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kittenscribble) wrote2005-12-26 12:44 pm
kittenscribble) wrote2005-12-26 12:44 pm
Christmas report
Woke up yesterday morning to the sound of the smallest cousin, shouting "Mary, Mary! Mary! Mary!" at the top of his four-year-old lungs. I was slightly disconcerted until I heard his father tell him that "it doesn't mean anything unless you put the word 'Christmas' after it."
Apparently his father had been teaching him the use of the exclamation point. "If you don't have the exclamation point, then it only says 'merry.' But if you have the exclamation point, it says 'merry!' See?"
Christmas was nice - the rain, relentless for the past few days, let up briefly, though the sky was still grey. We collected an aunt and went to see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (second time for me, which gave me time to notice that either they put both Patil twins in Gryffindor, or Padma spends a heck of a lot of time in the Gryffindor common room). Still delightful, definitely my favorite of the series thus far. Then back to the other aunt's house, where I tried to be helpful in the kitchen but quickly realized that my time would be best spent keeping smallest cousin out of the kitchen. So I babysat all evening as increasingly wonderful smells filled the house. My aunt's first turkey turned out wonderfully, moist and delicious with the red wine gravy. (None of us were very good with turkey. Everyone was very experienced with duck, but not turkey, so the outcome had been in doubt until the very end.)
Now it's Boxing Day. We're thinking of going to the mall, but we're worried about the Boxing Day sales traffic (Boxing Day is the Canadian version of Black Friday; the crowds are insane). Ah well, we'll see.
I leave you with this gem: Gaiman and Pratchett's New Years Resolutions for Crowley and Aziraphale.
Apparently his father had been teaching him the use of the exclamation point. "If you don't have the exclamation point, then it only says 'merry.' But if you have the exclamation point, it says 'merry!' See?"
Christmas was nice - the rain, relentless for the past few days, let up briefly, though the sky was still grey. We collected an aunt and went to see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (second time for me, which gave me time to notice that either they put both Patil twins in Gryffindor, or Padma spends a heck of a lot of time in the Gryffindor common room). Still delightful, definitely my favorite of the series thus far. Then back to the other aunt's house, where I tried to be helpful in the kitchen but quickly realized that my time would be best spent keeping smallest cousin out of the kitchen. So I babysat all evening as increasingly wonderful smells filled the house. My aunt's first turkey turned out wonderfully, moist and delicious with the red wine gravy. (None of us were very good with turkey. Everyone was very experienced with duck, but not turkey, so the outcome had been in doubt until the very end.)
Now it's Boxing Day. We're thinking of going to the mall, but we're worried about the Boxing Day sales traffic (Boxing Day is the Canadian version of Black Friday; the crowds are insane). Ah well, we'll see.
I leave you with this gem: Gaiman and Pratchett's New Years Resolutions for Crowley and Aziraphale.