My house is quiet, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to write a blog post, something I have not attended to in a couple weeks!

Like a lot of you, the last week was probably full of Christmas preparation and family and then the holiday itself, which, for me, passed by all-too-quickly.  My children are growing up—one got her driver’s license this year and is, at the moment, driving her and her sister around town delivering newspapers.  They are both very independent.  When they were small, they’d always be hanging around me and I craved alone time that wasn’t available to me then; now, I go in search of them, calling them from their rooms, inviting them to watch something on tv or DVD, reminding them it’s time to sit down at the table for supper (a habit we began sixteen years ago and continue) or creating a family event such as going to the mall or playing Monopoly.

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I don’t know its technical name, but there is an amusement ride commonly found at fairs that I refer to as The Boat.  The boat slowly begins swinging left and then right in a regular motion that is wider and wider with every swing, subjecting the occupants to a stomach-dropping experience with each downward pass.  If you have chosen the end seats, the drop is all the more fantastic (or vomit-inducing, depending on your experience!).

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I like to Christmas shop early in the season—November is best but early December is also okay.  Mostly this is because of my deep aversion to crowds and my tendency toward a condition I call “cart rage” (symptoms include severe impatience and a nearly uncontrollable urge to ram my cart through slow-moving people).

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