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so this is christmas
By heather | December 22, 2009
For the first time ever, I am so totally and competely ready for Christmas, and have been for almost a week.
Presents bought (and WRAPPED!) – check.
Cookies baked – check.
Cards sent – check.
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| The annual card, name blurred to prevent identity theft…ha. |
Obligatory miserable visit to Santa – check…
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| Seconds before EK’s meltdown…Alex’s meltdown occurred before leaving for the mall, and thus he wasn’t allowed to go. |
…and check.
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| Emily Kate: Seriously, again? What is it with this guy? Alex: Missing this was my punishment? Har har. |
All ye mad holiday shoppers who are crowding Target and the drugstore in search of last minute gifts, take note:
Taking a week off work right after Thanksgiving to go visit grandparents who are then obligated to provide free babysitting while you do your Christmas-relevant stuff is the way to get it done before everyone else freaks out and starts clogging the roads near the mall, and lining up for parking spaces at the post office.
So given my lack of urgent, last minute, must-complete-to-have-perfect-Christmas tasks, yesterday afternoon we took the kids to the new Christmastown at Busch Gardens.
First off, props to BG for being all politically incorrect and actually calling it “Christmastown” – since this is the first year for it, I’ll be interested to see if it stays “Christmastown” and doesn’t mutate into “Holly-dazzle Christmakuhwanzaa” or some such nonsense.
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First impression: Magical! Look at the lights! And Sesame Street! Whee!
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Second impression: COLD. I have totally lost whatever mojo it was that used to make me wait for the bus on dark 10 degree winter mornings in Upstate NY with my coat unzipped and no hat or mittens.
Alex had fun – big, gigantic fun that included riding the kiddy airplanes and the choo-choo, meeting Elmo, skipping his way uphill for approximately 2 miles of hilly terrain, drinking his first ever hot chocolate (heretofore renamed as liquid crack for toddlers), and talking a running commentary that didn’t stop until he crashed into bed 90 minutes past bedtime.
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Emily Kate had…some fun. She and I enjoyed it but got cold and over it at approximately the same moment, which occurred before Alex rode the planes and visited the penguins and just prior to me no longer being able to feel my face.
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By the end of the night that blanket around her legs was around her face and all you could see were her eyes as she glared at us through tiny slits.
Brett skipped around with no hat or gloves babbling about skiing in an attempt to prove that he is still from Pennsylvania, yo, and we don’t get cold like these weak Southerners.
Final impression: if I hear one more note of ”Let It Snow”, I am going to barf. Also, I am dizzily confused walking around in semi-darkness with a million blinking lights all around me. If it were up to me to navigate my way out of the park, something I have a hard time doing in daylight, I would probably have been found this morning curled up in a ball whimpering somewhere about strobe lights and elves.
Merry Christmas!
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December 22nd, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Well since you’re all done can you come over and help me? Cuz I am no where near done and we start traveling two days from now, eeeek!
Merry Christmas!!
December 28th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
wow, that picture on santa’s lap is one for the ages. you need to break that out during the teenage years.
cheers,
emma
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