Up to Date
After falling behind for almost a week I can happily say that with this entry I am now up to date for the first time in a long time. I know that I will fall terribly behind again with the road trips to St Louis and Chicago coming up but I’ll celebrate this little achievement while I can.
There was a hangover for all 4 of us on Monday thanks to the weekend we had had so the entire day didn’t amount to anything of great excitement. A little playing, a little tossing Luc into the air and little bits of not much else. Just the ingredient required for a charging of the batteries.
Tuesday had me writing, editing pictures and posting madly whilst Kelly took Ben birthday and Christmas shopping. Yes Ben’s birthday is next, on Christmas eve in fact, so he’s really starting to get excited about both. This time of the year, having 4 birthdays and Christmas all within 5 weeks of each other sure does make for some interesting time management decisions.
As for yesterday it was back to Barnes and Noble for a play and story time. I love it that kids go crazy for books. I’m not a big reader myself, apart from the Press Gazette, Packer Plus, the Packer Report and packers.com of course but our kids’ll read anything with big beautiful pictures and countless flaps to open.
Inspired by this card we recieved today from Kel’s Mum i thought i’d right a little about the differences between here and home at the moment.
The single biggest change for us is the lead up to Christmas. Back home, thanks to Christmas being in the heat of summer, December is really a wrap up month. You get everything done by the last Friday before the big day then take 4 weeks off work to enjoy the season, the outside, the beaches and everything we have to offer. It’s like your whole world winds up for 8 weeks and you let it all hang out after that.
You prepare your yard, clean the pool, make sure the TV is ready for copious amounts of cricket and get the barbie out for its illustrious return to prominence. Shorts, t-shirts, speedos and sun cream are all at the ready and you sweat getting in and out of your car on your many trips to the shops.
Here, apart from the obvious it’s all about the cold, the snow and Frosty the Snowman. Kelly and I watched that movie every year as kids but it’s very different to being in a book store today, here in the white of a wintery Green Bay Wisconsin than it is back home. Watching a movie or reading a book about a snowman is tough when it’s 9 in the evening, the sun is only just beginning to go down, it’s 95 degrees outside and your being eaten alive by one mozzie after another.
