Well, today has been a rather uneventful day. \u00a0As mentioned in a previous post, our car is somewhat broken at the moment, after having the front-right CV joint break, rendering the car immobile. \u00a0As it turns out, the car has a large hex bolt in the front axle, surrounded by six 12-sided bolts. \u00a0Bloody German engineering!<\/p>\n
Anyway, Jennifer ended up spending the whole day down at the store so Bill could ‘work’ on the car, which apparently didn’t happen as much as we had expected. \u00a0To top things off, Jennifer couldn’t get the last of her Christmas shopping done because we didn’t have a car and we didn’t have enough money to do it in the end. The end result: our non-attendance at the Colwell Family dinner at Grandma Colwell’s place. \u00a0I’m sure there will be plenty of rumor and chatter surrounding the reasons.<\/p>\n
Jaime and her brood made it down for the day. \u00a0This was an unexpected surprise as we had been told they weren’t going to make it down at all, because Stevie had to work. \u00a0It was nice to see the kids having fun and playing with each and the gifts they’d just received. \u00a0Not to forget, its always nice to chill with the family for a little while.<\/p>\n
We ended up giving a couple of small things to a young boy Jennifer met at Bill and Mary’s (aunt and uncle) house who apparently was told by his parents that Santa wasn’t coming and wasn’t going to receive a single gift, of any sort. \u00a0We felt sorry for him because he was there while Jennifer was delivering a few gifts for Star and Autumn, and decided to give him something to lift his spirits a little.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At this point, Christmas day proper is looking like it’s going to be a non-event. \u00a0Oh well. \u00a0Christmas is now so overwhelmingly commercial and a classic example of keeping up with the Jones’s, that the fun, and indeed the very spirit of Christmas, is somewhat lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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