interlude

just a little tease of snow

the real snow

Our snowy family interlude is over....Charlie's family came for Thanksgiving and were greeted by our first snowstorm of the season. Exciting if you don't have to leave the house, not so much if you have to pick up your parents at the airport on a hugely busy day when the entire city has gone snow-mad. With reason this time at least. Usually it's a general "sweet nellie, one inch of snow!" hand waving, but this time there were full on slow-motion ballets of cars smashing into one another, impassable hills, and traffic traffic traffic. It took them most of the evening to get home but thanks to the Yeti with his snow tires it was accomplished. That car once again earned his keep, getting us in and out of our unplowed and iced over neighborhood to pick up Charlie's sister and niece from the airport.
The Yeti got pressed into service one more time on Thanksgiving. Our friends had to park at the beginning of our neighborhood and I drove down and ferried them up to the house. We enjoyed a frenzy of food and kids.

I have mastered the double baby carry. They are a little cramped and there's some complaining, but it's two babies hands-free! And what's that in the background?

Then there were people holding babies, feeding babies, wandering around the mall and people watching on black friday, the fireplace always going, and Christmas being allowed to unfurl in the house. We have a strict no-holiday rule that releases on the day after Thanksgiving. We both love the holidays so much that it's hard to wait sometimes. Then on friday morning, the huge holiday playlist was accessed on the ipod, I put on socks with candy canes on them, and we went to pick out a tree.

Yay! Let Christmas 2010 begin!