December 13, 2007
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Big Events
Some major, major events have occurred since yesterday. Due to the need to control the information, I am only releasing it via my xanga’s protected posting system. If you aren’t on it and are not a family member, send me a note and I’ll see about adding you. Take no offense if I can’t- I put names on a dart board and you know, sometimes I hit it and sometimes I just hit the wall.
Christmas
I can say that for Christmas it looks like, right now, we will be leaving Sunday the 23ish (the day before Christmas Eve) for Tennessee and, due to Katrina’s job and the fact we just cannot afford for her to miss work and life has taken a lot of sick/holiday (they equate at her job) out of her… we’re leaving back on Christmas day afternoon/evening. We’ll sadly miss the biggest get-together of my Dad’s side of the family, but what can you do?
We haven’t had any real debates about spending this Christmas that I know of, mainly because we have two really solid reasons why we are doing what we are doing. 1) We can’t go visiting much because Katrina only has a few paid sick/holiday days left that have to last at least half a year (!!). So people really have to come to us or else, as Kat says, “Tough titty said the kitty but the milk tastes fine”. 2) We are going to see my Dad’s side of the family in TN (this includes my Dad’s Mother, his sister, and a huge chunk of the family including my Aunt’s two daughters, and their many children). I have not gone to visit them since I was… maybe 15 years old? Since before my paternal grandfather died (or even got sick- I never saw him while he was sick). Katrina and I have never visited, and thus Conor has never visited- and none of them have ever even seen Conor except in pictures. Add to that the fact that Mamaw (paternal grandmother) has unstable health and is in her 80′s I believe. So that’s a pretty clear trump card- family likes to argue over ‘who has the best reasons to get visited for this holiday’, but I don’t think anyone beats these by a longshot.
And in the end, it’s our family: we have to make the best choices we both can so that we enjoy the holidays and we feel we have been able to share time with a variety of many, many family members.
More to come
As I said, more to come on the protect post. Thanks for reading.
-Patrick