our christmas

We are very lucky to live only 15 minutes away from Carl's parents house and that is where we spent Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and part of the day after. It was nice not having to rush anywhere, having my mom-in-law cooking delicious food, and getting to relax as much as I wanted to. Christmas Eve Carl, Beth, Bill and I went to the MOA, after i had a three-hour glucose test in the morning. It came back negative for Gest. Diabetes. YEAH, but I had to fast before it and by the time it had ended I had not eaten in about 18 hours so I was hungry. Carl solved that problem with sandwiches from Jimmy John's then off to the mall we went. We all were feeling less spirit this year. I couldn't ride any rides and no one seemed to really want to shop so after we made the rounds of each floor we left. That still took us about four hours since it is the MOA.
That evening we had appetizers for dinner that Mary had made in our absence and watched Batman on Bill's new HUGE television with Blu-ray player. It was amazingly clear and one could not stop looking at it but i still fell asleep halfway through, after wrapping all my gifts.
The next morning I was the second one up, Bill being the first. We sat around quietly looking at magazines until the rest of the crew woke up. Mary made breakfast while the rest of us slowly got ourselves situated. Once we had some coffee, decaf for me, we got started on opening gifts. It lasted for a good hour or two, we even stopped halfway through to eat breakfast then continued. I apparently had the most gifts including a panini grill and a blender; gifts for the kitchen but also gifts i really wanted. I was really excited to give Carl his gift. I had gone through the trouble of buying it in Logan where i found it for a good sale price that was offset by the shipping costs to Minneapolis, and i didn't get the rebate in on time so i lost t $30 more dollars, but i was still really excited about it and the fact that Carl had no idea he had it coming to him. He hadn't even asked for it this year because he was so disappointed in wanting it last year and not getting it. Anyway, when he opened his gift I was the excited one. It was a new Blu-ray DVD player for him. He was pretty happy to know that he would be able to get rid of the current DVD player that he had received free when he test-drove a car many years ago, and needed to be updated.