Just another Day
Well it’s just another day here at the crazy house. Since we opened presents on Solstice, things are calmer and there is not the whole big anxiety thing going on for us anymore which is really cool.
Of course Santa will come on Sunday (Christmas) morning, but things are all set for that and I’m just looking forward to the plans we have.
I got a really nice surprise last night. My oldest son Aaron called to say he wanted to come over and spend his break from work at our house. He works at a magic shop in the mall which is right by our house, and so it’s easy for him. He came mostly because he wanted to help his little 8 year old brother with the magic kit he’d got for me to give him. But he hung out and talked. I tried to feed him, but the chicken we got at the store was all dry and gross, so none of us really ate dinner. But then he said he’d come back and hang out after work. I really can’t figure him out. On nights he is supposed to come over, he doesn’t want to, but then he does things like give me the present to give Mark, and just drop by. While I was here we were talking about going to Melissa’s house for Christmas and I said something about him not wanting to go, and he told me he’d never been invited. It kind of made me mad because Laura had just told me that Katie and Aaron didn’t want to go. So I invited him and he’s going with us too. He may not stay a long time but it’s really cool that he is going. I called and invited Katie too, but I doubt she’ll go. If she goes anywhere on Christmas afternoon after my house I’m betting it will be with Jordan. That was what I always did, hung out with my boyfriend. Even if we went to his creepy Grandparents’ house, it was better than being with my parents.
Last night was the big decorating cookie night too. I had a lot of fun. Melissa is so into everything being perfect and she mixed all the frostings up and was making these really really perfect little Santa Claus faces and stars. But the frosting was so stiff it was really hard to use to frost. So I asked her if she would mind if I thinned one of the colors up. So I did and she looked at it with this really disgusted look. So then I started using it, and like dipping cookies in it (so they looked like the pretty shiny ones in the stores), and she kind of grudgingly said that I could thin up the others if I wanted. She kind of complained at first that she couldn’t “frost” them. Then she saw me having fun, and doing more sort of “artsy” stuff with the cookies. And she started. By the end we really had fun. She had loosened up so much, it looked like we had been doing massive amounts of painting in the kitchen, and our cookies were beautiful. They all sort of look like modern art cookies. At the end I splashed some frosting on her and she painted my face with it. It was the most fun I’ve ever had making cookies. The absolute best part was working with Mel to get her to loosen up and let her artistic side come out. She was so happy at the end. She’d even lost her migraine headache somewhere along way!
Towards the end Aaron had come back from work and he immediately sat down to work on “cutting decks”. It has to do with his job at the magic shop and is quite an affair, with lots of fancy equipment (a modified paper cutter and some other stuff). We finished cleaning the kitchen and collapsed to watch The Grinch Who Stole Christmas with Jim Carrey. It was very late by the time the movie was over and by then Aaron had finished, sat down on the couch next to me and promptly passed out on my shoulder.
Great day. Yup.
