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My thoughts released; a mind set free |
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These pages contain my thoughts, from meandering ideas and persuasions to deep cerebrations and serious mentations. Why, for what purpose? To release my mind and set creativity free. Somewhere inside the constraints of my mind dwells a writer, a poet, an artist who paints with words. In here I release those constraints and set the artist free. Perhaps, lost somewhere in the depths of thought, is a story or a poem, waiting to be written. 
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| It's officially Christmas but still my Christmas Eve. I'm waiting for the youngest girl to fall asleep so Santa can come and do his thing, then it's off to bed; it's been a long day. It's also been a good day for all of us. Well except for the girls playing a game that left them with upset stomachs. We have tried a few different things for Christmas Eve, the first year they were with us, we let them open a gift after dinner. Last year they opened a few gifts on Christmas Eve and this year we let them start opening gifts after lunch, spacing it out through the day. It's been a tradition in my family to open gifts from each other on Christmas Eve, but on my wife's side, they waited till Christmas morning. However, most of her family now does Christmas at home on Christmas Eve, then we all get together at my mother-in-law's Christmas day. That's how we ended up letting the girls open gifts the night before. Then, on Christmas morning, they open gifts left by Santa. This year, instead of waiting through the day, we decided to let them space it out through the day. They enjoyed it, they had lots of time to enjoy each new gift, and I think we may have found a new tradition to share with them. Of course, know we are going to do it this way would work well if we numbered the gifts so they open them in a specific order; it would be fun to pick out something for them to open first thing in the morning, maybe some games after lunch, and so on. Oh, I must go back to the game that upset their stomachs, Pour Taste. It involves filling small glasses with various drinks, then spinning to see what gets mixed with what, and who will drink it. I gave them a few suggestions towards what to use for the game, but they wanted to be silly and added in a few other things, like hot sauce, pickle juice, and soy sauce. They also had some milk, cranberry juice, and grape drink. I thought about warning them of the side effects but then decided to let them learn this one on their own. They learned well! Tomorrow we will be up pretty early, I'm sure, but maybe with their stomach aches and being up late tonight, we will get to sleep in a bit later than the last few Christmas mornings. Once up, they will have to wait for my wife and me to get a cup of coffee in us, then they can hand out gifts from Santa and start opening them. We are also going to my mothers-in-law's to fix her a nice Christmas dinner. Normally most of the family would be there, but this year everyone is spending Christmas at home, so she would have been alone; she would have been heartbroken to not have Christmas. Also, she's over 80 and no one knows if she will even get to see another Christmas. Now, time to check on the girls, and hopefully they are both sleeping -- Santa's getting tired. |
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