On Dec. 23, Wed., I finished decorating the tree. Today, Dec. 30, Wed., I'll undecorate it. In between, I took these pictures:Dylan had so much shop work to do in San Francisco, it was all he could do to get away mid-afternoon Christmas Eve to drive out with Rachel to our house. In the end, however, they arrived in plenty of time to enjoy the two kinds of cheese fondue I'd made for dinner.
The last several years, our tradition has been to do some sort of "central cooking pot" meal--the choice for most recent years being asian hot pot, which is broth-based. They are lovely, slow kinds of meals to share.
In fact, the nearly-two days we had together were nice and lazy, for the most part. Eye of the hurricane. We mostly just eat, talk and laugh at Dylan. One example of Dylanstuff we find amusing is illustrated here. That would be he at the computer on Christmas morning, having gotten up a half-hour or so ahead of Rachel around 9:30.
It gave him just enough time to do all his Christmas shopping for her online. He'd given it some good thought, but hadn't quite managed the act of, well, doing it. A new standard for "last minute", but, a very short time later, well-appreciated.
Gifts were fun, as always! Rachel came through (again) with great choices of clothing, including shirts, shoes (!) and slippers for us. She's really the only one we trust with that kind of responsibility. We don't know where it came from, but she has an uncanny knack for choosing clothing for people. And books. Well, and everything else, too, come to think. Dylan got us an amazing e-reader, which is already getting lots of use. I mentioned that I had made some personalized tote bags for some people, and Rachel is seen here posing with hers (and some lovely ribbon-hair). Dylan is working out some serious ninja moves (so common on the snowboard slopes) in his new outerwear.
Next post: more Christmas...
