December 24th, 2005

happy christmas eve!

Santa breakfast = adults in costume performing plays (Frosty, Rudolph, Santa, cowgirls and a cowboy) and little children going apeshit over all of the above. I can’t wait to get the pictures from my cousin, lol.

After that we had lunch with a very old friend—mmm, sushi—shopped and came home, where we proceeded to make cornbread stuffing, pecan pie and cranberry salad. (Presents were wrapped, too.)

I was going to sleep in, but the Man woke me at 10:30… to tell me that it’ll be less than a week. 🙂 🙂 So now I’m up, drinking coffee, and trying to figure out how to handle an impossible (because it’s Christmas Eve, shit) task.

For several years (at least 10), my dad has made ornaments for my sister, mom and I. He always waits until Christmas Eve (no other time), and they’re always imaginative and silly and they landmark a specific thing that happened to us that year. For instance, when I was 12 I got my braces off and he went to the doctor (his buddy), got my old braces and made an ornament. (Yes, they were clean. Shut it.)

There are also many, many Jeeps on the tree… for the years my sister hit a schoolbus, a guardrail, another car.. and the time I hit my mom’s car. Anyway… for the past three or so years, my mom and I have been trying to make my dad one as well.

This year I was going to get a diecast model of his Jeep, attach the year, bill of sale (miniaturized—love computers!), etc., and hang that on the tree. (Christmas morning we all have to hunt amongst the branches to find what we believe is our particular ornament.)

But then I remembered that his mom passed away earlier this year (a year is a long time, give me a break), so now I’m flummoxed. I can’t get anything engraved (we did that the year my Nana died), and I don’t know what I would get to symbolize her anyway.

I’m heading to the hobby shop, hoping something will jump at me.

Have a lovely Christmas Eve everyone. 🙂