Happy New Year! We went to sleep and woke up to snow!
To celebrate New Year’s Eve, we made homemade sushi and read Dr. Seuss and drank Retro Soda and then the kids decked themselves out appropriately to play in the snow. Minutes after going outside, calamity struck in the form of Lacy pelting Trenton in the face with a snowball.
He choked on it, gagged and then barfed.
Lacy felt horrible about it and Trent will probably not eat sushi for a very long time.
So, how was your New Year’s Eve?
Today’s Christmas short involves one of my favorite Christmas movies, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Are you familiar with it? With George and Mary?
Danny isn’t the biggest fan of old movies, but I’ve converted him to a few. It’s a Wonderful Life is one we can watch over and over.
Danny’s favorite part:
I don’t have a favorite. And by that I mean, there’s not enough room in a post that uses the word “short” in it’s title to post every one of my favorite parts of It’s a Wonderful Life, so I’ll just focus on the one this post is actually about:
Christmas morning, we unwrapped presents one by one. Danny was in charge of who got what present and when… he was being pretty fussy about it. I couldn’t figure out why until my turn came to open a present and he handed me a tiny lego man with twine tied to his hand:
Danny told me to pull on the twine, and as I did, I could see it was coiled up and attached to a gift:
Inside the present was a necklace with a note:
Trent saw it and did his best George Bailey impressions, “Whaddaya want, do ya want the moon, Mary?”
And I gotta say, it was pretty dead on.
For Christmas, I was given a lassoed moon. That makes life pretty wonderful in my book.
(“Alice, no -stay! Go back, we’re taking a picture! SMILE! Look at Mom! Where’s Mom’s nose? Look at me, Alice! ALICE! Oh, I give up…”)
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