2007 and other stuff

I had a very nice vacation. Christmas morning was fun, with Emma tearing through her presents and Luke opening one, playing with it intently, and having to be severely coaxed into wrenching himself away to open a new present. But he liked all his presents, when he eventually got around to opening them. ;)

The day after we drove down to Pennsylvania to visit my parents and my little sister, home from college. My parents have bought a new house, which is going to be built this year. I spent so many years in that house. :( I'm a sentimental idiot, and I know it's in a lousy location (note: a house next to a golf course is NOT in a prime location, unless you like broken windows and ball-seeking trespassers) but I can't help being sad that they're selling it. Well, somehow I'll get by. ;)

Anyway, it was good to see my sister and try to predict whether she, like her older sisters, will be married before she graduates from college. (So far, she's had three dates, but that's more than I ever had my freshman year, and I still managed to get married just after my junior year.) While we were down there, we enjoyed the use of my parents' TiVo and watched many a movie. We saw Rainman for the first time since we learned that Luke was autistic. I've been thinking about it a lot ever since.

( Very different this time around )