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Weekend In Ohio (Christmas, Take 2)

Ohio again!

We thought we'd spend the weekend between Christmas and New Year's with Kendrick's family. The drive was long but uneventful, other than the fact that I inhaled a stunning number of gummi worms, finished The Interestings - one of my favorite books I've read in ages - and started The Husband's Secret (another can't-put-it-down), and fed my son an A+ Parent dinner of Chef Boyardee beef ravioli, consumed with a plastic spoon while standing next to the half & half dispenser in a gas station.

For rest stops, we decided to forego Quaker Steak & Lube this time: our last trip was adventure enough to last us for awhile, and besides, we have a new Cracker Barrel convert over here.

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A Merry Little Christmas

You know, I've always been the kind of person who wants - needs, even - to take advantage of every single moment on a holiday, and what this has historically resulted in is a lot of over-orchestrating. Especially Christmas: I love it so much, and it means so much to me, and so I plan out everything from what to wear to what to eat to what to sing to where to go, because I don't want to waste a single second. And while it's usually fun...it also doesn't always leave a ton of time for things like actual relaxing.

Just being together, whatever that means.

Eating big tubs of Christmas popcorn for lunch because that's what sounds good.

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New York Botanical Garden Holiday Train Show

If you're in the NYC area, this is a really cute, festive thing to do with (and even without) kids. I was expecting the New York Botanical Garden Holiday Train Show (running now through January 12) to involve actual trains - like, large, climb-on-able ones - but what it actually is is room after room of miniature trains winding between replicas of New York-area landmarks (mostly city buildings like the Guggenheim and Penn Station, but I spotted a few buildings from our town, as well) constructed entirely from materials that the artist and his wife gathered in the woods.

I'm not a big "exhibit" person and don't love places like museums (or botanical gardens) generally, but honestly: this was very cool. Definitely not just for kids.

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So…Hmm.

Our bed has arrived, and it is everything that I dreamed. Last night I slept so far away from Kendrick that my isolation and comfort was actually confusing and kept waking me up. We had the exact right amount of middle-of-the-night contact: one of my ankles hooked under his leg, and that is it. (He had migrated across the tundra and on top of me by 7AM, but we'll deal with that problem later.)

Only one issue: I don't know why the camera didn't accurately convey this...but the bed is seriously like four feet tall. It comes up above my waist, and I am not that short of a person; if I were, I would require actual assistance to board the thing.

Anyway, Sleepy's is sending the right frame on Friday - something called "low-profile". Until then, it's all very entertaining and similar to sleeping on top of a mountain.


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