we arrived at Gandma's this afternoon, Grandma was reaching something above the fridge from a chair and her feet, which were in socks, slid out from under her. She fell to the ground hard, cracking her head open on the face of the base cabinet door. She and Grandpa spent a few hours in the ER getting her checked out. She has a mild concussion and needed 5 staples in the back of her head. Cambry and C made Grandma and Dad cry when they sang a duet from the book she got him for Christmas from Phantom of the Opera, "That's All I Ask of You." C, who knows that it's Cambry's dream to own a library, laid the foundation for her by building her a bookcase for her Christmas present. It's funny, because as I was drifting off to sleep the weekend of Thanksgiving, I knew that's what he was doing and I laughed. I haven't seen it yet, but she said it's beautiful.
Aleah got an MP4 which she wanted and it's already showing glichy. Fun! Elise mostly got clothes and some piano books. She LOVES her new clothes. She's so easy to please. Josie got a dress-up wardrobe when she'd only asked for a Belle dress. Cambry got a painting she'd picked up in Lonon framed. Parker got his bike! The one he wanted was way above the price I was willing to pay and he didn't want to put any of his money to it, so we hadn't moved on it. But I offered to put his Christmas money to the difference. It worked well.
We had a big snow fall last night, probably six inches above the snow we still had. It was really a picture perfect day.
We love you so much. I'm glad you're there. Do a good work!
Love,
Mom
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