Boxing Day

This is what the driveway looked like this morning. So we had to do a furious half an hour of shoveling so that we could get out to go to the airport to pick up Grammy.


Here we are picking up Grammy.

xmas 2008

Craig and baby Zach


Handsome Craig



Mainly Sam


Jerry, Catherine and Ellen

Some picture of Christmas dinner taken with my new digital camera!

My personal handyman

Here is how we spent most of Saturday.

flexibility newsflash

Today after Bikram and painting some more of the interminable swathes of wall in our house I took a shower. And, guess what? I could touch my toes. I know, bad visual, but it has been years since I was able to do that.

mom for a night

My Christmas present to Ellen was the offer to spend the night at her house so that she could get a full night's sleep. Last night was the night. It was quite lovely. Zack (pictured in entry below) is a chunkster of a baby with a sweet temperament. He was up for a bottle at about 12:30 and again a little after 5am. At that point he was quite awake so we wandered about looking for some toys. Once we got out of his room and into the breaking light of dawn, I think he finally realized I was not one of his people. He kept craning himself backwards so as to get a better look at me. Very cute. Then we went into the room where I had been sleeping (Ellen and Jerry's room) and he truly looked perplexed as we got into the bed to play and there was no sign of the parental units. They were downstairs in Lars' room with ear plugs in. We played for awhile and then both fell asleep until 7:30. It was actually quite fun (I know, that's because I can go home!), so I told Ellen I would do it again sometime.