~ Christmas Eve gift opening begins ~

Monday, Dec. 27, 2004
7 p.m.

You know I love ya, but I have only a half hour to shower, change, and hit the road. We're heading for Winfield to spend the evening with Gloria and Roy, and will spend the night there. If I don't wangle out of it tomorrow, Gloria and I are going cross-country skiing.

While Dad, Scott, and my brother-in-law Dick went to the airport to pick up my brother Cameron on Christmas Eve, we gals played a few rounds of Scattergories. Above is my ma, myself, and my beautiful sisters. I'm the one behind the chair, trying to be like the old woman who, as Isabelle Allende wrote in a book I just started reading, Portrait in Sepia, was "happily counting her wrinkles."

~ my niece Danielle, and Dad and Mom ~

~ me and my #1 son ~

And now we must hustle.

xoxo
etc
Kate