Christmas sorta starts today for our family. Its the lovely Diane's (my wife's)birthday. OUr tradition is that no matter what day her birthday is, we do not work and we shop together for her birthday gifts and some trinkets for the girls.
This year that includes me learning to download MIley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Michael Jackson and SpongeBob SquarePants songs into three separate IPOD's. So far this morninng not going to successfully.
Later (its snowing like crazy here) we always go to her favorite restaurant outside of Red Bank NJ.
Christmas Eve is with family in New York. Christmas Day is here at our house so the getting ready starts tomorrow. "Cousins Christmas" when my brothers kids and my sister in laws kids get together with my girls is December 27. Every other year it is in BOston this year it's in NY. THat's my favorit e day. I just sit back and watch the young ones get along and their grandmother, my Mom, seems to be the hero of the day. All girls and one boy so they gravitat toward grandma like she's a rock star. Oh yeah Christmas is her birthday too
Two days after that we head off to Hershey PA for a Christmas/ New Years Eve get together with some friends at the Hershey Lodge. Diane started all of these little traditions for the family and the girls when they were 1 and the pictures from year to year are a marvel.
SO the next 12 days are chaos and joyous and family filled.
