There aren't a whole lot of perks to having your parents live on a completely different side of the country. I mean, it's not something that I lay awake at night worrying about but truth be told the distance makes the holidays matter more because its one of the few times a year that we're all together.
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| December 24, 2011 |
This year was not one of our quieter holidays but it was...to choose a word...wonderful. I never really saw this coming when Erica married Gabe but he brought a level of just plain fun to our holidays that wasn't there before. This year, the fun was mostly centered around professional sports and a certain someones fantasy football triumph.
So Christmas day arrived, the presents were opened, egg sammiches and pecan rolls consumed and we all settled in for a cozy day of cooking, playing with our presents.
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| December 25, 2011 |
Amid the normal hubub of Christmas Day, you know, YouTube watching (surreally including The Lonely Island's
Like a Boss), NRP Click 'n Clack listening and ascent to fantasy football fame recounting, came the banjo.
Nobody knew that my mom has wanted a banjo for years, nobody that is except Papa. So add to our usual Christmas hullabaloo a the da-da-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-dang of a banjo and we have ourselves a hum-dinger of a Kukulka-Blake Christmas.
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| December 24, 2011 |
It was a great weekend, probably made even better by the fact that having us all together only happens once every so often. We watched football, meandered around downtown Minneapolis, saw a Timberwolves game and ate and drank amazing, home cooked food all weekend.
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| December 26, 2011 |
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