December 21, 2007 Steps: 6900 Temp 35C

Well the boys are done school now till January 15^th. Jennifer had to go to school today to work on report cards and of course she only has a few days off her university classes. At least she has a bit of a break to catch her breath. I told the boys last night that they weren’t to show up before 9:00 AM this morning. We mucked around here for awhile and then took the boys to Lotus to do their Christmas shopping. Asked what they thought would be a good present for Mommy and Daddy and it was running shoes for Daddy and a hat for Mommy. Well we talked them out of that but what we got wasn’t much better. They saw a ping pong set so thought that would be a good thing as there is a ping pong table in the exercise room. Then it was a DVD – The Shaggy Dog. Lastly for Mommy, Oliver chose a black head band with sparkly “diamonds” on it, 2 little frosted pink barrette things and a lovely blue flowery scrunchie for her pony tail. It is so cool to go shopping with kids. We met Gone on the street as we neared the apartment so the kids went home with him for awhile. Oliver was soon back to wrap presents. We had no scotch tape so used medical tape and made some “snowflake” gift cards. Now that took me back a few years. I was having trouble remembering how to do it. Gone came over and cooked supper, much to Tom’s delight. Jennifer showed up after class at 9:00 PM. Oliver was already in bed by then and once again Nicky said he’d stay “tomorrow”.