A three day weekend over the Christmas holiday was truly enjoyable. Tolerable weather at the Oregon Coast made for a low key, low drama, low effort time. No tire chains and road closures this year. In fact, Christmas Day was a beautifully sunny day.
Children were delighted to receive a bunch of books, a few well chosen new toys, and netbook PCs from Grandma and Grandpa to help them with their schoolwork.
R is now the proud owner of his own internal frame backpack, ready to grow with him through most of his Boy Scout career. Oh, there’s a new Boy Scout uniform for him as well.
M’s new friend is a Femisapien programmable robot. If ever there was a non-technical but credible robotics toy meant to appeal to a technically-minded ballet dancer, this is it. M spent most of Christmas day teaching her new robot how to dance.
My sister, P, was there with her guy, C. That’s the whole family on my side – Grandma and Grandpa, the two kids, and one kid’s two kids. Contrast that to the eleven cousins I grew up with, and its a different dynamic for my kids – they have LOTS of quality time with their grandparents.
R and I stayed over at the beach until Sunday. C and M made the trip back to Portland on Saturday, so M could turn in her last two performances of The Nutcracker. As I’m writing this, C and M are attending The Nutcracker, sitting in the audience for the last matinee of the season. After all this, M still hadn’t seen the production as an audience member would. So, today’s HER day to watch!
Tonight, C will meet us halfway between home and the Beach, so as to trade me for M. It’s the infamous Johnson family ‘hostage swap.’ M and R will spend a couple days with Grandma and Grandpa, I’ll work Monday through Thursday. C will spend a day or so in Portland, then come back down to the Beach house as soon as her Portland duties are complete.
It’s a quiet, low-key holiday, as planned. Nice.
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