Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

Or more to the point, what day it is. It's like we had a week of Sundays here. It's very disorienting.

So we went to the ILs for Christmas. It was not a big gift year, but it was just right. I hope the MIL decides never to do actual shopping again, and just stuff some cash in envelopes and hand that out. The fun thing this year was that the big gifts were for them, the MIL and the FIL. The kids gave them the portrait they had done at Sears, and on cue, the MIL misted all up. It was really great, she just loved it. And she hadn't had the chance to shop for the FIL, but he had asked his daughter (my SIL) to pick out a nice piece of jewelery, so the MIL got to cry at that too.)

The FIL really looked great, and very healthy. He did lose a ton of weight -- certainly over 100 pounds -- but after a few minutes of thinking that he looked different, he just looked like himself, only smaller. It really gave me a great deal of hope that they will be able to move, hopefully by this summer, to that wonderful community that is much closer to us. If we never have to spend another Christmas on the New Jersey Turnpike or the Garden State Parkway, that will be gift enough for us for the rest of our lives.

Yesterday was a very lazy day for me, although I did do tons of laundry. I finished it today, since K is at work and we're not competing for the machines. It's not all put away, but it is all folded and neatly stacked, which is to say, not sitting in a laundry basket for the next two weeks (a la my last load of laundry.) All I have left to fold and put away are the napkins and tablecloth, which are in the dryer.

I've decided to stop using my notify list; I hope that isn't a problem for all three people who are on it, but I've been posting a lot from my phone lately, and I can't do the list from there. Most people, I think, are using RSS feeders these days. I'll take the button off the page in a bit, but someone actually just asked to join the list, so I'm sorry to say I won't be adding you since I won't be sending out notifies anymore.

My remaining chore for the day is to wrap up leftovers for freezing, so I best get to it before the nap monster takes over completely.