Amy J. Bennett

Last night my Mom’s Dad and his wife came over as well as my mom’s brother and his family. It was pretty uneventful but nice. I always forget I actually am getting presents when we have these get-togethers. I got some money which I was quite happy with.

Today we are having my Mom’s Mom’s side with her uncle and brother and sister and family. We’ve had a really good time. The funny thing is the highlight of the whole afternoon is my grandmother got a blood pressure checker and every single person got their blood pressure checked. Everything from “Oh, you’re in good shape” to “That is not good. You need to get that checked.” to “Have you been taking her medicine?” It was really quite entertaining. I’m afraid my cousin’s girlfriend was a little confused why we were so entertained. I guess another clue that we’re all getting old…

I got very “Amy” gifts today. I got a cooling mat for my laptop and a DVD/CD cleaner machine and a brown and pink jogging suit that is very cute and then some gift cards.

Tonight we have our last get-together before heading out tomorrow. Heather is already hiding in her bedroom and I’ve reverted back to the laptop. The kids are playing with their toys and the adults are huddled in the kitchen talking. Yep, it’s definitely Christmas.

That basically describes today. As per the norm around here, we got out of the house at lunch at went to eat at our favorite restaurant D’Atri’s to have the best cheese steak on earth.

After that, we ran around town doing some shopping. Part was in historic downtown (see pictures in the more section) and then Mom and Dad went home with the girls and dropped the rest of us off at the mall for some kid-free shopping. Wow. We walked in and I literally didn’t know what to do. I only had one present left to buy today and not a clue what to get so we literally browsed the entire mall. It actually wasn’t as great as I remembered. Except the Cinnabon part. That was still excellent. I did manage to get that last present and it feels GREAT to be done. Five days to spare too.

This evening was low-key. Mom made spaghetti here at the house and Mom and Dad went out shopping. Now we are watching Napoleon Dynamite if that says anything about how exciting our evening is.

Now if you like, Scott and I did a little mini photo shoot while the grandparents attended the children in the toy store and then joined us afterwards…click on More to see.

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After a long day, we made it to Maryland!

This morning was the girls Christmas program at school.  It was very cute but mostly uneventful except that Emma and her friend were getting a little too excited when their color was shown for them to ring their handbells and were called down by their teacher.  I was surprised Emma didn’t just cry on stage but she handled it ok.  The handbells were so sweet and I’ll have to talk to our music director about getting that at our church.

As soon as it was over we headed up the road and after a stop to my uncle’s we got here around 11 I think.  The girls fell asleep on the way from my uncle’s and somehow managed to stay asleep when we put them in bed.

Everyone else is up catching up on tv and Internet.  That’s it for now although I want to write about a quite embarrassing moment today.  Stay tuned.