December 28th, 2024

Soft-boiled eggs pulled off the stove, buzz down Oxbear’s hair, stack of shiny gifts into the Toyota…

The entirety of family – again – meets together for White Christmas at one of the large neighborhood ponds in St. Peters… photo shoot for about an hour, wandering the rocks and mucky grasses as sun briefly pushes through the week of rain-cloud

Explosion of gifts for all the grandchildren… Nerf, Lord of the Rings, LEGO, starfield projector, so much cash for Gus (including a $100 bill from Z and M)… much loot and laughing…

The sky complete gray again…

Homemade street tortillas prepared by Z and M… chopped grilled chicken, homemade refried black beans, cilantro, white cheese, tortilla chips, etc… delicious…

I even play three rounds of UNO with Puck and D at the card table in the laundry room, because of course “Miss No-Games” isn’t going to say “no” to her son requesting a game of UNO; never

Discussions on cryptocurrency, homeopathy, etc. upstairs after Puck leaves first

Yali and Patience join a large neighborhood walk before we leave after dark

Home for the evening…

Puck happily demonstrates his new cargo pants and all its pockets to me as he leaves for an overnight at J’s, before J leaves for Indiana the following day

Oxbear trucks a wet load of laundry to the laundromat so Puck has a dry work uniform for tomorrow, before returning to St. Peters for more sibling time

Kids to sleep under a field of emerald green stars