Spending time with family in a warm locale

Oscar is up and wants to see if Santa has come by 7:15am on

Eating a delicious dinner

 Christmas morning.  He’s excited by his presents and tears through them in no time.  He enjoys handing out everyone else’s gifts, but then wonders when he gets more gifts.  He wants to know where the “toys” are and we have to 

Holding on to Gabby after being reprimanded

 read the letter from Santa saying that the big toys had to be left in Michigan, which only makes him say that he wants to go home now please.  Good job mom, but at least he said “please”.  We open our presents and clean up, have a great 

teaching Bocci

 Christmas dinner and start to prepare for my brother and nieces and nephew to arrive tomorrow.  We had set up an Air B n B near the house for them to stay at, but the owner isn’t responding to emails.  John calls the day of their 

Gabby and Katherine get to learn Bocci from a master

arrival and we find out that the person is a complete nutcase apparently because he refuses to talk to John, curses at him and hangs up, even though we talked with him a month ago and now it’s going through Air

Learning Bocci

 B n B.  Of course there are no other options around us, so Mom and I are off to buy blankets and sheets for the air mattress that we’re going to have to use so that 9 adults and one child can stay in mom and

A competitive game of tock

  dad’s two bedroom house.  Air B n B reimburses us and acknowledges that there are no other things around us that could suffice and we get $80 toward our next booking.  We also, ironically, hear from the next Air B n B in Miami this same day, so at least that one might live up to expectations.  Or at

Yep, you want a big brother...

 least is waiting for us.  I feel like we now should be happy that the “stable” was at least available to us in South Georgia.  Strike 2 for Air B and B on this trip and now I’m wondering if we’re going to regret the Miami one too.  We’ll see.  But everything with that is forgotten as soon as Scott and his kids arrive.  Oscar is so happy to have his “cousins” here.  The kid has learned about all these family members that he is supposed to have and has a hard time understanding that everyone lives far away from

Your form is all wrong

  us.  He attacks Gabby and tells her she is like one of his “philosophy minors” which are the students of John’s that babysit him.  Well, that happened quick and apparently you only have to look like a student of John’s to earn his undying love.  We have to warn him off from her because he is actually on the verge of smothering her with affection.  But we have a great two days with them here and the asshole that was our host at Air B n B did us a favor really because we got to spend so much more time together.