My Christmas

I had a good Christmas. On Christmas Eve I went to church in the morning. I served. I was supposed to be the only server, but then one of my friends from Work Camp and her sister showed up and helped me. When my mom and I got home we had lunch and then prepared for the Christmas Eve dinner (bbq from Famous Dave's) by cleaning. My granparents and uncle came in the mid-afternoon, and then we had cocktails and dinner. My mom had to leave the festivities early because she is in the choir that had the 10 pm midnight mass.

Christmas morning I went to church. I served again, but this time there were two other scheduled servers, who both showed up. They were both high schoolers. One of them goes to Chantilly. People that go to Chantilly but go to St. Thomas a Becket are few and far between. It is always interesting when I come across those few people. Anyway, after church we had lunch and then my mom had to wrap two final presents. We then went to my grandparents' house. We were there well in advance of my uncle. Once my uncle arrived we opened presents. I brought all of my presents from Santa (that's what I call my mom - I don't still believe that Santa is an actual person). I got an iPod and docking station/speakers, a brown (fall) Fossil purse, and a bunch of clothes and jewelry.

Yesterday my dad started to set up my iPod docking station. He was running the vaccum cleaner and I was going to download the iTunes software when a bunch of the outlets in my room stopped working. My dad had to stop what he was doing and test out all of the outlets. We even had to move my desk, which was a pain because of all the stuff I have on it. Then, my mom just happened to be in the room that shares a wall with my room. She thought that perhaps the problem was in that room. Lo and behold, when she put in my nightlight to test the outlet, the lamp in the next outlet over turned on. So, my dad figured out which outlet it was, but there was one small problem. The main room light was on the same circuit as those outlets so he couldn't do anything because it was after dark. I put some music on my iPod.

Today we did some more cleaning, and my dad fixed the electrical problem. My mom made the lasagne that we are going to have tomorrow night. I figured out my iTunes account and bought a couple songs that I knew I didn't have on CD.

Tomorrow I have to bake cookies, change my bed, and blow up/put bedding on two air mattresses. I have to do all this because my other set of granparents and my aunt/uncle (dad's sister and brother-in-law) and cousin are coming tomorrow so there will be more people than beds. That has never happened before in this house! My grandparents on my mom's side are coming to dinner, as well as my uncle (my mom's brother). It will be very weird to have both sets of grandparents under my roof at the same time. I am excited to see my cousin - she is 6 years old.

I guess that's it.

BCR