Bacon Perfume

Christmas was great this year, with plenty of food, no one terribly sick (Jim was recovering from a cold,) and the usual delicious treats. TOO MANY treats this year!




One of Jim's birthday gifts was a Snuggie.










Darrell set up some race cars in the family room, that was fun.



Razor scooters were the big hit with all 5 ambulatory grandkids. They took them out right after we ate our Christmas brunch.
Later, as Aubrey and her girls were packing up their things to leave, 4 yr old Whitney asked, "Mom, can I ride my scooter all the way home?" Aubrey laughed hard over that, it's about 20 miles.

Favorite quotes from Christmas and a few days before: Dani said it was nice waking to the smell of bacon cooking, it reminds her of my dad's house - I find that a great compliment somehow. I suppose it's not so much a complement to me, it's actually a way of expressing great memories of staying at my parents' house. We LOVE my dad's great breakfasts!

While dressing, Chelsea said to Dani, "Great, now we are going to smell like bacon at Church." "Yeah, doesn't it smell great! Mom started cooking early. You know, I bet if we'd had some Bacon Perfume, we'd be married by now!"

The grandkids have a game. "Jonah, we are going upstairs to play Lazy Teenagers... what do you want to be? "
As he followed them upstairs he said, "I'm the oldest brother!" We think it's basically the 'Family' game they always play, but they've renamed it for some reason.... we aren't sure where Lazy Teenagers came from; anyone out there know?

Me, while trying to use my Cutco scissors to cut something awkward,
"Yikes! Ow, ow, OW! I cut my finger!!"
Jemma asked calmly, "Off?"
(luckily I was wrong, it was just a pinch.

Jemma and Brenda had a girl night, and watched The Sound of Music all the way through. Jemma asked about the naughties. "Oh, you mean the nazis? Yes they were very bad. " "Well, what did the Naughties do that was so naughty?" Brenda gave up, she wasn't going to explain all the atrocities the Nazis did that made them naughty.

As brunch ended, we were groaning that we'd eaten so much... We always celebrate Jim's birthday (the 24th) with a big dinner. Then we do even more feasting Christmas morning. We were definitely stuffed!
One of the girls suggested they do some sort of juice cleanse in the coming weeks, and I threw out there that I was having a 'medically induced' cleanse myself.
I told them, "And when the doc said, 'We are scheduling appointments for January', I was like, "That would be just PERFECT after all the holiday food."
So Dani cracked up the whole table when she added,
"And Doc, don't judge me for what you find in there."