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Dec. 25th, 2008 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nonionayThe train came in to Portland only a couple hours late. It turns out the drive to my aunt's place was the most harrowing. The roads were a lumpy mass of six inch deep slush. My dad had chains, but sheesh.
Puzzles are a family tradition, and this year, we had a big, difficult one of santa sleeping. We've almost got it done!
I slept on my aunt's couch, while everyone else is in a retreat center just through the woods. So this morning I got to get up early and bear a package through snowy* woods full of deer tracks.
My dad's been going on about setting up Skype Christmas morning to watch the kids down in California (my cousin's kids) open their presents. We (everyone but dad) were skeptical, but it worked! Likely because we signed on after the kids opened their presents. So we got to see the girls do somersaults on their new tumbling mat and sing carols. On our end, we had a handheld camera, so we got to give the cousins the most motion-sickness-filled Christmas ever!
*crunchy slushy
Puzzles are a family tradition, and this year, we had a big, difficult one of santa sleeping. We've almost got it done!
I slept on my aunt's couch, while everyone else is in a retreat center just through the woods. So this morning I got to get up early and bear a package through snowy* woods full of deer tracks.
My dad's been going on about setting up Skype Christmas morning to watch the kids down in California (my cousin's kids) open their presents. We (everyone but dad) were skeptical, but it worked! Likely because we signed on after the kids opened their presents. So we got to see the girls do somersaults on their new tumbling mat and sing carols. On our end, we had a handheld camera, so we got to give the cousins the most motion-sickness-filled Christmas ever!
*crunchy slushy
