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Lazy Days

I was pretty industrious before Xmas hit, but I always get lazy in the week between Xmas and New Year's. It just doesn't feel right to do anything productive during that week, and plus I want to play with all of the kids' new toys.

C*dy still hasn't got out that old video game emulator (probably illegal) that I bought him in the mall. Having worked in an arcade for three years of my teenage life, I definitely miss a lot of those old games. Little Ben is enjoying a lot of his things. Today, he brought out his little MP3 player (just a $8 deal that plays 12 different classical music snippets and has three big buttons on the front), hit a tune and started dancing by bobbing and weaving his head around. Very cute. Daniel is going from one toy to the next throughout the day, getting good mileage out of everything.

The one thing C*dy didn't get for Xmas was a good skateboard. He had a skateboard on top of his list, but we just didn't have the budget to buy him the kind of customized ride that I knew he wanted. We bought him a little $10 skateboard at the backwards R, just to throw him a bone and see if he was really serious about wanting a nice skateboard. Well, about eight hours of trying to do tricks with it later, it broke.

But he got the usual $5 here and $10 there from various relatives, and he had saved up enough prior to Xmas that he was able to go today to one of those mall stores that cater to his kind (a completely different culture than anything I remember from when I was growing up, but then I wasn't cool, so ... ). He got a nice custom board and has been trying it out most of the day (after he got his school work done ... since he's flunking a bunch of classes, he doesn't get privileges over the holidays unless he does school work for me or chores for M*chelle every day).

The older two kids are off on a ski trip where it is 10 degrees for a high and wind chill of -35 at night. Ugh, no thanks.

Posted by Observer at December 27, 2007 11:07 PM