It has been a LONG 24 hours. We celebrated with his family last night, closed our eyes for a few minutes and then flew to Arizona this morning. Somehow while we were traveling, morning turned to afternoon and then evening so here we are in the dark. We had dinner and then played this year's Christmas present game - "Minute To Win It Christmas Edition." We picked up candy canes using chopsticks and ribbons, shook jingle bells out of a tissue box on our back, put bags of Hershey kisses in order by weight without looking inside, and tried to swing red pom poms to our nose but that one didn't work.
My mother was very surprised with her special present - it was a toy train that she thought got lost in the moves but it was safe in my Aunt & Uncle's garage the whole time.
The picture is of a small neighborhood in my mother's Christmas house village. This is "Ralphie's neighborhood" from A Christmas Story. (Not pictured, the department store with the scary Santa & slide.) The mini leg lamp was one of my best Christmas present finds ever, back in college I think, just before the movie got super big. We set it up in the window for her while she was out one night. Now it's the centerpiece of Christmas village.
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