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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nI hope the past few days have been filled with love, laughter and kindness.<\/p>\n
We’ve had a lot of all three, though kindness certainly doesn’t come easy for me these days. I’m way too much of a grouch.<\/p>\n
Mike scored big time in the gift giving department this year. We’re going to the George Strait\/Reba concert in January!!!<\/p>\n
The funny thing is, he had to tell me to keep Jan 22 open last week when I was looking at my calendar for the month. I immediately began to ask what we were doing and my first suggestion was going to the concert. I didn’t even know if the concert was happening on that date and I sure as hell didn’t believe that he would actually A) know about it and B) get tickets. He is not a country fan.<\/p>\n
I also got a ring, a couple of movies and a couple of books. And George Strait’s latest CD. Whoo-hoo! I scored big time.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure Mike was so lucky. He got a really nice framed photo of some stars. I got it at a local art festival. It was really hard to pick because I knew something outer-spacey would be cool, but I have no idea what constellations Mike likes best. Do you know your significant other’s favorite constellation? <\/p>\n
Erik got a bunch of toys, none worth writing about. His favorite gift? This weird penguin game that he picked out for Mike. Poor Mike. I let Erik pick out presents for Mike. He liked all kinds of stuffed animals and toys, but I limited him to a couple of games that could be for the whole family. He was not too impressed with his big gift of building panels<\/a>, which makes me sad. I was sure it would be a hit. I know nothing.<\/p>\n Erik has been so excited about Christmas that he ended up stripping naked during Christmas Eve dinner and throwing his shirt in my food. Nothing like a major time out and a mommy temper tantrum to spread the Christmas joy.<\/p>\n Second before total meltdown.<\/p>\n Anyway, I hope you all have a good week. Not sure how much internet access I will have while I’m gone. I’m not taking my laptop since I don’t want to fry it with the 220 voltage, even though we have plug converter things. Even if I took it, I doubt there are any neighborly wireless waves floating around the farm. That would require neighbors. <\/p>\n Question for those in the know: How did Buddy the Elf end up at the North Pole? I’ve seen snippets of this movie a million times, but have never seen the whole thing.<\/p>\n Now we are just running all our laundry in anticipation of our trip tomorrow. We leave for Sweden! Eeeeek! I am so not ready for this. I am also coming down with cold, which is just fabulous for travelling. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I hope the past few days have been filled with love, laughter and kindness. We’ve had a lot of all three, though kindness certainly doesn’t come easy for me these days. I’m way too much of a grouch. Mike scored big time in the gift giving department this year. We’re going to the George Strait\/Reba […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Best](\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2679\/4214870408_d6d7454270.jpg\")
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\nWe had a really good afternoon with our friends. The boys fought a little, but after we got some food in them they did a lot better. What else to say? Nothing much.<\/p>\n![\"Christmas](\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2485\/4214870156_8abd6dc4be.jpg\")
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