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Tuesday, December 26, 2023 We played new games after supper. Yay. We got a Christmas trivia game that was really fun. We played a bunch of times, and it was always so easy to answer everyone’s questions but your own. There was a charades component – Benjin got candy cane, Alexander got boot, and I […]

Monday, December 25, 2023 We did a lot of splendid giving and receiving today. Alexander outdid himself and made me a cool shadow box of the three homes we have had, as well as a fun Etsy tree decoration and a build-your-own cardboard Disneyland. Benjamin and Sean always come up with great gifts – I

Sunday, December 24, 2023 We had a nice drive home from Waukesha. Not too many cars on the road, no rain, Christmas music playing, and periodic naps for me. We stopped in Eau Claire and picked up a pizza from Rocky Rococo for dinner tomorrow night. What good planning! I asked Alexander a few weeks

Saturday, December 23, 2023 We had to travel to Waukesha to have a White Christmas (White is my family name, if you didn’t know) and that is the best kind of white Christmas. My sister invited me a couple weeks ago to the holiday family dinner she was having. She said she knew we couldn’t

Friday, December 22, 2023 Last week, our niece Rebecca texted and said she would like to connect with us while she is visiting Madison from Seattle for the holidays. We said okay! We got up and drove to Madison. We had lunch with both of Keith’s sisters, one brother-in-law, two nephews, and Rebecca. We had

Thursday, December 21, 2023 It was the last day of school and I hung out with kindergarteners and first graders, which was pretty much fun. They were completely oblivious as to what winter break is, but the teachers talked about it constantly, so it must be something. We went to see the Broadway tour of

Wednesday, December 20, 2023 I kinda love that we are always going to things that we don’t know what they are. We find a theater and look at the series and say, “sure, why not?” We were driving to the Lyric Arts theater tonight and Keith asked, “What do we know about Kat Perkins other

Tuesday, December 19, 2023 We went to see The Lakeshore Player’s production of She Loves Me tonight. They are in White Bear Lake at a wonderful venue called the Hanifl Performing Arts Center. It is a new place for us and they put on a really good show. The cast was strong, the orchestra was

Monday, December 18, 2023 We don’t actually wrap. We have reusable boxes that we just wrap with curling ribbon to keep them closed. Each kid gets a different color ribbon every year, so they don’t know whose is whose until Christmas morning. There is very little to throw away after unwrapping, and it takes a

Sunday, December 17, 2023 We saw on the neighborhood news last night that today was Pei Wei’s (local Chinese food place – a fast version from PF Chang) last day. Alexander had recently come across a forgotten gift card and we were feeling lucky to have heard the news in time to use it. To