Christmas Weekend

For Angela – this past weekend was Steve’s annual company party. This party is fabulous because we get to stay overnight in Courtenay at a luxury hotel, and because my Mom is the bestest Mom, she took the kids for TWO nights. Sadly, Steve couldn’t handle drinking three girlie martinis in a row, and spent several hours (the wee, wee hours of Saturday night) suffering for that decision. That part wasn’t much fun, although by far the biggest let-down from that decision was that we didn’t get to do our advent activity on Sunday (a Family Skate) – it will have to get worked into the schedule for another day.
Otherwise the advent activities are going really well. The kids seem to love doing them and I feel so organized and am pleased to be doing things that I want to do during the whole Christmas season. Today we made gingerbread dough, truffles, and squares. Even my Mom kept up with the activities while we were gone! On friday we decided what food we wanted to donate to the food bank (including Mushroom Soup because Callum doesn’t like it, but not Tomato Soup, which he does like… which sort of defeats the purpose but ok). Then we all piled into the car and dropped off our donation and that? well, that was a bit of a let-down to be honest. The volunteer taking the donation barely acknowledged us and no one said two words to Callum. I was hoping that there would be an older gentlemen volunteer there that would engage Callum, you know? Talk about giving to those in need and all that good stuff. We DID talk about it, and Callum was excited to be there and then …nothing.
That damn movie in your head, it always does you in.