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| Early Morning Walk/Run |
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| Halle and Her Dad |
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| Hayden in Her Green Room |
Drew and I are the only one's up and it's just short of 7:00, late for both of us. We made the mistake of starting to talk about politics, never a good idea though neither one of us ( I think) are irrational but we tend to disagree at some things. It's probably good to get a different point of view and Drew has made me see more clearly on that the gun control issue is very complicated. Clearly, since he is in the military, he is surrounded by gun enthusiasts, but also one's who have been trained, know how dangerous guns are and usually handle them with care. Halle just got up, so we will have to continue our discussions later.
She's excited about her new friend, Elf, the latest gimmick for Christmas. Each night Elf hides in a new place, and leaves a message for Halle. His purpose is to assess whether Halle has been a good girl or not during the day. She leaves out a snack for him and is quite excited when she finds him each morning. Yesterday, he was a bad boy and spilled flour all over the kitchen table. Tommy's daughter, Marlena, also has an elf and loves finding him, too.
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| Halle with her Hanging Elf |
Yesterday we took it easy, especially Evie who is getting better but tires easily. Mid morning Jill and I went out for a brisk walk with Coco and Drew went running with a buddy. In the afternoon, Jill and I did some shopping in a picturesque little town, about twenty five minutes away, called Warrenton. It was a mistake, however, to be on the roads around here as every high way was crowded, backed up in many cases. Jill picked up a gift card for her sister in law, and we walked around the town, lots of older, quaint looking buildings but none of the shops interested us much. We did stop for a couple of lattes at a coffee/tea shop. We then went to a palatial Wegmans, which makes our Lakewood Wegman's look like a dump. Most of the aisles were so crowded with shoppers that you literall y needed a traffic cop to get through. We picked up lots of goodies for the next couple of days and went home. While we were gone, Evie and the girls put together the dough for roll out Christmas cookies, our task for today...making lots of Christmas cookies. In fact, its tradition for Drew to make six different kinds of cookies at Christmas; we all start helping him today. He's currently making a list of all the items he will need, then off to the store.
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| With Coco |
We had a great, easy dinner of chicken boursin, basically chicken breasts in a wine and Boursin cheese sauce over rice, with a salad. Jill made a special vodka, cranberry, and pomegranate drink before dinner, which was just the thing for a sore throat, or so we thought. We then relaxed after dinner, played on our gadgets, watched some TV and we were all in bed, tired from the day, by 10:00
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