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Happy Birthday, Jesus! Have a great day, everyone!

Let’s take a survey! You can answer with ‘when I was a kid’ or ‘now as an adult’ answers – I don’t judge. (You can copy-and-paste if you like.)

1. Do you open presents Christmas Eve, Christmas Day or other?
2. Do you do stockings?
3. White lights or colored lights?
4. Real or fake tree?
5. Tree topper?

1. Do you open presents Christmas Eve, Christmas Day or other? As a kid, it was always Christmas Eve. Now – whenever I want! You can’t tell me what to do!
2. Do you do stockings? We have some, but I don’t always hang them up. We had them when I was a kid, and one year my Mom wanted us to open one stocking gift a day for each of the 12 days of Christmas. That lasted for 12 minutes. Sorry, Mom.
3. White lights or colored lights? White lights, non-twinkling.
4. Real or fake tree? Fake tree. It’s just so much easier.
5. Tree topper? It’s a little star this year.

So, it’s been a heckuva holiday around here. I’ve been sick and have only left the house to check the mail. Saturday morning I actually took a shower, but then spent the day on the sofa cursing the liars who make cough medicine. They lie – oh, how they lie.

So, since all I have is whining on my plate, tell me something wonderful you ate! (Hey, I’m a poet and don’t know it.) It can be something from the Big Meal or something else. Mine would be the Runza meal that Lloyd brought me for lunch. I couldn’t have stomached turkey one more time.

(Note: Before you read this, you’ll need to know that I keep a piece of card stock in my back pocket all day to write down things I need to do and stuff I want to remember.)

One of the preschoolers was looking at a book with animals, and had a question.

Bailey: “Mrs. Sommerer, is this a crocodocle?”

Me: “……..Bailey, go get me a pen.”

The cuteness. I die from it. I also never correct a child who says ‘lallow’ instead of ‘yellow’.

I used to say ‘kinitial’ as a kid instead of initial.

You? Any cute goofs?

Um, I’m gonna need me a baby owl. Especially one that hunts imaginary prey.

And now, for something to comment about: Three childhood Halloween costumes, in no particular order. I’ll go first:

* Darth Vader (borrowed helmet from brother)
* Jawa (I was supposed to have glowing eyes, but technology hadn’t caught up yet)
* A clown? (Huh, it’s hard for me to come up with three. Drat my terrible memory.)