and if you didn't catch it on reddit, i found this non-christmas story/song most enjoyable:

whoa whoa whoa, we are way behind on the christmas spiriting

here's a trifecta to get caught up:
andy williams

bruce springsteen

jose feliciano

the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning OR an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.

thanks texas! i'm thinking the grill will be fired up this weekend.

how ironic

It definitely feels like an Illinois winter this morning.

Brr...feels like an Illinois winter this morning. The humidity must be at least 40%.

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I tried this approach, but they keep resending the bills.

I just throw everything away, that way I know I don't have it. Zero time spent looking.

Nice school concert tonight.
Finally got our Christmas cards, then I had to look for the school picture to send out with them. I love looking for STUFF around the house.

Also, one delicious pumpkin pie was made in the process,... so that rocks.

Second surgery a success, just need to finish up with all the drops now and a couple more check-ups and it'll be over.

package for Nico arrived. He's going to love it!!!

Thanks NO and EO I saved to a pdf file and printed from there and it all came out okay. The formatting was off, but at least all the information was included.

i'd suggest cutting the bits out about the two youngest. letter should fit on the page then.

last time I printed something from google, there was a special print button on the page I had to use. If I printed from the browser it was messed up. But that was on google maps, so your mileage may vary.

maybe the free software was OpenOffice?

Anyone have much experience using google docs who can help me?
I have my Christmas letter on it. It looks great on the
computer but doesn't all print out, only about 3/4s of the
front page prints. Any suggestions?

Or which was the free office suite you put on my laptop Eric?

That's merel's former host family. She watched after the kids when she was first here. The mother is Dutch so they were opening presents on Sinter Klaas night.

Pittsburgh priority parcel with the profit projections passed to Pete Porter in Pasadena.

Kennel Christmas is January 8th.

Received a package. anyone want to lay claim and let me know if I need to open it or carry it on to Merel? You can just email me if you don't want to post here. Apologies if you told me already.

can you please remind me when the Kennel Christmas is?

I thought the answer for how long was... when we get done singing christmas carols. But maybe the two were just highly correlated.

the answer is 350 F for 20-30 m

how long and how hot do the cinnamon rolls need to bake?

wow! I have such talented grandkids!

Well, I guess it was too much singing. She fainted in chorus this morning at school. Have to slow down this week, but I'm not sure that is possible.

After just the first few seconds I was loving the performances and impressed. Nice job Daniela and Thomas! Thanks for helping me get in the Christmas mood.

let's see if this works.
Merry Christmas

Daniela Violin

Thomas Piano

Yeah Kamden, great stair crawling!

Went to Vespers at Millikin University with Cheryl McCue and
Karen Edgecomb. Good Christmas music, really getting into the
Christmas spirit.

Celtic Thunder got me in the Christmas spirit with the first 1/2 of their show then did an odd mix of music for the second 1/2 that included All God's Critters.

Mom we have recitals all day. I will call another.

I say Payton likes pancakes because hers are all gone. Really though, knowing both girls, Lauren actually likes them better.