It's 0930, and Nathan has abandoned us to "go Christmas Shopping" or some such malarkey. It's snowing out. There's ice on the roads but more dangerously there are other drivers who don't know what the hell they're doing on the roads. And most aggravating of all, my son's heavy winter mittens
and regular fuzzy mittens have
both been left at daycare, so we can't play outside longer than the ten minutes it took for his hands to go cherry red.
We're currently considering our options, which right now looks a whole lot like me reading
Bunnies!!! over and over again. (Which, don't get me wrong- I do love that book, but I made the mistake of giving the monster a Very Specific Voice, and it
does wear on my throat.)
Suddenly, Isis's head comes up- and then there's a knock at the door, the sort of knock that means Something Interesting on the front porch. Perhaps the book I ordered for my mom over a week ago? Isis lets loose her snarling "big girl voice" and charges for the window, following it up with agitated whining, just in case we missed the frantic-scrambling-sounds of the mailman diving for safety.
I grab her collar, open the door (yell, "Thank you!" to the poor man) and look down to discover that it's not
for my mom- it's
from her! Hooray! Mom has rescued us from our burgeoning boredom by delivering up the unadulterated joy of diving into a large package full of gifts and goodies!
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| Okay let's do this! |
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| The first level: full of tissue-wrapped, "It's okay to tear into them RIGHT NOW" parcels. |
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| Level two: now we come to the Real Deal. These are Presents for Under the Tree, people. |
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| (and edible goodies, both home-baked and bought-from-the-German-deli) |
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| Neeps, of course, is THRILLED that Oma sent him a package of tissue paper to destroy. |
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| And a box to sit in. |
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| No, Neeps! I won't ship you back to Oma! |
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